Steffen Blochwitz (born 8 September 1967) is a German former

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and

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. He was part of the East German team that won a silver medal in the 4000 m team pursuit and the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

. Between 1986 and 1989 he won four medals in the individual and team pursuit at world championships. As a road racer, he won two stages of the

Olympia's Tour The Olympia's Tour is a cycling stage race held in the Netherlands. History A.S.C. Olympia was founded in Amsterdam on 27 November 1898. It ran one-day races but wanted a race through all the Netherlands. The first Olympia's Tour was in 1909, wi ...

in 1987 and one in 1989. He won the

Sachsen Tour The Sachsen Tour is a multi-stage road bicycle race held in the region of Saxony, Germany. It was first held in 1985 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicyc ...

in 1991, OZ Wielerweekend in 1993 and

Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 was a bicycle road race held annually in the German state of Thuringia. It was a stage race reserved to athletes under the age of 23. Since 2005, it was organized as a 2.2U event on the UCI Europe Tour. After the 201 ...

in 1995.

Major results

;1987 : 1st Stages 5b (

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) & 6

;1988 : 1st Stages 1b (ITT) & 7b (ITT) Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt ;1989 : 1st Prologue (ITT)

;1991 : 1st Overall

;1993 : 1st Overall OZ Wielerweekend ::1st Stage 2 ;1994 : 3rd Overall

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;1995 : 1st Overall

Thüringen Rundfahrt Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and larg ...

: 1st Stage 6 Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt ;1997 : 1st Stage 9

Peace Race The Peace Race (german: Friedensfahrt, cs, Závod míru, sk, Preteky mieru, russian: Велогонка Мира (), pl, Wyścig Pokoju , french: Course de la Paix, it, Corsa della Pace, ro, Cursa Păcii) was an annual multiple stage bicycl ...

References

1967 births Living people People from Herzberg (Elster) People from Bezirk Cottbus German male cyclists East German male cyclists Cyclists from Brandenburg Olympic cyclists for East Germany Olympic silver medalists for East Germany Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver {{Germany-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub