Reimund Dietzen
Personal information | |
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Full name | Reimund Dietzen |
Born | (1959-05-29) 29 May 1959 (age 65) Trier, Germany |
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Directeur sportif |
Rider type | All-rounder |
Professional teams | |
1982 | Puch - Eorotex - Campagnolo |
1983–1990 | Teka |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours One-day races and Classics
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Reimund Dietzen sometimes written Raimund Dietzen (born 29 May 1959 in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a retired road and cyclo-cross cyclist from Germany, who was a professional rider from 1982 to 1990.
Cycling career
Dietzen was a successful amateur winning the German cyclo-cross championship in 1980 and 1981 as well as winning in road races. He turned professional with the Swiss team Puch in 1982. He won the cyclo-cross race the Grand Prix Jean Bausch-Pierre Kellner that year. The following year he joined a Spanish cycling team Teka with whom he would stay with for the rest of his career. In his first year with his new team he won the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. The following year he became the champion of Germany in the road race and cyclo-cross as well his first stage victory in the Vuelta a España. He won the stage to the Lagos de Covadonga which is a very steep climb and a prestigious stage to win. He would finish that year's edition of the Vuelta third overall.[1] The following year he was again cyclo-cross champion as well as the winner of the Vuelta a Cantabria. In 1986 he was again German road champion and won a second stage in the 1986 Vuelta a España. In 1987 he wore the leader's jersey in the 1987 Vuelta a España for five days before losing it to Herrera and then finishing the race second overall to Luis Herrera of Colombia. Dietzen finished the 1988 Vuelta a España second overall, this time to Sean Kelly of Ireland. In the 1989 Vuelta a España, Dietzen won a stage but several days later he crashed. He had ridden into a tunnel which was not illuminated and crashed, suffering career-ending injuries. He was only 30 years of age when the following year he stopped as a professional after not recovering. Seventeen years later, the Supreme Court of Spain ordered the organisers of the Vuelta a España to pay damages to Dietzen.[2] Dietzen obtained nearly all of his success in Spanish races[3] with wins in Vuelta a La Rioja, Vuelta a Castilla y León, the Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme and he finished in the top 10 of every Vuelta a España between 1984-1988, three of which were on the podium.
Post-cycling career
From 2003, Dietzen was a directeur sportif with the now-defunct Team Gerolsteiner. He lives in Spain.
Career achievements
Major results
- Cyclo-cross
- 1981–1982
- 1st Grand Prix Jean Bausch-Pierre Kellner
- 2nd National Championships
- 1983–1984
- 1st National Championships
- 1984–1985
- 1st National Championships
- Road
- 1981
- Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
- 1st Stages 3 & 4
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
- 1982
- 1st Trofeo Luis Puig
- 7th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1983
- 1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 1st Stage 4
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st Prologue
- 3rd Clásica de San Sebastián
- 1984
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta Asturias
- 2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 2nd Clásica de San Sebastián
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 12
- 3rd Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
- 1985
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Cantabria
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 2nd Overall Vuelta Asturias
- 3rd Overall Tour of Galicia
- 7th Overall Vuelta a España
- 1986
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Cantabria
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Stage 4a Vuelta a Murcia
- 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Aragón
- 4th Overall Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 12
- 7th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 7th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1987
- 1st Overall Vuelta a La Rioja
- 1st Prologue
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a España
- 2nd Subida al Naranco
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Aragón
- 1988
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a España
- 3rd Subida al Naranco
- 1989
- 1st Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st Stage 9 Vuelta a España
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
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Vuelta a España | 40 | DNF | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | DNF |
Giro d'Italia | Did not contest during his career | |||||||
Tour de France | DNF | — | 64 | — | DNF | 90 | 83 | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
External links
- Official site
- Profile on Team Gerolsteiner website
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