Bernd Drogan

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Personal information
Born (1955-10-26) 26 October 1955
Bohsdorf, Germany
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb)
Team information
Medal record
Competitor for  East Germany
Olympic Games
Silver 1980 Moscow Team time trial
Friendship Games
Gold 1984 Schleiz Road race, team
World Championships
Gold 1979 Valkenburg Team time trial
Bronze 1979 Valkenburg Amateur road race
Gold 1981 Prague Team time trial
Gold 1982 Goodwood Amateur road race

Bernd Drogan (born 26 October 1955) is a retired German cyclist who was active between 1971 and 1987. In 1979 he won a gold and a bronze medal in the road race at the World Cycling Championships, with the German team and individually.[1] Next year he won a silver medal in the 100 km team time trial at the 1980 Summer Olympics.[2]

He won a gold medal in the 100 km team time trial at the 1981 UCI Road World Championships,[3] and next year finished first in the individual road race. He missed the 1984 Summer Olympics due to their boycott by East Germany and competed at the Friendship Games instead, winning a gold medals in the road race.[4]

During his career, Drogan won several major road races, including those of Circuit de la Sarthe (1978), Around the Hainleite (1982) and Tour de Slovaquie (1983).[3] He was twice chosen the German Sportspersonality of the Year, in 1979 and 1982. He also had to cope with many setbacks: in 1975 he had blood poisoning after a fall at the national championships. In 1978, he broke a collarbone just before the start of the Peace Race. He also given up several major races due to bad falls on the road.[5]

After retiring from competitions in 1985 he worked as a cycling coach and an accountant.

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  1. ↑ Bernd Drogan. radsportseiten.net
  2. ↑ Bernd Drogan. sports-reference.com
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bernd Drogan. memoire-du-cyclisme.net
  4. ↑ Chmielewski, Zbigniew; et al. (1987) Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984. Sarajewo, Los Angeles. Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. pp. 193–195; 212–213. ISBN 83-217-2610-0
  5. ↑ Radsport, 16 January 1985

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