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Gregor Braun (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʁeːɡoːɐ̯ ˈbʁaʊ̯n] ; born 31 December 1955) is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Germany, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1989 and who became a multiple Olympic Gold medaillist and track world champion. his profession was a locksmith.[1]
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| Born | 31 December 1955 Neustadt an der Weinstraße, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1977–1979 | Peugeot–Esso–Michelin | |||||||||||||||||
| 1980 | Sanson–Campagnolo | |||||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Famcucine–Campagnolo | |||||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Capri Sonne–Campagnolo–Merckx | |||||||||||||||||
| 1983 | Vivi–Benotto | |||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | La Redoute | |||||||||||||||||
| 1985 | Ariostea–Oece | |||||||||||||||||
| 1986 | Murella–Fanini | |||||||||||||||||
| 1987 | AD Renting–Fangio–IOC–MBK | |||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Boccaccio Life–La William | |||||||||||||||||
| 1989 | Titanbonifica–Benotto | |||||||||||||||||
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He represented West Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, where he won the gold medal in both the men's individual pursuit and in the team pursuit with Peter Vonhof, Hans Lutz and Günther Schumacher, corroborating their win a year before, also as amateurs, with capturing the gold in the men's team pursuit in the 1975 world championships in Montreal.[2] The West German Olympic track team for 1976 was managed by former track champion Gustav Kilian. In 1977 Braun turned professional, riding mostly on the road and proving himself a capable rider on the road by winning, inter alia, the Giro di Sardegna (1983, 1980), the 14th stage of the 1983 Giro d'Italia, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (1982), the Tre Valli Varesine (1981), Milano–Vignola (1981), the Deutschland Tour (1980), the Tour d'Indre-et-Loire (1979), the then Rund um den Henninger-Turm, three national road championships (1983, 1980, 1978) and ending on the podium in the 1982 Paris–Roubaix, the 1982 Amstel Gold Race and the 1978 Tour of Flanders.
On the track as a professional, Braun became world champion in the (then) 5k pursuit in the 1977 world championships and the 1978 track world championships and won bronze in this discipline in 1985. Furthermore, he won the 1979 European championships madison (with Patrick Sercu). Additionally, Braun started in 44 (mostly German) six-day races, 4 to 6 per season, resulting in 11 wins, with Patrick Sercu (4 wins), René Pijnen (4×), Dietrich Thurau (2×) and Gert Frank (1×) and proving himself very well able to win these races when coupled with a top six-days rider.
Road
- 1974
- 2nd Rund um Düren
- 1977
- 2nd Overall Étoile des Espoirs
- 1st Prologue (TTT)
- 2nd Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
- 6th Grand Prix des Nations
- 9th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Stage 2a
- 10th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 1978
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 1st Prologue Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Prologue (TTT) Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
- 3rd Tour of Flanders
- 6th Critérium des As
- 7th Amstel Gold Race
- 10th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 3
- 1979
- 1st
Overall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire - 1st Stage 4 Tour Méditerranéen
- 3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 9th Grand Prix des Nations
- 1980
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Overall Deutschland Tour
- 1st
Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stage 2b (ITT)
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 2b Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
- 2nd Overall Cronostaffetta (TTT)
- 1st Stage 1c (ITT)
- 3rd Nice–Alassio
- 5th Trofeo Pantalica
- 1981
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 1st Milano–Vignola
- 1st Flèche Hesbignonne
- 2nd GP Union Dortmund
- 3rd Overall Ruota d'Oro
- 4th Gent–Wevelgem
- 1982
- 1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix
- 3rd Amstel Gold Race
- 5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 5
- 5th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 5th Paris–Brussels
- 10th Brabantse Pijl
- 10th Gent–Wevelgem
- 1983
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia
- 2nd Trofeo Laigueglia
- 6th Gent–Wevelgem
- 10th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1984
- 5th Paris–Roubaix
- 7th Tour of Flanders
- 1985
- 2nd Firenze–Pistoia
- 1987
- 1st Stage 1a (ITT) Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
Track
- 1973
- National Junior Track Championships
- 1st Madison
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2nd
Individual pursuit, European Junior Track Championships - 1975
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI Amateur Track World Championships - National Amateur Track Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Madison
- 1st
- 1976
- Olympic Games
- 1st
Individual pursuit - 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- National Amateur Track Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Madison
- 1st
- 1977
- 1st Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 1978
- 1st Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 1st
Madison (with Patrick Sercu), European Track Championships - 1st Six Days of Munich (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1979
- 1st Six Days of Cologne (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Frankfurt (with René Pijnen)
- 1980
- 1st Six Days of Dortmund (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Berlin (with Patrick Sercu)
- 1st Six Days of Frankfurt (with René Pijnen)
- 1981
- 1st Six Days of Berlin (with Dietrich Thurau)
- 1st Six Days of Frankfurt (with Dietrich Thurau)
- 1st Six Days of Bremen (with René Pijnen)
- 1983
- 1st Madison (with Henry Rinklin), National Track Championships
- 1st Six Days of Bremen (with René Pijnen)
- 1984
- 1st Six Days of Stuttgart (with Gert Frank)
- 1985
- 3rd
Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
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