Rolf Wolfshohl
Wolfshohl in 2008
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| Full name | Rolf Wolfshohl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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27 December 1938 (age 78) Germany |
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| Discipline | Cyclo-cross Road |
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| Role | Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1957–1959 | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1960–1962 | Rapha-Gitane | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1963–1964 | Peugeot-BP | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1965–1966 | Mercier-BP-Hutchsinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1969 | Bic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1970–1971 | Fagor-Mercier | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972 | Rokado | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973–1974 | Ho-Ra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1975 | Rokado | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| World Cyclo-cross champion (1960, 1961 & 1963) Vuelta a España 1965 West German cyclo-cross champion (1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 & 1973) West German Road Race champion (1963, 1968) |
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Rolf Wolfshohl (born 27 December 1938) is a former professional road bicycle racing and cyclo-cross racing cyclist from Germany. Wolfshohl is best known in cyclo-cross for winning the world championship three times, and in road racing for winning the 1965 Vuelta a España. He won the German National Road Race in 1968.
Wolfshohl started competing in cycling from 1953 at the age of 15 and won his first race in 1954. In 1956 Wolfshohl became Junior Champion of West Germany. The head of the velodrome in Dortmund, Otto Wederlin, wanted to turn Wolfshohl into a great six day track rider but Wolfshohl preferred cyclo-cross and road racing. Between 1957 and 1973, Wolfshohl took part fifteen times in the World Cyclo-Cross Championships where he won twelve medals. Three of these were gold. The first time that he reached the podium in the World championships of cyclo-cross was the bronze medal in 1958 behind the Frenchman André Dufraisse and the Italian Amerigo Severini.
In 1960 and at the age of 21, he won the rainbow jersey in Tolosa, Spain. Initially Italian Renato Longo and Swiss Arnold Hungerbühler took a small lead in the race but halfway into the race, Wolfshohl bridged to the pair and then got away to win the gold medal. A year later he prolonged his title in Hanover. The course was said to have been made or designed especially for Wolfshohl. The UCI instructed that the course be made tougher but Wolfshohl was in great form and spent most of the race alone at the front. Longo came back to Wolfshohl in the second last lap but with an acceleration Wolfshohl dropped the Italian. In 1962 Wolfshohl was sick and could not finish the World Championship race.
In 1963 in Calais in France, Wolfshohl won his third and final world cyclo-cross title. In the first lap, Wolfshohl created a gap and got away to win the race. In the following years Wolfshohl focused more on road racing, using cyclo-cross in the winter. He competed and won medals in the World Championships but never the gold. In 1968 Wolfshohl had to return his silver medal at the Cyclo-cross World Championships because of a positive doping test.
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