Gregor Braun

Gregor Braun

Personal information
Born	(1955-12-31) 31 December 1955 Neustadt an der Weinstraße, West Germany
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road Track
Role	Rider
Professional teams
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
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (1973) Stage races Deutschland Tour (1980) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1978, 1980, 1983) Rund um den Henninger Turm (1978) Tre Valli Varesine (1981) Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (1982)
Medal record Men's cycling Representing West Germany Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Individual Pursuit 1976 Montreal Team Pursuit

Gregor Braun (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʁeːɡoːɐ̯ ˈbʁaʊn] ; 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.

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. 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.

Major results

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

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

1976

Olympic Games

1st Individual pursuit

1st Team pursuit

National Amateur Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

1st Madison

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

External links

• Gregor Braun at Cycling Archives (archive)
• Gregor Braun at ProCyclingStats
• Gregor Braun at CycleBase
• Gregor Braun at Olympics.com
• Gregor Braun at Olympedia