Gustav-Adolf Schur

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Gustav-Adolf Schur was a prominent East German road cyclist, best known as a multiple world champion and national sports hero during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf East German sportsperson
human
road cyclist
awardReceived UCI Road World Championships road race bronze medal 1957
UCI Road World Championships road race gold medal 1958
UCI Road World Championships road race gold medal 1959
UCI Road World Championships road race silver medal 1956
countryOfCitizenship East Germany
Germany
dateOfBirth 1931-02-23
discipline road cycling
ethnicGroup German
familyName Schur
givenName Gustav-Adolf
hasHonorificTitle Honoured Master of Sports of the GDR
languageSpoken German
memberOfPoliticalParty Party of Democratic Socialism
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
The Left (Germany)
memberOfSportsTeam SC DHfK Leipzig
SG Dynamo Magdeburg
nativeLanguage German
nickname Täve
notableAchievement first German cyclist to win the UCI Road World Championships road race
multiple winner of the Peace Race
overall Peace Race winner 1955
overall Peace Race winner 1959
stage wins in the Peace Race
notableFor being a national sports hero in East Germany
success in international amateur road cycling
symbol of East German sports culture in the 1950s and 1960s
notableWork victory at 1958 UCI Road World Championships road race
victory at 1959 UCI Road World Championships road race
occupation cyclist
politician
participatedIn Peace Race
UCI Road World Championships
placeOfBirth Heyrothsberge
Saxony-Anhalt
positionHeld member of the Bundestag
member of the Volkskammer
representedBy East Germany national cycling team
residence Magdeburg
sexOrGender male
sport cycling

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