Udo Hempel Explained

Udo Hempel
Fullname:Udo Hempel
Birth Date:3 November 1946
Birth Place:Düsseldorf, Allied-occupied Germany
Discipline:Track
Role:Rider
Proyears1:1973 - 1974
Proteam1:Unknown
Proyears2:1975
Proteam2:Rokado
Proyears3:1976
Proteam3:Maes-Rokado
Proyears4:1977 - 1982
Proteam4:Quelle-Mars
Proyears5:1983
Proteam5:A.B.C.

Udo Hempel (born 3 November 1946) is a retired road and track cyclist from West Germany, who won the gold medal in the Men's 4.000 Team Pursuit at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, alongside Günther Schumacher, Jürgen Colombo, and Günter Haritz. In the 1968 Summer Olympics, he had already won silver in the same event.[1] He was a professional cyclist from 1973 to 1983, whose best results were on the track.

Hempel was also part of the West German team that won the gold medal in the amateur 4 km pursuit world championship in Leicester in 1970.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/udo-hempel-1.html. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418103019/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/udo-hempel-1.html. dead. 2020-04-18.