Matthias Wiegand
Appearance
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Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Plauen, East Germany | 22 April 1954||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Matthias Wiegand (born 22 April 1954) is a retired East German track cyclist. He had his best achievements in the 4000 m team pursuit. In this discipline he won a silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics, as well as two gold medals at the world championships in 1977 and 1978;[1] his team finished in fourth place at the 1976 Summer Olympics.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Matthias Wiegand. cyclingarchives.com
- ^ Matthias Wiegand. sports-reference.com
Categories:
- 1954 births
- Living people
- East German male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for East Germany
- Cyclists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
- Sportspeople from Plauen
- Cyclists from Saxony
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
- German cycling Olympic medalist stubs