Bernhard Eckstein
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Born | Zwochau, Germany | 21 August 1935||||||||
Died | 10 November 2017 | (aged 82)||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||
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Sport | Cycling | ||||||||
Club | SC DHfK, Leipzig | ||||||||
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Bernhard Eckstein (21 August 1935 – 10 November 2017) was a German cyclist. In 1960, he won the road race at the world championships and finished in 22nd place in the road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics. During his career he won six one-day races, four in 1958, one in 1960 (the Manx Trophy in the amateurs division), and one in 1966.
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- 1935 births
- 2017 deaths
- People from Nordsachsen
- Sportspeople from the Province of Saxony
- German male cyclists
- Cyclists from Saxony
- Olympic cyclists for the United Team of Germany
- Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- East German male cyclists
- SC DHfK Leipzig athletes
- People from Bezirk Leipzig
- German cycling biography stubs