Günther Schumacher

Günther Schumacher is a German track cyclist and road racer, born on 27 June 1949 in Rostock, in what was then the Soviet occupation zone of Germany, who represented West Germany at two Summer Olympics. He rode in the men's team pursuit at the 1972 Games in Munich and again at the 1976 Games in Montreal, and the West German pursuit team won the gold medal both times, so that he defended an Olympic title in the same event. He also took pursuit world championship gold medals in the 1970s and won ten West German national titles. He turned professional in 1977 and rode until the early 1980s, listed with the squads Citizen and Kotter, and afterwards worked as a sports teacher and cycling coach and ran a bicycle shop in his home town of Kaarst.