Klaus Bugdahl

Klaus Bugdahl (24 November 1934 to August 2023) was a German cyclist who raced on both the road and the track between 1954 and 1978. On the road he won the West German National Road Race in 1958. His greater success came on the track, where he won several medals at European championships, mostly in the madison event, and became one of the most prolific six-day racers of his era. He competed in 228 six-day races and won 37 of them, nearly all in his native Germany, which places him among the ten most successful riders in that form of racing. He completed his last six-day race in Milan in 1978 at the age of 43. His racing partners over the years included Eddy Merckx, Patrick Sercu, Rolf Wolfshohl, Rudi Altig, Dieter Kemper and Rik Van Steenbergen. Bugdahl died in August 2023 at the age of 88.