Andreas Petermann (born 7 June 1957) is a retired German cyclist. He won a gold medal in the 100 km team time trial at the

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. Next year he competed for

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at the

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in the individual road race and finished in tenth place. In 1979, he finished in second place in the

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. He won the

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in 1980 and 1981 and the

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in 1983. After retirement from competitions, he worked as a college lecturer in cycling in Leipzig. Between 1986 and 1994 he was involved in research on training of track cyclists. From 1995 to 2000 he was a head coach of the German Triathlon Union in the areas of performance diagnostics and training analysis. He was also responsible for the junior squad. From 2000 he worked with various professional cycling teams such as Coast, Bianchi and Wiesenhof. Between 2008 and 2011 he was the head coach in track cycling for the

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1957 births Living people Olympic cyclists for East Germany Cyclists at the 1980 Summer Olympics East German male cyclists German male cyclists People from Greiz Cyclists from Thuringia UCI Road World Champions (elite men) People from Bezirk Gera {{Germany-cycling-bio-stub