Falk Boden (born 20 January 1960) is a retired German cyclist. He had his best achievements in the 100 km team time trial, in which he won a silver medal for

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at the

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, as well as three gold and one silver medals at the world championships in 1979, 1981, 1989 and 1990. He missed the

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due to their boycott by East Germany and competed in the

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instead, winning a gold medal. He won the German National Road Race in 1991. upleft, Boden in 1981

Major results

Sources: ;1978 : 1st Overall

Peace Race Juniors The Peace Race Juniors, officially known as the Course de la Paix Juniors, is a junior (ages 17-18) multi-day cycling race held annually in the Czech Republic. It is part of the UCI Junior Nations' Cup, and is the junior version of the Peace Race ...

: 1st Overall Cottbuser Juniors ;1979 : 7th Overall DDR-Rundfahrt ;1980 : 1st Overall DDR-Rundfahrt ::1st Prologue ( TTT) & Stage 3 : 3rd East German Road race championships : 7th Overall

Région Pays de la Loire Tour The Région Pays de la Loire Tour, formerly Circuit de la Sarthe-Pays de la Loire, () is an early-season short road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on t ...

;1981 : 2nd East German Road race championships : 3rd Overall Sealink International Grand Prix ::1st Prologue, Stages 3 & 5 ;1982 : 1st Stage 4

Okolo Slovenska Okolo Slovenska (; ) is an annual road cycling stage race in Slovakia. Founded in 1954, since 2017 it has been rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is a stage race that usually includes five or more stages. History Okolo Slovenska ...

: 2nd Overall

Tour du Loir-et-Cher The Tour du Loir-et-Cher is a cycling stage race that takes place in the Loir-et-Cher region of France. The race traditionally starts and finishes in the capital of Blois. Since at least 2009, the final stage has consisted of a 12-lap circuit ra ...

: 5th Overall

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir () is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independents. Felice Gimondi, Joo ...

::1st Stage 2 ( TTT) : 7th Road race Amateur World Championships ;1983 : 1st Overall

Peace Race The Peace Race (, , , (), , , , ) is a cycling race that was established as the largest event in Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Since 2013, it has been run as one of the most prestigious stage races for national U23 teams. Histo ...

: 1st Stages 4 & 8

Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt The International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt was a stage race, multi-stage road bicycle racing, road bicycle race held in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. In the years from 1966 to 2007, it was considered one of the biggest sporting events in Rhine ...

: 2nd Overall

Tour du Maroc Tour du Maroc is the most important road bicycle race in the African state of Morocco. The editions 1957–1993 were reserved to amateurs. Since 2006, it is organized as a 2.2 event on the UCI Africa Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a seri ...

: 6th Overall

Giro delle Regioni The Giro delle Regioni was a multi-day cycling race held annually in Italy. It is part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.ncup, meaning it was part of the UCI Under 23 Nations' Cup The UCI Under 23 Nations' Cup is an annual, season-long competitio ...

: 7th Overall DDR-Rundfahrt ::1st Stage 3 : 8th Road race Amateur World Championships ;1984 : 1st Overall DDR-Rundfahrt ::1st Stage 7 : 2nd Overall

Olympia's Tour The Olympia's Tour is a cycling stage race held in the Netherlands. History A.S.C. Olympia was founded in Amsterdam on 27 November 1898. It ran one-day races but wanted a race through all the Netherlands. The first Olympia's Tour was in 1909, wi ...

: 3rd East German Road race championships : 4th Overall

Tour de Normandie Tour de Normandie is a road bicycle race held annually in the region of Normandy, France. The race started in 1939, but was not held in the periods of 1940–1955 and 1960–1980. It was originally a race for amateurs, but was opened for professi ...

::1st Stage 5 ;1985 (1 Pro win) : 1st Stage 7

Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium in the end of July. Between 1974 and 1995 it was reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a ...

: 4th Overall

: 10th Overall DDR-Rundfahrt ;1987 (2) : 5th Overall DDR-Rundfahrt : 8th Overall

::1st Stages 2 & 3 ( TTT) : 8th Overall

Tour of Sweden The Tour of Sweden (or Postgirot Open) was an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern ...

;1988 (1) : 1st Stage 5

Tour du Vaucluse The Tour du Vaucluse ''(Tour of the Vaucluse)'' is a former cycling race, held in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. From 1923 until 1960 it was organized as a one-day race finishing in Cavaillon Cav ...

: 1st Stage 5

Tour of Austria The Tour of Austria () is a stage race, stage cycling race held in Austria. From 1949 to 1995 it was a race for amateur cyclists, turning into a professional event in 1996. In 2005 and 2006 it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour ...

: 2nd East German Road race championships : 3rd Overall

Tour d'Algérie The Tour d'Algérie is an annual multi-day road cycling race held in Algeria. It has been held as a 2.2 category event on UCI Africa Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 ...

;1989 (1) : 1st Overall

Regio-Tour The Regio-Tour is a multi-stage road bicycle race held between France, Switzerland and Germany. It was first held in 1985 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Famous riders like Laurent Brochard, Jan Ullrich, ...

: 1st Prologue

: 5th Overall

::1st Stages 8 & 9 : 7th Overall

: 10th

Grand Prix de Waregem The Grand Prix Waregem was a cycling race held annually in Belgium. It was part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale ...

;1990 : 4th Overall

: 7th Road race Amateur World Championships : 9th Overall

Troféu Joaquim Agostinho The Grande Prémio Internacional de Torres Vedras – Troféu Joaquim Agostinho is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in the Torres Vedras, Portugal. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Cont ...

;1991 : 1st Road race national championships : 4th

Grand Prix de la Libération The Grand Prix de la Libération was an annual road cycling race in the Netherlands that took place in the form of a team time trial from 1988 until 1991. It was on the calendar of the UCI Road World Cup The UCI Road World Cup was a season-long ...

: 8th

Züri-Metzgete Züri-Metzgete (Zürich German; ; ) was a European Classic cycle races, Classic cycle race held annually in Zürich, Switzerland, and continued as a non-professional mass participation event from 2007 until 2014. It was a race with a long history ...

: 9th Paris-Camembert : 9th GP Montreal ;1993 : 3rd

Coca-Cola Trophy The Coca-Cola Trophy was a series of criterium cycling races held annually throughout Germany from 1979 to 2000. The competition consisted of up to eight races contested in different German cities, generally located in the south of the country such ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boden, Falk 1960 births Living people People from Elsterwerda Sportspeople from Bezirk Cottbus East German male cyclists German male cyclists Cyclists from Brandenburg Olympic cyclists for East Germany Cyclists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in cycling Olympic silver medalists for East Germany German cycling road race champions UCI Road World Champions (elite men) Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold