Jürgen Colombo (born 2 September 1949) is a retired
track cyclist
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles.
History
Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it ...
from
West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...
, who won the gold medal in the
Men's 4000m Team Pursuit at the
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972 ...
in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
, alongside
Günther Schumacher,
Günter Haritz, and
Udo Hempel.
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1949 births
Living people
German male cyclists
Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists of West Germany
Olympic gold medalists for West Germany
People from Zielona Góra
Sportspeople from Lubusz Voivodeship
Olympic medalists in cycling
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
German track cyclists
20th-century German people
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