Udo Hempel (born 3 November 1946) is a retired

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and

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 wa ...

from

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, who won the gold medal in the Men's 4.000 Team Pursuit at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as Munich 1972 (; ), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the ...

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, alongside

Günther Schumacher Günther Schumacher (born 27 June 1949) is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer born in East Germany, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1984. He twice represented West Germany at the Summer Olympics (1972 and 1976), and won ...

, Jürgen Colombo, and Günter Haritz. In the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Mexico 1968 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico. These were the first Ol ...

, he had already won silver in the same event. He was a professional cyclist from 1973 to 1983, whose best results were on the track. Hempel was also part of the West German team that won the gold medal in the amateur 4 km pursuit world championship in Leicester in 1970.

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* 1946 births Living people Sportspeople from Düsseldorf Cyclists from Düsseldorf (region) German track cyclists German male cyclists Cyclists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for West Germany West German male cyclists Olympic gold medalists for West Germany Olympic silver medalists for West Germany Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics {{Germany-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub