# Gregor Braun

Gregor Braun (German pronunciation: ; born 31 December 1955) is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Germany, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1989 and who became a multiple Olympic Gold medaillist and track world champion. his profession was a locksmith.
He represented West Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, where he won the gold medal in both the men's individual pursuit and in the team pursuit with Peter Vonhof, Hans Lutz and Günther Schumacher, corroborating their win a year before, also as amateurs, with capturing the gold in the men's team pursuit in the 1975 world championships in Montreal. The West German Olympic track team for 1976 was managed by former track champion Gustav Kilian. In 1977 Braun turned professional, riding mostly on the road and proving himself a capable rider on the road by winning, inter alia, the Giro di Sardegna (1983, 1980), the 14th stage of the 1983 Giro d'Italia, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (1982), the Tre Valli Varesine (1981), Milano–Vignola (1981), the Deutschland Tour (1980), the Tour d'Indre-et-Loire (1979), the then Rund um den Henninger-Turm, three national road championships (1983, 1980, 1978) and ending on the podium in the 1982 Paris–Roubaix, the 1982 Amstel Gold Race and the 1978 Tour of Flanders.
On the track as a professional, Braun became world champion in the (then) 5k pursuit in the 1977 world championships and the 1978 track world championships and won bronze in this discipline in 1985. Furthermore, he won the 1979 European championships madison (with Patrick Sercu). Additionally, Braun started in 44 (mostly German) six-day races, 4 to 6 per season, resulting in 11 wins, with Patrick Sercu (4 wins), René Pijnen (4×), Dietrich Thurau (2×) and Gert Frank (1×) and proving himself very well able to win these races when coupled with a top six-days rider.

## Major results
### Road
#### 1974

    2nd Rund um Düren

#### 1977

    2nd Overall Étoile des Espoirs
       1st Prologue (TTT)
    2nd Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
    6th Grand Prix des Nations
    9th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
       1st Stage 2a
    10th Rund um den Henninger Turm

#### 1978

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Rund um den Henninger Turm
    1st Prologue Tour Méditerranéen
    1st Prologue (TTT) Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
    3rd Tour of Flanders
    6th Critérium des As
    7th Amstel Gold Race
    10th Overall Tour of Belgium
       1st Stage 3

#### 1979

    1st Overall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
    1st Stage 4 Tour Méditerranéen
    3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm
    4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
    9th Grand Prix des Nations

#### 1980

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Deutschland Tour
    1st Overall Giro di Sardegna
       1st Stage 2b (ITT)
    1st Stage 5 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
    1st Stage 2b Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
    2nd Overall Cronostaffetta (TTT)
       1st Stage 1c (ITT)
    3rd Nice–Alassio
    5th Trofeo Pantalica

#### 1981

    1st Tre Valli Varesine
    1st Milano–Vignola
    1st Flèche Hesbignonne
    2nd GP Union Dortmund
    3rd Overall Ruota d'Oro
    4th Gent–Wevelgem

#### 1982

    1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    3rd Paris–Roubaix
    3rd Amstel Gold Race
    5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
       1st Stage 5
    5th Rund um den Henninger Turm
    5th Paris–Brussels
    10th Brabantse Pijl
    10th Gent–Wevelgem

#### 1983

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Giro di Sardegna
    1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia
    2nd Trofeo Laigueglia
    6th Gent–Wevelgem
    10th Overall Three Days of De Panne

#### 1984

    5th Paris–Roubaix
    7th Tour of Flanders

#### 1985

    2nd Firenze–Pistoia

#### 1987

    1st Stage 1a (ITT) Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme

### Track
#### 1973

    National Junior Track Championships
       1st Madison
       1st Individual pursuit
    2nd Individual pursuit, European Junior Track Championships

#### 1975

    1st Team pursuit, UCI Amateur Track World Championships
    National Amateur Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Madison

#### 1976

    Olympic Games
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit
    National Amateur Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Madison

#### 1977

    1st Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships

#### 1978

    1st Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
    1st Madison (with Patrick Sercu), European Track Championships
    1st Six Days of Munich (with Patrick Sercu)

#### 1979

    1st Six Days of Cologne (with Patrick Sercu)
    1st Six Days of Frankfurt (with René Pijnen)

#### 1980

    1st Six Days of Dortmund (with Patrick Sercu)
    1st Six Days of Berlin (with Patrick Sercu)
    1st Six Days of Frankfurt (with René Pijnen)

#### 1981

    1st Six Days of Berlin (with Dietrich Thurau)
    1st Six Days of Frankfurt (with Dietrich Thurau)
    1st Six Days of Bremen (with René Pijnen)

#### 1983

    1st Madison (with Henry Rinklin), National Track Championships
    1st Six Days of Bremen (with René Pijnen)

#### 1984

    1st Six Days of Stuttgart (with Gert Frank)

#### 1985

    3rd Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships