Fredy Schmidtke (1 July 1961 – 1 December 2017) was a German track cyclist. He won a gold medal in the 1000 metres time trial at the 1984 Summer Olympics and finished eighth in the sprint.[1]
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Born | Worringen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, West Germany | 1 July 1961||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 1 December 2017 Dormagen | (aged 56)||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Track | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Schmidtke died of a heart attack on 1 December 2017, at the age of 56.[2]