Greatest successes on the track
Ex-cycling star Sigi Renz is dead
03.02.2025 – 1:06 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
The Munich team turned 86. In the 1960s and 1970s, Sigi Renz was particularly part of the German top.
The German Cycling Association German Cycling mourns the loss of Sigi Renz. The most successful German railway cyclist of the 1960s and 1970s died, according to a message published on Monday, on Saturday from the consequences of cancer at the age of 86 in the Regensburg Clinic.
Between 1963 and 1972, Renz started in 158 six days, of which he won 23, most of them with Rudi Altig, Klaus Bugdahl and Wolfgang Schulze. The Munich native celebrated his greatest successes on the train, but in 1961 he also took part in the World Cup and the Tour de France and also became German road champion in 1963. At the Munich six -day race, Renz, who was also the owner of a cycling business, acted as a sporting director between 1980 and 2009.