Dieter Wiedemann

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Dieter Wiedemann
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Born (1941-06-17) 17 June 1941 (age 84)
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Dieter Wiedemann (born 17 June 1941) is a German racing cyclist. [1] He rode in the 1967 Tour de France. [2] [3] He was the subject of a book by Herbie Sykes, The Race Against the Stasi (2013), in which Sykes writes about Wiedemann's sporting career and defection from East to West Germany. [4] [5]

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  1. ↑ "Dieter Wiedemann". Cycling Archives. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  2. ↑ "Tour de France 1967". Cycling Archives. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  3. ↑ "54ème Tour de France 1967". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012.
  4. ↑ Herbie Sykes, The Race Against the Stasi: The Incredible Story of Dieter Wiedemann, the Iron Curtain and the Greatest Cycling Race on Earth (London: Aurum Press, 2014)
  5. ↑ , Tim Lewis, 'The best sports books of 2014', The Guardian, 8 December 2014.
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