Klaus Lausch

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Klaus Lausch
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Klaus Lausch in Stal Gorzów colours, 1992
Born (1964-02-19) 19 February 1964 (age 60)
Wasserburg, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Career history
Germany
1982–1984, 1986 Landshut
1988, 1990–1992 Diedenbergen
Great Britain
1984–1985 Oxford Cheetahs
Poland
1991 Gorzów
Individual honours
1988 World longtrack silver medal
1988, 1989, 1990 German Individual Championship
1986 West German Longtrack champion
Team honours
1982, 1984, 1986 West German team title
1985 British League champion
1985 Knockout Cup
1985 Midland Cup

Klaus Lausch (born 19 February 1964) is a former motorcycle speedway rider who competed in speedway, Longtrack racing. He reached seven World Longtrack world championship finals and earned 27 international caps for the West German national speedway team and 2 caps for the German national speedway team. [1]

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Career

Lausch began his career at AC Landshut and reached the final of the 1982 European U21 Championship. [2] Lausch helped Landshut win two West German Team Championships in 1982 and 1984 respectively. [3]

Oxford Cheetahs had returned to the British League in 1984 and had signed Hans Nielsen for a record £30,000, Simon Wigg for £25,000, Marvyn Cox, Melvyn Taylor and Jens Rasmussen. Following an injury to Taylor, the Cheetahs moved to sign Lausch as a replacement and his career took off afterwards. [4] The following season in 1985, he was part of the Oxford team [5] that won the treble of league, Knockout Cup and Midland Cup despite breaking his collarbone during the season. [6]

After returning to Germany in 1986, he won another West German title and surprisingly made the decision not to return to British speedway, despite a demand from British clubs existing. He won his first German Individual Championship in 1988. [2] [7]

Lausch secured three consecutive German titles by winning both the 1989 and 1990 editions of the championship. He joined MSC Diedenbergen in 1990 and had a season in Poland riding for Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski in 1991. [8]

Alongside conventional speedway, Lausch was successful in longtrack and would reach seven world finals, including winning a silver medal in 1988. [9] Additionally, he won the 1986 West German Longtrack Championship.

World Longtrack Championship

Final

World Final appearances

World Pairs Championship

German Individual Speedway Championship

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References

  1. ↑ "Ultimate Rider Index, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Klaus Lausch". WWOS backup. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  3. ↑ "Historyczne Zestawienie Wynikow 1992-2015". Speedway History. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  4. ↑ Bamford/Shailes, Robert/Glynn (2007). The Story of Oxford Speedway. Tempus Publishing Ltd. pp. 128–135. ISBN   978-0-7524-4161-0.
  5. ↑ "Speedway" . Banbury Guardian. 15 August 1985. Retrieved 24 August 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Grahame's glory" . Birmingham Mail. 1 November 1985. Retrieved 21 October 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ Loader, Tony (1991). Loader's International Speedway Annual 1991. Tony Loader. p. 166. ISSN   1036-4404.
  8. ↑ "Klaus Lausch". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  9. ↑ "Klaus Lausch". Grasstrack GB. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
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