Английская Википедия:Hans-Peter Durst

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Hans-Peter Durst (born 24 May 1958)[1] is a German former para cyclist who won two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, and a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. He won gold medals at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships.

Personal life

Man with glasses draped in a German flag holding up a silver medal.
Durst with his 2012 Summer Paralympics silver medal

Durst is from Dortmund, Germany.[2] He has two children.[3] Durst has a loss of the sense of balance after a traumatic brain injury,[1] caused by a car accident in 1994.[3]

Career

Durst competed in T2 classification competitions,[1] for athletes that use a tricycle.[3] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he came second in the time trial T1–2 event.[1] At the 2015 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, he won the road race[4] and time trial T2 events.[5]

In the road time trial T1–2 event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, Durst's saddle fell off his tricycle after Шаблон:Convert of the race, and he rode for Шаблон:Convert without a saddle.[2] Nevertheless, he won the competition,[2] by over a minute.[3] He also won the road race T1–2 at the same Games.[6] Durst's tricycle at the Games cost €18,000, and weighed Шаблон:Convert, which was just above the competition's minimum weight limit.[7]

In 2017, Durst won the time trial and road race T2 events at the Para-Cycling World Cup event in Emmen, Netherlands.[8] At the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Durst won the time trial and road race T2 events.[9] As of 2018, Durst was the oldest professional cyclist registered with the Union Cycliste Internationale.[10] He did not compete at the Para-Cycling World Cup in 2018, and missed much of the 2019 season as well for health reasons. At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, he won the time trial event.[11]

In May 2021, Durst chose not to compete in the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[12] the effect of the Paralympics on Japan's COVID-19 rates, and in solidarity with the Japanese people, most of whom did not want the Games to happen.[13][14] In June 2021, he competed at the 2021 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships.[15]

In June 2022, Durst announced his retirement from para-cycling.[16]

Honours

Durst was named Dortmund's athlete of the year for 2011 and 2012.[17] He won the award again in 2016.[18]

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