title: Reimund Dietzen
text: # Reimund Dietzen
  
  Reimund Dietzen sometimes written Raimund Dietzen (born 29 May 1959 in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a retired road and cyclo-cross cyclist from Germany, who was a professional rider from 1982 to 1990.
  
  ## Cycling career
  
  Dietzen was a successful amateur winning the German cyclo-cross championship in 1980 and 1981 as well as winning in road races. He turned professional with the Swiss team Puch in 1982. He won the cyclo-cross race the Grand Prix Jean Bausch-Pierre Kellner that year. The following year he joined a Spanish cycling team Teka with whom he would stay with for the rest of his career. In his first year with his new team he won the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. The following year he became the champion of Germany in the road race and cyclo-cross as well his first stage victory in the Vuelta a España. He won the stage to the Lagos de Covadonga which is a very steep climb and a prestigious stage to win. He would finish that year's edition of the Vuelta third overall. The following year he was again cyclo-cross champion as well as the winner of the Vuelta a Cantabria. In 1986 he was again German road champion and won a second stage in the 1986 Vuelta a España. In 1987 he wore the leader's jersey in the 1987 Vuelta a España for five days before losing it to Herrera and then finishing the race second overall to Luis Herrera of Colombia. Dietzen finished the 1988 Vuelta a España second overall, this time to Sean Kelly of Ireland. In the 1989 Vuelta a España, Dietzen won a stage but several days later he crashed. He had ridden into a tunnel which was not illuminated and crashed, suffering career-ending injuries. He was only 30 years of age when the following year he stopped as a professional after not recovering. Seventeen years later, the Supreme Court of Spain ordered the organisers of the Vuelta a España to pay damages to Dietzen. Dietzen obtained nearly all of his success in Spanish races with wins in Vuelta a La Rioja, Vuelta a Castilla y León, the Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme and he finished in the top 10 of every Vuelta a España between 1984-1988, three of which were on the podium.
  
  ## Post-cycling career
  
  From 2003, Dietzen was a directeur sportif with the now-defunct Team Gerolsteiner. He lives in Spain.
  
  ## Career achievements
  
  ### Major results
  
  **1981–1982**
  
  
      1st Grand Prix Jean Bausch-Pierre Kellner
      2nd National Championships
  
  **1983–1984**
  
  
      1st National Championships
  
  **1984–1985**
  
  
      1st National Championships
  
  **1981**
  
  
      Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
         1st Stages 3 & 4
      3rd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
  
  **1982**
  
  
      1st Trofeo Luis Puig
      7th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
  
  **1983**
  
  
      1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
         1st Stage 4
      2nd Road race, National Road Championships
      3rd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
         1st Prologue
      3rd Clásica de San Sebastián
  
  **1984**
  
  
      1st Road race, National Road Championships
      1st Stage 1 Vuelta Asturias
      2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
      2nd Clásica de San Sebastián
      3rd Overall Vuelta a España
         1st Stage 12
      3rd Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
  
  **1985**
  
  
      1st Overall Vuelta a Cantabria
         1st Stage 2
      2nd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
      2nd Overall Vuelta Asturias
      3rd Overall Tour of Galicia
      7th Overall Vuelta a España
  
  **1986**
  
  
      1st Road race, National Road Championships
      1st Overall Vuelta a Cantabria
         1st Stage 3
      1st Stage 4a Vuelta a Murcia
      1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Aragón
      4th Overall Vuelta a España
         1st Stage 12
      7th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
      7th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
  
  **1987**
  
  
      1st Overall Vuelta a La Rioja
         1st Prologue
      2nd Overall Vuelta a España
      2nd Subida al Naranco
      3rd Overall Vuelta a Aragón
  
  **1988**
  
  
      1st Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
         1st Stage 3
      2nd Overall Vuelta a España
      3rd Subida al Naranco
  
  **1989**
  
  
      1st Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
      1st Stage 9 Vuelta a España
  
  ### Grand Tour general classification results timeline
  
  | Grand Tour | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Vuelta a España | 40 | DNF | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | DNF |
  | Giro d'Italia | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career | Did not contest during his career |
  | Tour de France | DNF | — | 64 | — | DNF | 90 | 83 | — |
  
  Legend :
  
  | — | Did not compete |
  | - | - |
  | DNF | Did not finish |
  