Gregor Braun

As a double Olympic Champion in the individual pursuit and the team pursuit at the 1976 Montréal Olympics, track cyclist and pursuit specialist Gregor Braun was elected West Germany’s 1976 Sportsman of the Year. He turned professional a year later, but turned to road racing, and in 1978 won the road classic Rund um den Henninger Turm and in 1980 he also won the Deutschlandtour.

In 1982 he participated in his only Tour de France but withdrew after the eighth stage. In 1981 and 1983 he raced the Giro d’Italia. Braun retired in 1989 and then worked part-time as a cycling coach. He later managed a cycling service company together with non-Olympian former cyclist Heinz Betz.

In 2023 Braun was found guilty of child sexual abuse by the Tübingen district court and sent to prison for two years and nine months. Between September 2013 to March 2018 he and his lover had forced their daughter to watch them having sex and took pornographic photos of her.