{"id":32983,"date":"2024-09-20T01:19:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=32983"},"modified":"2024-09-20T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T22:19:10","slug":"german-cyclist-rolf-wolfshohl-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/20\/german-cyclist-rolf-wolfshohl-dies-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"German Cyclist Rolf Wolfshohl Dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><b>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">German cyclist Rolf Wolfshohl, a former champion of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and three-time world champion, has died at the age of 85, his family told the German News Agency on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Wolfshohl won the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in 1965, becoming one of three German cyclists to win the prestigious race, alongside Rudi Altig and Jan Ullrich, who won in 1962 and 1999, respectively.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He also claimed the world title in cyclo-cross in 1960, 1961, and 1963.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Wolfshohl gained significant recognition in the Tour de France, winning a stage in 1967 and another in 1970.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">French fans affectionately nicknamed him &#8220;the wolf.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The German Cycling Federation described Wolfshohl as &#8220;one of the greatest cyclists.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The cause of death is not yet clear, but the German Cycling Federation noted that Wolfshohl had been in poor health in recent years.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He lost his son, Rolf Dieter, in 2011, and his daughter passed away a few years ago.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies German cyclist Rolf Wolfshohl, a former champion of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and three-time world champion, has died at the age of 85, his family told the German News Agency on Thursday. Wolfshohl won the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in 1965, becoming one of three German cyclists to win the prestigious race, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32984,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32983\/revisions\/32984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}