Uwe Peschel

Peschel's story is the kind that gives sport its mythic weight. His father Axel raced the team time trial for East Germany at the 1968 Olympics just a fortnight before his son was born, and decades later Uwe won gold in that very same discipline at Barcelona 1992. A father and son bound to one of cycling's loneliest, most punishing events, with the son reaching the summit, is narrative gold. The time trial rewards solitary obsession, and I suspect that single-mindedness ran in the blood. I find this lineage genuinely moving; some athletes inherit not just talent but a calling, and Peschel honoured his.

Name (English)

Uwe Peschel

Name (Japanese)

ウーヴェ・ペシェル

Reading

うーゔぇ・ぺしぇる

Born

November 4, 1968 (age 57)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

Origin

East Berlin, German Democratic Republic

Height

179 cm

Occupation

sport cyclist

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB

Tags

• sport cyclist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.