Karl Käser also spelled as Carl Kaeser [Note 1][1] (22 April 1874 – 16 August 1904) was a German track cyclist who competed between 1896 and 1904 in all track cycling disciplines.
 Käser in 1903 | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 22 April 1874 Wehr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | |||||||||||
| Died | 16 August 1904 (aged 30) Plauen, Germany | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Track cycling | |||||||||||
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Käser participated mainly in track cycling races in Germany but also competed internationally, including in the United States in the 1900 six-day race of New York.[2] He competed for Germany in the professional/non-medal classification at the 1900 Summer Olympics in three separate events - the sprint, the tandem sprint, and the 3,000 metres.[3] Käser was also the pacemaker of the Swiss cyclist Edmond Audemars, World Champion at the 1903 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.[2]
Käser died as a result of a fall during a paced race between himself and Thaddeus Robl at the Plauen track in Saxony, Germany in August 1904. He was utilizing a 24-inch tire on a 22-inch wheel and in the moments before his fatal accident he had just pushed back his safety helmet.[4][Note 2][5]>[1][2]
Notes edit
- ^ Some sources spell Käser's name as "Carl Kaeser" – see "Trove"/The Sydney Mail reference.
- ^ The reference Sport-Album der Rad-Welt seen here was an annual compendium of the sports-newspaper Rad-Welt or "Bike World". Rad-Welt started publication in 1895 and ceased publication in 1933. It was published six days a week during the summer season and twice a week from October until March. The annual Sport-Album contained photographs that the daily newspaper could not because of publication time-constraints. The Sport-Album published a column, "Die Toten der Rennbahn" (or "The Dead of the Racetrack") that consisted of obituaries for dead cyclists.
References edit
- ^ a b "Cycling. The Wheel". The Sydney Mail. September 28, 1904. Archived from the original on August 14, 2019. Retrieved August 14, 2019. There are technical issues with the webarchiving-link.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ a b c "Karl Käser". www.cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved November 11, 2021.
- ^ Staff. "Karl Käser". Olympedia. Retrieved November 11, 2021. Regardless of its "pedia" nomenclature, Olympedia is a source edited only by experts in the field.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Sport-Album der Rad-Welt, Vol. 3, 1904, p. 104. Berlin, Verlag Rad-Welt.
- ^ "Karl Käser". dewielersite. Archived from the original on April 11, 2016. Retrieved March 31, 2016.