Mario Kummer

{{short description|German cyclist}} {{use dmy dates|date=July 2016}} {{Infobox cyclist | name = Mario Kummer | image = Mario KUMMER.jpg | image_size = | caption = Kummer at the 1993 Tour de France | fullname = Mario Kummer | nickname = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|5|6|df=y}} | birth_place = Suhl, Thuringia, East Germany | height = | weight = | currentteam = | discipline = Road and track | role = Rider | ridertype = | amateuryears1 = | amateurteam1 = | proyears1 = 1990–1991 | proteam1 = {{UCI team code|Chateau d'Ax|1990}} | proyears2 = 1992 | proteam2 = {{UCI team code|PDM|1992}} | proyears3 = 1993–1997 | proteam3 = {{UCI team code|THR|1993}} | manageyears1 = 2007 | manageteam1 = {{UCI team code|AST|2007}} | majorwins = | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry| {{GDR}} }} {{MedalSport | Men's track cycling}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalGold | 1988 Seoul | Team time trial }} | show-medals = yes }}

'''Mario Kummer''' (born 6 May 1962) is a retired track and road racing cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the gold medal in the men's team time trial, alongside Uwe Ampler, Jan Schur and Maik Landsmann.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ku/mario-kummer-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418022420/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ku/mario-kummer-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Mario Kummer Olympic Results |accessdate=7 July 2016}}</ref> He was a professional road cyclist from 1990 to 1998, and afterwards became a cycling manager, managing {{UCI team code|AST|2007}} for the 2007 racing year.

==Major results== {{div col}} ;1983 :Troféu Joaquim Agostinho ::1st Stages 1 & 6 :1st Stage 8 Okolo Slovenska :10th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ;1984 :1st {{cjersey|yellow}} Overall Tour de Normandie ;1988 :1st 20px Team time trial, Summer Olympics (with Uwe Ampler, Jan Schur and Maik Landsmann) ;1989 :10th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe ;1990 :3rd Firenze–Pistoia :10th Overall GP du Midi-Libre ;1991 :1st Stage 3 Giro di Puglia :8th Firenze–Pistoia ;1994 :8th Japan Cup Cycle Road Race ;1997 :5th HEW Cyclassics {{div col end}}

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==External links== *{{Cycling Archives|8540}} *{{Procyclingstats|mario-kummer}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kummer, Mario}} Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Suhl Category:Sportspeople from Bezirk Suhl Category:East German male cyclists Category:German male cyclists Category:German track cyclists Category:Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic cyclists for East Germany Category:Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Category:Olympic medalists in cycling Category:Cyclists from Thuringia Category:UCI Road World Champions (elite men) Category:Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Category:Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold