Bernd Diener
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| Born | 19 June 1959 Gengenbach, West Germany |
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| Nationality | German |
| Career history | |
| Germany | |
| 1984, 2003–2006, 2009, 2012 | Diedenbergen |
| Individual honours | |
| 1999 | European Grasstrack Champion |
| 2000 | German Longtrack champion |
| 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2015 | Northern German Longtrack champion |
| Team honours | |
| 2008, 2012 | World Longtrack Team Champion |
Bernd Diener (born 19 June 1959) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Germany. He competed in Speedway, Longtrack and Grasstrack and is a two times World longtrack team champion.[1]
Career
Diener has twice been on the podium in the World Longtrack Championship 1996 & 2004. He became a team World longtrack team champion in 2008 and 2012 respectively.[2]
Diener won the European Grasstrack Championship in 1999.[3]
Diener won the German national longtrack championship in 2000 and went on to finish fifth in the World Championship that year.[4] Diener won the German championship silver medal three times and bronze medal seven times spanning the years 1995 to 2019.[5]
Diener retired in 2023.[6]
World Longtrack Championship
One Day Finals
- 1986
Pfarrkirchen (7th) 10pts - 1992 Pfarrkirchen (16th) 2pts
- 1993 Mühldorf (13th) 6pts
- 1994
Mariánské Lázně(6th) 15pts - 1995 Scheeßel(15th) 3pts
- 1996 Herxheim (Runner-up) 23pts
Grand-Prix
- 1998 - 4 apps (12th) 38pts
- 1999 - 5 apps (7th) 56pts
- 2000 - 5 apps (5th) 60pts
- 2001 - 4 apps (7th) 45pts
- 2002 - 2 apps (16th) 24pts
- 2003 - 6 apps (7th) 58pts
- 2004 - 5 apps (Third) 71pts
- 2005 - 4 apps (13th) 27pts
- 2006 - 3 apps (14th) 18pts
- 2007 - 3 apps (9th) 34pts
- 2008 - did not compete
- 2009 - 4 apps (20th) 12pts
- 2010 - 1 app (24th) 3pts
- 2011 - did not compete
- 2012 - 4 apps (14th) 34pts
- 2013 - did not compete
- 2014 - 1 apps (20th) 5pts
- 2015 - did not compete
- 2016 - did not compete
- 2017 - did not compete
- 2018 - 5 apps (7th) 54pts
Best Grand-Prix Results
Team Championship
- 2008 Wertle (First) 7/45pts (Rode with Gerd Riss, Stephan Katt, Matthias Kroger)
- 2012
St. Macaire (First) 22/48 (Rode with Matthias Kroger, Jorg Tebbe, Stephan Katt)
European Grasstrack Championship
Finals
- 1988 Nandlastadt (14th) 4pts
- 1994 Cloppenburg (8th) 11pts
- 1995
Joure (Second) 22pts - 1999 Werlte (Champion) 25pts
- 2000 Saint-Colomb-de-Lauzun (4th) 15pts
- 2001 Noordwolde (5th) 12pts
- 2005 Schwarme (7th) 11pts
- 2006 La Réole (5th) 18pts
- 2007
Folkestone (8th) 9pts - 2009 Berghaupten (10th) 11pts
- 2015 Staphorst (9th) 16pts
- 2017 Hertingen (9th) 15pts
References
- ^ "Bernd Diener". Stadtanzeiger Ortenau. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
- ^ "World Longtrack Team World Champions". Grasstrack GB. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Bernd Diener". GrasstrackGB. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Strongest ever line-up of track stars for Wainfleet's Poacher International". Horncastle News. 23 August 2000. Retrieved 24 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Deutsche Langbahnmeisterschaft". Speedway Yesterday. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Bernd Diener fährt ein letztes Mal". Baden online. Retrieved 24 August 2024.