Road cyclist Olaf Paltian finished fourth with the 100 km team trial at the 1976 Montréal Olympics. He had a long list of successes in road racing. In 1974 he won the Tour de Berlin and was West German Road Team Time Trial champion. One year later he finished third at the Tour de Berlin, was runner-up in the Team Trial race and rode the Tour de Rheinland-Pfalz. In 1976 Paltian rode the Tour de Suisse and again won the national Team Trial Championship and defended this title in 1978. In 1977 he was runner-up at the Tour de Berlin and also finished second at the 1979 Around Berlin race. In 1981 he won the Tour de Schleswig-Holstein.
West Germany