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Place of Birth: Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Horst Gnas
- Horst Gnas (born 3 September 1941) is a retired German cyclist who specialized in motor-paced racing.
- In this discipline he won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1971-1973 and finished second in 1970.
- He teamed with the famous Dutch pacer Bruno Walrave.His wife was fatally injured in a car accident while he was competing at the 1973 World Championships, leaving him with two daughters of eight and ten years old.
- Gnas retired from competitions in 1977 due to injuries, remarried, and opened two cleaning companies in Nuremberg and Röthenbach an der Pegnitz.
- His second wife Renata died in October 2008 of a sudden organ failure.
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