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| Complete name: Jürgen Oelschläger |
| Birth date: 29.Sep.1969 |
| Birth Place: Laufen, Germany |
| Death date: 26.Sep.2004 |
| Death Place: unknown, Germany |
| Nationality: Germany |
| Gender: male |
| Age at death: 34 |
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| Event date: 11.Sep.2004 |
| Series: Internationale Deutsche Motorradmeisterschaft (IDM) [International German Motorcycle Championship (IDM)] |
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| Event type: practice |
| Country: Germany |
| Venue: Oschersleben |
| Variant: 3.668-kilometer A Course road course (2000-2006) |
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| Role: rider |
| Vehicle type: motorcycle |
| Vehicle sub-type: sports bike (no further details yet available) |
| Vehicle brand/model: Honda |
| Vehicle number: 3 |
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Notes:
Jürgen "Oeli" Oelschläger was hit in the back by a following competitor when he had a highsider in his Honda superbike of the team Alpha-Technik. The accident happened on 11 September 2004 during practice for a round of the IDM (Internationale Deutsche Motorradmeisterschaft) championship at Oschersleben. He succumbed to his injuries fifteen days later - three days before his thirty-fifth birthday.
Oelschläger was an accomplished rider, he had raced in the World Superbike Championship, obtaining a ninth place at Assen in 2000. After his debut in 1992 in the Yamaha Cup, Oelschläger spent all his career in the IDM series, racing in the 250 class from 1994 to 1996 in the SSP 600 from 1997 to 2002 (in 1999 he was second in points) and in the Superbike championship in 2003 and 2004.
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Sources:
- Website Jürgen Oelschläger, page http://www.oeli.cc/
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Website IDM, article "Tiefe Trauer um Superbike-Pilot Jürgen Oelschläger", page http://www.idm.de/spiegel.asp?iid=583
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E-mail by Rainer Zahn, dated 23 December 2004.
- E-mail by Rainer Zahn, dated 25 December 2004.
- E-mail by Rainer Zahn, dated 27 December 2004.
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