Bernd Diener
{{short description|German motorcycle speedway rider|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox speedway rider
| name = Bernd Diener
| nationality = German
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|6|19|df=y}}
| death_date =
| image = Bernd Diener Lüdinghausen 2007.jpg
| birth_place = Gengenbach, West Germany
| career1 = Germany
| career2 = Diedenbergen
| years2 = 1984, 2003–2006, 2009, 2012
| indivyear1 = 1999
| indivhonour1 = European Grasstrack Champion
| indivyear2 = 2000
| indivhonour2 = German Longtrack champion
| indivyear3 = 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2015
| indivhonour3 = Northern German Longtrack champion
| teamyear1 = 2008, 2012
| teamhonour1 = 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.stadtanzeiger-ortenau.de/tag/bernd-diener |title=Bernd Diener |website=Stadtanzeiger Ortenau |access-date=24 August 2024}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack-team-cup/ |title=World Longtrack Team World Champions |publisher=Grasstrack GB | access-date=1 April 2024}}
Diener won the European Grasstrack Championship in 1999.{{cite web |url=https://grasstrackgb.co.uk/bernd-diener/ |title=Bernd Diener |website=GrasstrackGB |access-date=1 April 2024}}
Diener won the German national longtrack championship in 2000 and went on to finish fifth in the World Championship that year.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005223/20000823/265/0033 |title=Strongest ever line-up of track stars for Wainfleet's Poacher International |website=Horncastle News |date=23 August 2000 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=24 August 2024}} Diener won the German championship silver medal three times and bronze medal seven times spanning the years 1995 to 2019.{{cite web |url=https://www.speedway-yesterday.de/html/body_langbahn-dm.html |title=Deutsche Langbahnmeisterschaft |website=Speedway Yesterday |access-date=1 April 2024}}
Diener retired in 2023.{{cite web |url=https://www.bo.de/sport/lokalsport/bernd-diener-fahrt-ein-letztes-mal |title=Bernd Diener fährt ein letztes Mal |website=Baden online |access-date=24 August 2024}}
World Longtrack Championship
=One Day Finals=
- 1986 {{flagicon|FRG}} Pfarrkirchen (7th) 10pts
- 1992 {{flagicon|GER}} Pfarrkirchen (16th) 2pts
- 1993 {{flagicon|GER}} Mühldorf (13th) 6pts
- 1994 {{flagicon|CZE}} Mariánské Lázně(6th) 15pts
- 1995 {{flagicon|GER}} Scheeßel(15th) 3pts
- 1996 {{flagicon|GER}} 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 {{Flagicon|GER}} Wertle (First) 7/45pts (Rode with Gerd Riss, Stephan Katt, Matthias Kroger)
- 2012 {{Flagicon|FRA}} St. Macaire (First) 22/48 (Rode with Matthias Kroger, Jorg Tebbe, Stephan Katt)
European Grasstrack Championship
=Finals=
- 1988 {{Flagicon|FRG}} Nandlastadt (14th) 4pts
- 1994 {{Flagicon|GER}} Cloppenburg (8th) 11pts
- 1995 {{Flagicon|NED}} Joure (Second) 22pts
- 1999 {{Flagicon|GER}} Werlte (Champion) 25pts
- 2000 {{Flagicon|FRA}} Saint-Colomb-de-Lauzun (4th) 15pts
- 2001 {{Flagicon|NED}} Noordwolde (5th) 12pts
- 2005 {{Flagicon|GER}} Schwarme (7th) 11pts
- 2006 {{Flagicon|FRA}} La Réole (5th) 18pts
- 2007 {{Flagicon|ENG}} Folkestone (8th) 9pts
- 2009 {{Flagicon|NED}} Berghaupten (10th) 11pts
- 2015 {{Flagicon|NED}} Staphorst (9th) 16pts
- 2017 {{Flagicon|GER}} Hertingen (9th) 15pts
References
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- https://www.speedweek.com/langbahngp/news/133724/Bernd-Diener-ist-mit-59-Jahren-immer-noch-Weltspitze.html
- https://www.speedweek.com/steckbrief/285/Bernd-Diener.html
- https://www.stadtanzeiger-ortenau.de/tag/bernd-diener
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Category:German speedway riders
Category:Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship riders