Andreas Beikirch
Andreas Beikirch ( born March 29, 1970 in Hilden ) is a former German track cycling and road racing cyclist.
Sporting career
Andreas Beikirch 1988 junior track cycling world champion in the points race and German champion in the team pursuit, together with Lars Teutenberg, Holger Stach and Torsten Schmidt. Two years later he won his first six-day race in Noumea in New Caledonia. In 2000, he was with Manfred Donike for the first time German champion in Madison; He won a total of ten German Championship titles in the course of his career. At that discipline 2003 he was European champion ( with Andreas Kappes ) and 2006 for the second time German champion ( with Robert Bartko ). Other Six Days Beikirch could win in Dortmund, Stuttgart and Bremen.
On the road Beikirch could win the Mi- Août en Bretagne, the Great Westfalen Dortmund price and one lap of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce and the Tour of Lower Saxony between 1997 and 1999. In 2002, he won the Tour de Neuss or at Jülich for the team Cologne. A year later he became First City Night Hamm. As of 2005 drove Beikirch for Team Sparkasse. In his first year there he won the Mönchengladbach Rheydt.This Criterium and the Grand Prize of the WAZ. In the years 2006 and 2007 Beikirch was successful in each case on a section of the Gelsennet tour. On 25 July 2008 he fell in Dusseldorf in a traffic accident, broke his three ribs, shoulder blade and collarbone and suffered a concussion. Beikirch was admitted to the University Hospital Dusseldorf, but could be discharged only three days later.
With the 2009/2010 season Beikirch ended after 117 starts and four wins in six-day race of his career.
Achievements - road
- Mi- Août en Bretagne
- Great Price Dortmund Westphalia
- A stage Lower Saxony Tour
- A stage of Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce
Achievements - train
- Junior World Champion points race
- Germany German champion in the team pursuit, together with Lars Teutenberg, Holger Stach and Torsten Schmidt. Z
- Six Days Noumea ( with Frank Kühn)
- Germany German champion Madison ( with Olaf Pollack )
- Six Days of Dortmund ( with Andreas Kappes )
- European champion two - team approach ( with Andreas Kappes )
- Six Days of Stuttgart ( with Andreas Kappes and Gerd Dörich )
- Six Days of Bremen ( with Robert Bartko )
- Germany German champion two - team approach ( with Robert Bartko )