Heiko Salzwedel
Heiko Salzwedel ( born April 16, 1957 in Schmalkalden ) is a former German cyclist and current cycling coach.
Playing career
In his youth, Heiko Salzwedel was even racing the SC Cottbus; he was four times GDR youth and junior champion, once in a two - team driving with Volker Winkler.
Coaching career at home and abroad
After completing his active cycling career Salzwedel trained as a sports scientist at the German University of Physical Culture ( DHfK ) in Leipzig.
In 1989, Heiko Salzwedel the GDR train four in the cast Steffen Bloch joke, Carsten Wolf, Thomas Liese and Guido Fulst to the world title. After the turn he worked from 1990 to 1998 as head coach for road cycling and mountain bike at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS ) in Canberra and trained drivers like Matthew White, Henk Vogels, Cadel Evans, Kathy Watts, Robbie McEwen and Patrick Jonker. Less than a year he has been a speaker for competitive sports at the German Cycling Federation. Then Salzwedel worked for the British Sports Association ( UK Sport ) active.
From 2001 to 2003 Salzwedel was the manager of the British Cycling Federation. He was then for the Equipe Nürnberger and for the "T- Mobile Development programs " operate. About his agency SL -Sports he supervised sports associations (eg, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI ), Swiss Triathlon, Canadian Speed Skating Association ) and racing drivers such as McEwen, Ronny Scholz and Grisha Niermann and triathletes Jan van Berkel.
From 2005 to 2008 Heiko Salzwedel was the Danish national team coach; under his aegis was the Danish cyclist Mie Bekker Lacota at the track world championships in 2007 in Palma de Mallorca vice-world champion in the points race. The Danish four ( Casper Jørgensen, Jens Erik Madsen, Michael Mørkøv and Alex Rasmussen) won the bronze medal; this was the first World Cup medal in the Team Pursuit after 14 years for the Danish Association. This success was outdone even by winning the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with the quad. In the Track World Championships 2008 in Manchester, trained by the Danish athletes Salzwedel silver medals were in four and in the points race of women ( Trine Schmidt), as well as a bronze medal in the two- team approach ( Michael Mørkøv and Alex Rasmussen) win.
In 2009, Heiko Salzwedel worked for the British Cycling Federation as Performance Manager again. In 2010 he became head coach of the Russian national railway teams from the 2011/2012 season General Manager of RusVelo, a project that a UCI track team and since the road cycling season of 2012, two road cycling team - a Professional Continental team and a UCI Women 's Team - maintains. In October 2012 it was announced that Salzwedel only works as a coach of the team and gives the function of the manager. Since January 2014 he coached the U-23 national road in Switzerland.