Miriam Welte

Miriam Welte ( born December 9, 1986 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German track cyclist, world champion and Olympic champion.

  • 3.1 The Olympic Games
  • 3.2 Track World Championships
  • 3.3 Bahn European Championships
  • 3.4 German railway Championships

Sports career

2002-2012

2002 Miriam Welte German vice - champion of the junior women in the 500 -meter time trial from 2006 to 2008, she won the German championship in each of the elite in this discipline. These two European titles were: 2006 time trial in Athens and 2008 in the Keirin in Pruszków. 2008 and 2009 they reached multiple podium finishes in World Cup race in the time trial and team sprint.

2008, 1.71 meters wide and then 65 kg heavy Welte won together with Dana Glöß at the Track World Championships in Manchester bronze in the team sprint. In 2011 she took at the Track World Championships in Apeldoorn third place in the 500 -meter time trial; In the same year she was in Berlin three times German Champion; in the keirin, team sprint ( with Verena Jooss ) and in the 500 -meter time trial with a new German record time of 34.336 seconds and vice - champion in the sprint.

In the UCI Track World Championships 2012 in Melbourne Miriam Welte could get together with Kristina Vogel the gold medal in the team sprint. Both in qualifying as presented in the final two riders each have a world record. The 500 -meter time trial, she finished behind Anna Meares with a national record time of 33.626 seconds as Vice World Champion. So she improved her own previous record of 34.172 seconds, which she had placed in the running of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup 2011/2012 in Astana. So they drove a new German record over 500 meters from a standing start three times in less than twelve months. On June 22, 2012 Welte also presented at the U.S. Grand Prix of Sprinting in Colorado Springs to a new record over 200 meters flying start at 10.64 seconds.

Since 2012

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London Miriam Welte won jointly with Kristina Vogel the gold medal in the team sprint after the judge returned classified the actual final winners from China to second place because of a faulty. Even in the final of gold, the two German riders had only come because the course before the British duo had been relegated because of just such an error. The two Germans are the first Olympic champions in this discipline, the new place in the Olympic Games of 2012 recording program.

The following year, Welte was together with bird in Minsk World Champion in the team sprint and vice-world champion in the time trial. In December 2013, it presented together with Kristina Vogel 32.153 seconds with a new world record in the team sprint over 500 meters on. In the UCI Track World Championships 2014 in Cali Welte was double world champion, in the team sprint with bird and in the 500 -meter time trial.

From April until May 2014 Miriam Welte was the first German sprinter who was invited to the International Keirin series, where they will start together with the Spaniard Helena Casas in Girl's Keirin.

Team

By 2013, Miriam Welte launched for the UCI Track Team "Track Cycling Team Mecklenburg -Vorpommern", their club was RSC Kaiserslautern. In February 2014 it was announced that she joined the triathlon Department of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern, which is German cyclist on the Palatine Bicycle Association Member of the Association.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • 2012 Gold: Team Sprint ( with Kristina Vogel)

Track World Championships

  • 2008 Bronze: Team Sprint
  • 2011 Bronze: 500 meters
  • 2012 Gold: Team Sprint ( with Kristina Vogel)
  • 2012 Silver: 500 meters
  • 2013 Gold: Team Sprint ( with Kristina Vogel)
  • 2014 Gold: Team Sprint ( with Kristina Vogel)
  • 2014 Gold: 500 meters

Train European Championships

  • 2006 Gold: 500 meters
  • 2008 Gold: 500 meters

German railway Championships

  • 2006 Gold: 500 meters
  • 2007 Gold: 500 meters
  • 2008 Gold: 500 meters
  • 2011 Gold: 500 meters
  • 2011 Gold: Keirin
  • 2011 Gold: Team Sprint
  • 2011 Silver: Sprint
  • 2013 Gold: Team Sprint
  • 2013 Gold: 500 meters
  • 2013 Silver: Sprint
  • 2013 Silver: Keirin

Awards

  • 2012 German cyclist of the year (along with Kristina Vogel )
  • 2013 Athlete of the Year in Rhineland- Palatinate.
  • Induction into the Hall of Fame of the European Cycling Union Union Européenne de Cyclisme
UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's 1 km time trial 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Colorado Springs, Colorado Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships 1. FC Kaiserslautern German Cycling Federation List of Olympic medalists in cycling (women) Victoria Pendleton Shanaze Reade Kaarle McCulloch Lisandra Guerra Olga Panarina Lee Wai-sze Annett Neumann
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