Jens Fiedler (born 15 February 1970) is a German triple Olympic champion and multiple world champion
track cyclist
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles.
History
Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...
.
He retired from competitive cycling in early 2005.
Major results
;1992
: 1st
Olympic Games
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,
Sprint
: 1st National Championship, Sprint
;1993
: 1st National Championship, Sprint
;1994
: 1st National Championship, Sprint
;1995
: 1st National Championship, Sprint
: 1st World Championship,
Team sprint
The team sprint (also sometimes known as the Olympic sprint) is a track cycling event. Despite its name, it is not a conventional cycling sprint event – it is a three-rider team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome.
The current men's ...
(with
Michael Hübner
Michael Hübner (born 8 April 1959 in Chemnitz) is a German former professional sprint track cyclist, who became world champion in sprint, Keirin and team sprint
The team sprint (also sometimes known as the Olympic sprint) is a track cycling ...
,
Jan van Eijden
Jan van Eijden (born 10 August 1976 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German track cyclist born in Bad Neuenahr. He is a double World Champion in sprint and team sprint. He also won one world cup classic and four German nati ...
)
;1996
: 1st
Olympic Games
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, Sprint
: 1st National Championship, Sprint
;1997
: 2nd World Championship, Sprint
;1998
: 1st National Championship, Sprint
: 1st World Championship,
Keirin
– literally "racing cycle" – is a form of motor-paced cycle racing in which track cyclists sprint for victory following a speed-controlled start behind a motorized or non-motorized pacer. It was developed in Japan around 1948 for gamblin ...
: 2nd World Championship, Sprint
;1999
: 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with Jan van Eijden,
Eyk Pokorny
Eyk Pokorny (born 22 November 1969) is a German cyclist. He competed in the men's sprint at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Major results
;1991
: 1st Tandem, UCI Amateur World Championships (with Emanuel Raasch)
;1993
: 2nd Sprint, National Track ...
)
: 1st National Championship, Sprint
: 1st World Championship, Keirin
;2000
: 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with Jan van Eijden,
Carsten Bergemann)
: 3rd
Olympic Games
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, Sprint
: 3rd Olympic Games, Keirin
: 2nd World Championship, Keirin
;2001
: 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with
Sören Yves Lausberg, Eyk Pokorny)
: 3rd World Championship, Keirin
;2002
: 1st National Championship, Keirin
: 1st National Championship, Sprint
: 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with
Stefan Nimke, Carsten Bergemann)
: 3rd World Championship, Team sprint
;2003
: 2nd National Championship, Team sprint (with Stefan Nimke, Carsten Bergemann)
: 1st World Championship, Team sprint (with
René Wolff, Carsten Bergemann)
;2004
: 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with Stefan Nimke, Carsten Bergemann)
: 1st
Olympic Games
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, Team sprint (with Stefan Nimke, René Wolff)
Personal and professional
For many years Fiedler has lived in
Chemnitz
Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...
. He is trained as an electrician, and currently works for the city's power supply company. He lives with his third wife.
Since 2009 he has also been the manager of the
UCI Track Team, "Erdgas".
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References
1970 births
Living people
People from Dohna
People from Bezirk Dresden
German track cyclists
German male cyclists
Cyclists from Saxony
Olympic cyclists for Germany
Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in cycling
UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf
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