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 The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

, 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

, 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

, 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

, 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".

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 {{Germany-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub