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Miriam Welte (born 9 December 1986) is a German
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 ...
.
Career
At the2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was the World Championships for track cycling in 2012. They took place in Melbourne, Australia from 4 to 8 April 2012. The championships took place in the Hisense Arena which previously hosted the w ...
in Melbourne
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, Welte and Kristina Vogel
Kristina Vogel (born 10 November 1990) is a former German track cyclist. During her career, she won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games, and is an eleven-time UCI World Champion. She was paralysed following a crash in June 2018.
...
won the gold medal in the 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 ...
. They set a world record
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in qualifying which they broke again in the final.
On 22 June 2012, she set a new world record of 10.643 seconds in the individual sprint event.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she and Vogel won the team sprint gold medal.
Welte was trained by her step-father, Frank Ziegler. In 2002, she finished second in the German National Junior 500 m time trial. From 2006 to 2008, she won the senior version of the event.
Major Results
;2008 :UEC European U23 Track Championships ::1st Keirin ::1st Sprint ::2nd 500m Time Trial ;2014 :1st Keirin, Oberhausen :Dudenhofen ::1st Keirin ::1st Sprint :1st Team Sprint, Cottbuser Nächte (withKristina Vogel
Kristina Vogel (born 10 November 1990) is a former German track cyclist. During her career, she won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games, and is an eleven-time UCI World Champion. She was paralysed following a crash in June 2018.
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)
:Sprintermeeting
::1st Keirin
::1st Sprint
:UEC European Track Championships
::2nd Team Sprint (with Kristina Vogel
Kristina Vogel (born 10 November 1990) is a former German track cyclist. During her career, she won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games, and is an eleven-time UCI World Champion. She was paralysed following a crash in June 2018.
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)
::3rd 500m Time Trial
:3rd Sprint, Track-Cycling Challenge Grenchen
;2015
:2nd Team Sprint, UEC European Track Championships
The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...
(with Kristina Vogel
Kristina Vogel (born 10 November 1990) is a former German track cyclist. During her career, she won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games, and is an eleven-time UCI World Champion. She was paralysed following a crash in June 2018.
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)
:Internationale Radsport Meeting
::2nd 500m Time Trial
::3rd Keirin
::3rd Sprint
:2nd Keirin, Cottbuser Nächte
:3rd Team Sprint, GP von Deutschland im Sprint (with Kristina Vogel
Kristina Vogel (born 10 November 1990) is a former German track cyclist. During her career, she won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games, and is an eleven-time UCI World Champion. She was paralysed following a crash in June 2018.
...
)
;2016
:GP von Deutschland im Sprint
::1st Team Sprint (with Kristina Vogel
Kristina Vogel (born 10 November 1990) is a former German track cyclist. During her career, she won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games, and is an eleven-time UCI World Champion. She was paralysed following a crash in June 2018.
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)
::3rd Sprint
:2nd Sprint, Track-Cycling Challenge Grenchen
:Cottbuser SprintCup
::2nd 500m Time Trial
::3rd Sprint
:3rd Team Sprint, UCI World Track Championships
;2017
:UEC European Track Championships
The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...
::1st 500m Time Trial
::2nd Team Sprint (with Kristina Vogel
Kristina Vogel (born 10 November 1990) is a former German track cyclist. During her career, she won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games, and is an eleven-time UCI World Champion. She was paralysed following a crash in June 2018.
...
)
:GP von Deutschland im Sprint
::1st Team Sprint (with Pauline Grabosch)
::2nd Keirin
:Siberne Eule von Ludwigshafen
::1st Sprint
::2nd Keirin
:TROFEU CIUTAT DE BARCELONA-Memorial Miquel Poblet
::1st Sprint
::2nd Keirin
:Track Cycling Challenge
::1st Keirin
::1st Sprint
:UCI World Track Championships
::2nd 500m Time Trial
::3rd Team Sprint (with Kristina Vogel
Kristina Vogel (born 10 November 1990) is a former German track cyclist. During her career, she won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games, and is an eleven-time UCI World Champion. She was paralysed following a crash in June 2018.
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)
:2nd Sprint, Dudenhofen
References
External links
* * * 1986 births Living people German female cyclists People from Kaiserslautern UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women) Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Rhineland-Palatinate German track cyclists 20th-century German women 21st-century German women {{Germany-cycling-bio-1980s-stub