René Enders
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René Enders (born 13 February 1987) 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 ...
. He won two bronze Olympic medals with the German team 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 ...
: in
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and in
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. He competed for Germany at the
2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
as a member of the men's sprint team. They finished in 5th place.


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* * 1987 births Living people People from Zeulenroda-Triebes People from Bezirk Gera German track cyclists German male cyclists Cyclists from Thuringia Olympic cyclists of Germany Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in cycling UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics 21st-century German people {{Germany-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub