Jens Fiedler

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Jens Fiedler (2010)
Jens Fiedler (r.) Trying to stand with Darryn Hill (1999)

Jens Fiedler (born February 15, 1970 in Dohna ) is a former German track cyclist and today's team manager of Team Erdgas . 2012 .

Sports career

As a teenager, Jens Fiedler went through the GDR's sports funding for track cycling . As a junior he had his first successes, in 1988 he became junior world champion in the track sprint , shortly before that he had already become GDR champion in the youth A class. Before he celebrated his first Olympic victory at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , he had already won the world championship title among amateurs in this discipline in 1991 .

For winning the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games, he received the silver laurel leaf on June 23, 1993 .

Following the games, he switched to the professionals in 1993. At the 1995 World Championships , he won the title in the Olympic sprint (with Michael Huebner and Jan van Eijden ) and a year later, at the Olympic Games in Atlanta , he again won the gold medal in the sprint. In 1998 he secured the world title in Keirin , which he won again in Berlin in 1999 . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , however, he was denied the historic title hat trick, winning bronze in his specialty disciplines Sprint and Keirin.

Fiedler's third place in the Keirin at the 2001 World Championships in Antwerp attracted particular attention . Four out of six drivers in the final run fell half a lap from the finish, while the future world champion Ryan Bayley and the runner-up Laurent Gané were able to continue safely. Fiedler, slightly dazed, grabbed his defective bike, walked to the finish and thus secured the bronze medal (according to the rules, rider and bike only have to reach the finish together).

In 2002 Fiedler won gold three times at the Deutsche Bahn Championships, and in 2003 he won gold in the men's team sprint (formerly Olympic sprint) at the Track Cycling World Championships in Stuttgart , together with Carsten Bergemann and René Wolff . At the 2004 Olympics in Athens he won gold, also in the team sprint, together with Wolff and Stefan Nimke . In addition, over the course of his career he won a total of 18 national titles in various short-term disciplines on the track.

In the course of his career, Fiedler has won more than 30 Grand Prix and World Cup competitions for sprinters and sprinter prizes:

Jens Fiedler officially ended his career in the Berlin six-day race on February 1, 2005. A few weeks later, on February 26, 2005, he tested positive for amphetamines at a cycling event in Manchester, UK . Fiedler explained the positive result with the careless ingestion of a drug.

Professional and private

The trained electronics worker Fiedler has lived in Chemnitz for years and now works for the local utility company. He is married for the third time. Since 2009 he has been the manager of the UCI Track Team Team Natural Gas. 2012 .

Web links

Commons : Jens Fiedler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 52/1988 . Berlin, S. 3 .
  2. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: "... on June 23, 1993 Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf ... "
  3. ↑ Netzeitung.de: "Jens Fiedler takes third place on foot" ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Doped Olympic track champion Jens Fiedler. In: The world. April 23, 2005, accessed July 28, 2015 .
  5. ↑ The makers. Team Erdgas . 2012 , accessed December 12, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Fiedler, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German track racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Dohna , GDR