Alexej Baumgartner

	Alexej Baumgartner
nation	Germany
birthday	July 13, 1988
place of birth	Glazov (Udmurtia) , Soviet Union
job	Sports soldier
Career
discipline	All-round
society	EC Chemnitz
Trainer	André Unterdörfel
status	active
Medal table
	Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup	February 2009
Total toilet 5000/10000	14th (2011/12) ; 15th (2012/13)
	last change: August 14, 2013

Alexej Baumgärtner (born July 13, 1988 in Glasow , Soviet Union) is a German speed skater . Born in the Soviet Union, Alexej moved to Chemnitz in Saxony with his German mother and Russian father in 1996 .

At the age of 10 he started speed skating with the Chemnitz skater community and started his competitive career a year later. In 2003 he moved to the Chemnitz Speed Skating Club . In 2006 he ran the German record over 3000 m in the 16/17 age group with 4.05.01. After graduating from high school in 2008 at the Sportgymnasium Chemnitz , he moved to André Unterdörfel in Berlin. Alexej is a sports soldier and part of the Bundeswehr's sports promotion group in Frankenberg . Since 2010 he has been studying complementary medicine at the University of Health and Sport in Berlin.

In the Junior World Championships in 2007 in the Austrian Innsbruck he won along with Patrick Beckert and Eric Rauschenbach second place in the Team Pursuit. Before South Korea they only had to admit defeat to the trio from the Netherlands . In the preliminary round, the three ran a track record with 4.08.20 and left the Dutch trio around Jan Blokhuijsen , Tim Roelofsen and Sjoerd de Vries behind them with 4.08.87.

In 2012 he prevailed against the national competition and became German champion in the great four- way battle . Three times at the start, three times on the podium and thus three times bronze, was the motto of the Pursuit team at the 2011/12 World Cup for the "black and red locomotive".

Baumgärtner is a sports soldier in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr Frankenberg and has the rank of staff sergeant.