Andreas Beikirch

Andreas Beikirch (2011)

Andreas Beikirch (Coastal Tour 2007)

Andreas Beikirch (born March 29, 1970 in Hilden ) is a former German track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

In 1988 Andreas Beikirch was junior track cycling world champion in points and German champion in team pursuit , together with Lars Teutenberg , Holger Stach and Torsten Schmidt . Two years later he won his first six-day race in Nouméa in New Caledonia . In 2000 he became German champion for the first time in the Madison with Manfred Donike ; Overall, he won ten German championship titles in the course of his career. In the same discipline, he became European champion in 2003 (with Andreas Kappes ) and German champion for the second time in 2006 (with Robert Bartko ). Beikirch won further six-day races in Dortmund, Stuttgart and Bremen.

On the road, Beikirch was able to win the Mi-Août en Bretagne , the Great Westphalia Prize Dortmund and a stage each at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce and the Lower Saxony Tour between 1997 and 1999 . In 2002 he won the Tour de Neuss and Rund um Jülich for Team Cologne . A year later he was the first of the City Night Hamm. From 2005 Beikirch drove for the Sparkasse team . In his first year there he won the Mönchengladbach-Rheydt Criterium and the WAZ Grand Prix. In 2006 and 2007 Beikirch was successful on one section of the Gelsennet tour. On July 25, 2008, he was involved in a traffic accident in Düsseldorf, where he broke three ribs, a shoulder blade and collarbone and suffered a concussion. Beikirch was admitted to the University Clinic in Düsseldorf, but was released three days later.

With the 2009/2010 season, Beikirch ended his career after 117 starts and four victories in six-day races. In his hometown club VfR Büttgen , however, he continues to work in the department management of the cycling department.

Successes - road

1997

• Wed-Août en Bretagne

1998

• Great Westphalia Prize Dortmund

1999

• a stage tour of Lower Saxony
• a stage Grand Prix Cycliste de Beauce

Successes - rail

1988

• Junior world champion points race
• German champion in team pursuit , together with Lars Teutenberg , Holger Stach and Torsten Schmidt . Z

1990

• Six days Nouméa (with Frank Kühn )

2000

• German Champion Madison (with Olaf Pollack )

2002

• Six days Dortmund (with Andreas Kappes )

2003

• European champion two-man team driving (with Andreas Kappes )

2004

• Six-day race Stuttgart (with Andreas Kappes and Gerd Dörich )

2005

• Six days Bremen (with Robert Bartko )

2006

• German champion two-man team driving (with Robert Bartko )

Teams

• 1997 Team E-plus Service
• 1998–1999 The Continentale Olympia
• 2000–2001 Agro-Adler Brandenburg
• 2002 Team Cologne
• 2005–2009 Sparkasse team

Web links

• Andreas Beikirch (short information from six days of racing.info)
• Andreas Beikirch in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Damn good luck". NGZ-Online, August 29, 2009, accessed December 14, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Last season for Teutenberg and Beikirch. six days of racing.info, November 17, 2009, accessed on December 14, 2013 . 
3. ^ Homepage of VfR Büttgen , accessed on April 29, 2016

Web links

• Andreas Beikirch in the Radsportseiten.net database