Bill Huck

Bill Huck
	Bill Huck (2017)
To person
Date of birth	March 9, 1965
nation	Germany
discipline	Train (short term)
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Team (s) as coach
1998–2000 ; 2000–2001 ; 2008 ; 2015 ; 2016 ; 2017–2018 ; 2019	National team South Africa ; National team UK ; National team Barbados ; National team USA ; National team Spain ; National team Netherlands ; LKT Team Brandenburg
	Last updated: May 13, 2020

Bill Huck (born March 9, 1965 in Dresden ) is a German cycling trainer and former track cyclist . He was twice world champion in the sprint .

Athletic career

He won his first national title in July 1982 when he was GDR champion in the youth class A sprint in Leipzig . 1982 took Bill Huck, who for the SC Dynamo Berlin drove to second place at the Track World Championships in Sprint Junior. In 1989 in Lyon and 1990 in Maebashi he was world champion in the sprint of amateurs. In 1986 and 1990, Huck also won the sprint classic Grand Prix de Paris . From 1987 to 1989, Huck won the International Sprinter Championship in Berlin (which was held on the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle track in Berlin), one of the most popular track races in the GDR. Huck won the last two sprint events of the GDR Grand Prix .

After reunification , Huck took second place in the sprint of amateurs at the 1991 World Track Championships in Stuttgart and came third in the 1993 German championship.

doping

In 1991 Huck was banned from the Italian cycling federation FCI from September 20th to December 20th for doping offenses . During a time trial record attempt in Bassano del Grappa , Italy , traces of the anabolic steroid nortestosterone were found - in the same as in 20 other drivers . All positive tested drivers and also Huck were acquitted by the UCI due to procedural errors.

Professional

After his retirement from active cycling, Bill Huck worked as a trainer, u. a. from 1998 to 2000 as coach of the South African national track cycling team, from 2000 to 2001 in Great Britain and from 2008 as coach of the national team of Barbados . Beginning June 2015, he was responsible for the sprinters in the US in the Velodrome of Colorado Springs . From November 2016 Bill Huck worked as a trainer for the Spanish track cycling center on Mallorca. From September 2017 onwards, he worked as a national sprint coach in the Netherlands for a year . On February 1, 2019, he started working as a strength and conditioning trainer as well as a sighting trainer in the BMX area for the LKT Team Brandenburg . Starting in 2019, he is preparing Eric Engler from RSC Cottbus for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo .