Carsten Podlesch

Carsten Podlesch

Carsten Podlesch (2006)
To person
Date of birth	6th September 1969
nation	Germany
discipline	Train / road / cross-country
End of career	2008
Societies)
	Zehlendorfer squirrel
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 1994 - Standing race 1992 - Standing race (amateurs)
Last updated: May 29, 2018

Carsten Podlesch (born September 6, 1969 in Berlin ) is a former German cyclist . He is the "eternal world champion" in the standing race .

Athletic career

Carsten Podlesch began his career as a cross-country driver with the Zehlendorfer squirrels . At the age of 19 he switched to the standing bike. In the 21 years of his racing career, he won two world championship titles, three European championships, twelve German championships and, among others, ten stayer victories at the six-day race in Berlin. He won five times at the “World Cup for Stayer”, traditionally held on Christmas Day in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle. From 2001 to 2004 Podlesch drove for the Wiesenhof team .

Podlesch won his last world championship title in 1994 and is therefore an eternal title holder, as there have been no more world championships since then.

Podlesch's father, Rainer , was two times world champion of the amateur standers, his uncle Karsten Podlesch is active as a pacemaker . At the only championship that both contested together, the Carsten Podlesch / Karsten Podlesch team became European standing champions in 2000 in Chemnitz .

Professional

Carsten Podlesch ended his career at the 97th Berlin six-day race on January 29, 2008 and then worked as a qualified fitness economist.

successes

1976

• German amateur champion - team time trial (with Michael Becker , Olaf Paltian and Volker Kassun )

1991

• Amateur World Championship - Standing Race (behind Dieter Durst )

1992

• Amateur World Champion - Standing Race (behind Dieter Durst )

1993

• Amateur World Championship - Standing Race (behind Dieter Durst )
• German champion - standing race

1994

• World Champion - Standing Race (behind Dieter Durst )
• German champion - standing race

1995

• European Championship - Standing Race
• German champion - standing race

1996

• European Championship - Standing Race

1997

• European Championship - Standing Race

1998

• German champion - standing race

2000

• European Champion - Standing Race (behind Karsten Podlesch )
• German champion - standing race

2001

• European champion - standing race
• German champion - standing race

2002

• German champion - standing race

2005

• German champion - standing race

2006

• European Championship - Standing Race
• German champion - standing race

Teams

• 1996 The Continentale Olympia
• 1997–1998 Agro-Adler Brandenburg
• 2002–2004 Wiesenhof team

Web links

Commons : Carsten Podlesch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Carsten Podlesch in the Radsportseiten.net database

• Carsten Podlesch in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ?? Christmas angel ?? Protected Carsten Podlesch in a serious fall before the Christmas price in Dortmund. In: 06.live-radsport.ch. December 25, 2007, accessed May 29, 2018 . 
2. ↑ FIVE Sixdays Leg ends celebrate a tearful farewell. In: bz-berlin.de. January 23, 2008, accessed January 3, 2018 .