Carsten Wolf

Carsten Wolf on the Saxony Tour in 1988

Carsten Wolf (born August 26, 1964 in Potsdam , GDR ) is a former German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Wolf learned to be a car mechanic, began his sporting career in 1974 at SG Dynamo Potsdam and went to SC Dynamo Berlin in 1978 . In 1979 he won the Spartakiade gold with the foursome on the track and on the road. He won his first national title in July 1982 at the GDR Championships in the Youth A class in the team time trial and in the points trial. In 1982 Carsten Wolf became Junior World Champion in the single pursuit . In the following years he was able to achieve further podium places at GDR and world championships, primarily in the team pursuit and the points race . In 1988 Carsten Wolf won a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Seoul with the DDR-Bahn-Vierer ( Dirk Meier , Roland Hennig and Steffen Blochwitz ) , for which he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1984 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. In 1989 the GDR quartet (Blochwitz, Thomas Liese , Guido Fulst ) became world champions. On the track of the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin he won the "International Two-Team Championship" in 1985 with Siegbert Müller as a partner.

But Wolf also had success on the road, so he came second in the overall ranking of the Olympia's Tour in the Netherlands in 1988 . In 1989 he won the Lower Saxony Tour . After the fall of the Wall, Carsten Wolf increasingly switched to road and six-day races . He started in 77 six-day races, of which he won four (1994 in Cologne and Zurich with Urs Freuler ; 1997 in Bremen and Stuttgart with Andreas Kappes ). In 1996 he and Kappes took third place in the two-man team at the World Track Championships ; the following year, the two athletes were joint German champions in the same discipline.

In 1999 Carsten Wolf tested positive for doping after being noticed in 1995. He then ended his active career.

literature

• Roger de Maertelaere: Mannen van de Nacht , Eeklo 2000, p. 263.
• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. 2nd updated edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-538-4 , pp. 638-639.

Web links

• Carsten Wolf in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Carsten Wolf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , July 26, 1982, p. 7
2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 33/1982 . Berlin 1982, p. 2 .
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, September 1-2, 1984, p. 4
5. ↑ Berlinonline.de: "Carsten Wolf tested positive"