Christian Meyer (cyclist)
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Date of birth | December 12, 1969 |
nation | Germany |
discipline | Street |
Driver type | Time trial |
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Current team | End of career |
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1992 | Hannoverscher Cycling Club from 1912 |
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Last updated: February 6, 2016 |
Christian Meyer (born December 12, 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a former German cyclist .
Athletic career
Christian Meyer, formerly active in the Hannoverscher Radsport-Club from 1912 , won the team time trial over 100 kilometers at the Olympic Summer Games in Barcelona in 1992 , together with Bernd Dittert , Uwe Peschel and Michael Rich . In 1993 he was runner-up in the team time trial for amateurs with Rich, Peschel and Andreas Walzer .
In 1994 Meyer started at the Giro d'Italia Dilettanti . He fell, tore his lungs, broke two thoracic vertebrae and fell into a coma . Since then he has been paraplegic .
The trained banker lives with his family in Denzlingen , where he is also politically active.
Web links
- Christian Meyer in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Christian Meyer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannoverscher Radsport Club von 1912 eV - 1987 to 2012. (No longer available online.) In: hrc-hannover.de. Archived from the original on February 6, 2016 ; accessed on February 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Edda Rogge, Reinhard Kramer , Thomas Munz: Hannoverscher Radsport Club von 1912 eV A foray through 100 years of club history , Hannover: Eigenverlag, 2012, p. 51; online on the club website
- ^ Alfred Weinzierl: Live out the nightmare . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1996 ( online ).
- ↑ 97 Sportsman of the Year: Glück im Pech ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sportler-des-jahres.de (PDF; page 46)
- ^ Roman Kiener: Denzlingen: An Olympic champion at the council table. In: Badische Zeitung . September 21, 2012, accessed February 6, 2016 .
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SURNAME | Meyer, Christian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |