Christian Meyer (cyclist)

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Christian Meyer Road cycling
To person
Date of birth December 12, 1969
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
Driver type Time trial
To the team
Current team End of career
Societies)
1992 Hannoverscher Cycling Club from 1912
Most important successes
Olympic games
goldOlympic champion in team time trial 1992
World championships
Vice world champion in team time trial 1993
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hrc-hannover.de
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Alfred Weinzierl: Live out the nightmare . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1996 ( online ).
  4. ↑ 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)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportler-des-jahres.de
  5. ^ Roman Kiener: Denzlingen: An Olympic champion at the council table. In: Badische Zeitung . September 21, 2012, accessed February 6, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau