Doreen Heinze

Doreen Heinze
	Doreen Heinze (2014)
To person
Date of birth	July 28, 1996
nation	Germany
discipline	Track cycling
Societies)
2008–2009 ; 2010–2013 ; 2014–2015	Erkneraner RC 1996 ; RSC Cottbus; RSC Turbine Erfurt
Most important successes
	UCI Track World Championships for Juniors 2014 : - Team sprint 2014 : - Keirin
	Last updated: February 27, 2019

Doreen Heinze (born July 28, 1996 in Berlin ) is a former German track cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2011 Doreen Heinze became German youth sprint champion , the following year she won the junior team sprint title together with Angelina Buchan . At the Junior European Championships 2013 she won three medals, silver in the 500-meter time trial and with Lisa Klein in the team sprint and bronze in the sprint. The following year, she and Emma Hinze became the European Junior Champion in the team sprint in a new German record time of 34.689 seconds . She finished second in the time trial and also set a new German junior record with 35.803 seconds.

At the junior track world championships around a week later, Heinze and Hinze won the world championship title in the team sprint, Heinze also bronze in the Keirin . In autumn 2014 she won the junior sprint title as well as silver in the time trial and keirin at the German championships in Cottbus . In the team sprint of the elite, she became German champion together with Kristina Vogel .

In the early summer of 2015, Doreen Heinze fell, suffered a traumatic brain injury and also got pneumonia. At the end of the year she announced her retirement from competitive sports for health reasons.