Erik Weispfennig

Erik Weispfennig

Erik Weispfennig (2017)
To person
Date of birth	13th August 1969
nation	Germany
discipline	Train (endurance)
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2000 - two-man team driving
Last updated: June 28, 2017

Erik Weispfennig (born August 13, 1969 in Iserlohn ) is a former German cyclist .

Cycling career

In 1989 Erik Weispfennig became German champion for the first time when he and Stefan Steinweg won the amateur title in the two-man team . He was mainly active as a track cyclist , especially in six-day races, of which he competed 84. As an amateur he started for the club BRC Opel Schüler Berlin .

In his active career, which began in 1977, Erik Weispfennig was world champion in Madison in 2000 , together with Stefan Steinweg (the first German world champion in this discipline), twice vice world champion with the track four, five times world cup winner and six times German champion . Weispfennig was also the International Australian Champion twice , once together with Steinweg and once more with Lars Teutenberg .

Professional

From 2006 on, Weispfennig was the sporting director of the Sparkasse team (later the Nutrixxion team) and the organizer of the “ Sixdaysnight ” in Oberhausen / Baden. From 2011 he advised the German racing team UCI Continental Team NSP in the marketing area. He has been the sports director of the Bremen six-day race since 2012 . He also operates two “coffee shops” (as of 2010). Since 2011 he has been the Technical Delegate of the World Cycling Federation UCI .

In April 2019, Erik Weispfennig succeeded Udo Sprenger as the new Vice President of the Association of German Cyclists for contract sport.

successes

Erik Weispfennig with his sons Nils (left) and Tim, who are also active as cyclists (2016).

train

1989

• German amateur champion - two-man team driving (with Stefan Steinweg )

1990

• World Championship (Amateurs) - Team Pursuit (with Andreas Walzer , Stefan Steinweg and Michael Glöckner )

1993

• German Champion - Team Pursuit (with Lars Teutenberg , Guido Fulst and Stefan Steinweg )

2000

• World Champion - two-man team driving (with Stefan Steinweg )

Web links

• Erik Weispfennig in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Brief portrait on the Sparkasse team
• Homepage of Erik Weispfennig

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rad Sport Kontakt GmbH (ed.): Rad-Bundesliga 1993 . Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 27 .
2. ↑ Wackernagel becomes sports director for the NSP team. In: radsport-news.com. September 8, 2010, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
3. ↑ "09/20/2010 Opening in Karlsruhe at the main station" in the News section
4. ↑ ^{a b} The new Vice-Presidents. In: bdr-medienservice.de. April 6, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .