Eyk Pokorny

Eyk Pokorny

Eyk Pokorny (2010)
To person
Date of birth	November 22, 1969
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
discipline	Train (short term)
Societies)
	TSC Berlin
Team (s)
1997-1999	XXL natural gas
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 1991 - tandem race
Team (s) as coach
2007–	Olympic base in Brandenburg
Last updated: October 12, 2019

Eyk Pokorny (born November 22, 1969 in Berlin ) is a former German track cyclist and today's cycling trainer.

Cycling career

Pokorny started cycling in 1980 in the BSG Rotation Berlin.

Eyk Pokorny was a member of the national track team of the Association of German Cyclists from 1990 to 2001 . In the course of his career he was twice world champion (1987 as a junior in sprint ), eight times German champion, five times world cup winner, three times vice world champion and three times European champion in sprint, tandem sprint and team sprint (with Jens Fiedler and Sören Lausberg ).

Pokorny's greatest success was winning the title in tandem at the UCI Track World Championships in 1991 in Stuttgart with Emanuel Raasch . In 1988 he won the Polish Grand Prix for track sprinters.

Coaching career

Pokorny as supervisor of Maximilian Levy

Since November 2005, Eyk Pokorny has worked alongside other activities as a state trainer for the cycling sprint at the Olympic base in Cottbus / Frankfurt O. a. Keirin World Champion Maximilian Levy . In November 2013 he successfully completed his studies as a qualified trainer at the Cologne Trainer Academy of the German Olympic Sports Confederation in Cologne. On 14 December 2013 he was in Potsdam as Coach of the Year of Brandenburg awarded. Up to this point in time, the athletes he supervised had won 26 international medals.

successes

1986

• Junior World Championship - Sprint

1987

• Junior World Champion - Sprint

1991

• World Champion - Tandem Race (with Emanuel Raasch )
• German Champion - Tandem Race (with Emanuel Raasch )

1992

• German Champion - Tandem Race (with Emanuel Raasch )

1993

• World Championship - Sprint

1995

• * European Champion - Omnium Sprint

1997

• World Championship - Team Sprint (with Jan van Eijden and Sören Lausberg )
• European Champion - Sprint-Omnium
• German champion - sprint, team sprint (with Jan van Eijden and Sören Lausberg )

1998

• World Championship - Team Sprint (with Stefan Nimke and Sören Lausberg )
• World Cup in Berlin - team sprint (with Jens Fiedler and Sören Lausberg )

1999

• World Championship - Team Sprint (with Stefan Nimke and Sören Lausberg )
• German Champion - Team Sprint (with Jan van Eijden and Jens Fiedler )

2001

• German Champion - Team Sprint (with Sören Lausberg and Jens Fiedler )

Web links

Commons : Eyk Pokorny  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Taubmann, Johannes Zimoch, Wilfried Schulz (eds.): Stand up again and again . Spotless-Verlag (cooperation), Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-937943-03-X , p. 327 .
2. ↑ Joel Godaert: VeloPlus . Travel Marketing, Mechelen 2009, p. 500 .
3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 25/1988 . Berlin, S. 1 .
4. ↑ Ex-tandem world champion Pokorny successfully completes his diploma as a trainer. rad-net.de, November 13, 2013, accessed on December 14, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Cottbus cycling trainer Eyk Pokorny is trainer of the year in Brandenburg. December 14, 2013, accessed December 14, 2013 . 
6. ^ German Olympic Society: Cottbus. In: dog-bewegt.de. October 21, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017 .