Franz Stocher

Franz Stocher

To person
Date of birth	23rd March 1969 (age 51)
nation	Austria
discipline	Road / train
End of career	2005
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2003 - points race
Last updated: January 3, 2018

Franz Stocher (born March 23, 1969 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian cyclist . He is world champion in points race (2003) and five-time Olympic athlete , i.e. participant in the Olympic Games (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004).

Athletic career

Franz Stocher won his first bike races when he was twelve.

By 1987 he had around 400 victories and 12 Austrian championship titles. From then on he specialized in track racing . After two military world championship titles (1992 in the points race and 1993 in the team road competition) several second and third places followed in world and European championships. Before he entered the statistics as “eternal second”, he won the world championship title in the points race in 2003 .

In 2004, Stocher took part in the Olympic Games for the fifth time, something that no other cyclist had succeeded in doing before. After 25 years of cycling, he drove his farewell race on May 6, 2005 in Purkersdorf near Vienna. By then he had won 28 titles as national cycling champion.

Professional

From July 2005 to May 2013, Franz Stocher was employed by the Lower Austrian provincial government for cycling matters and bringing together tourism and sport. From 2005 to 2009 and from 2013 to 2017 Franz Stocher was a member of the public council of the ORF , representative area “Sport” (additional function: member of the program committee).

In addition, at the request of the late former Interior Minister Liese Prokop , Franz Stocher was a member of the board of the Sportunion Österreich for the field of competitive sports until November 2014 .
Franz Stocher has been managing director of the Lower Austria sports center in St. Pölten since June 2013 .

Honors

• In 2001 and 2003, Franz Stocher was named Austrian cyclist of the year .

Successes (selection)

train

1997

• Austrian champion - points race

1998

• Austrian champion - points race

2000

• World Championship - points race
• Austrian champion - points race

2001

• World Championship - points race
• European Championship - Omnium
• Austrian champion - points race, two-man team race (with Roland Garber )

2002

• World Championship - points race, two-man team race (with Roland Garber )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Moscow - two-man team driving (with Roland Garber )
• UEC Derny European Championship - behind Cees Stam
• Austrian champion - points race, two-man team race (with Roland Garber )

2003

• World Champion - points race
• Austrian champion - points race, two-man team race (with Roland Garber )

Street

1994

• Uniqa Classic

Awards

• Title "Austrian cyclist" in 2001 and 2003
• Gold medal for services to the federal state of Lower Austria
• Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria 2001

Web links

• Franz Stocher in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Entry for Franz Stocher in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Memory of the country - people: Franz Stocher. In: gedaechtnisdeslandes.at. August 1, 2003, accessed December 31, 2017 . 
2. ↑ VCOE.at  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Portrait of Franz Stocher at ORF.at ( memento of the original from April 17, 2015 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.  
4. ↑ Sportunion.at ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2015 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. (queried on February 4, 2010) 
5. ↑ team. (No longer available online.) In: Sportzentrum Niederösterreich. Archived from the original on January 1, 2018 ; accessed on December 31, 2017 . 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.