Indoor cycling world championships 2005

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 56.7 "  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 25.4"  E

Indoor Cycling World Championships 2005
date		November 25-27, 2005
Host country		Germany
venue		Freiburg in Breisgau
winner
Bike ball		Germany
Artistic bike 1 series women		Germany
Artificial bike 1 series men		Germany
Artificial bike 2-person women		Germany
Artificial bike 2 men		Germany
Artificial bike for 4 women		Czech Republic
Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
1	Germany	5	4th	0	9
2	Czech Republic	1	1	2	4th
3	Austria	0	1	2	3
4th	Switzerland	0	0	2	2
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The Indoor Cycling World Championships 2005 took place from November 25th to 27th, 2005 in Freiburg im Breisgau , the competition venue was the halls of the Freiburg Exhibition Center . There were competitions in cycling and artificial cycling . The most successful nation was host Germany with five gold medals.

A total of 156 athletes from 20 nations took part. The only one that did not come from the European or Asian region was Guinea , which was represented by an artificial cyclist, but who competed out of competition. Nonetheless, this was the first time an African rider had participated since the 2000 World Indoor Cycling Championships.

organization

The host of the world championship was the RSV Breisgauperle Denzlingen in the form of a club that was set up especially for this event.

The world championship was a success in terms of audience appeal, but not in financial terms: the association for the implementation of the indoor cycling World Championships 2005 eV had to file for bankruptcy due to a deficit in the six-figure range.

Venue

The competition site ...

... and the training area

The entire event was held in the halls of the Freiburg Exhibition Center. The grandstands, which were temporarily erected especially for this occasion, had a capacity of 6248 seats. In addition to the competition arena, a sports area with accommodation and a training area was set up.

Bike ball

A two-man team competition was held for the men.

mode

The tournament consisted of three groups: group A with the six strongest teams and groups B1 and B2 with five weaker teams each. In all groups there was one round in which everyone played against each other once. In the intermediate round of the Group A teams, the team placed first in the preliminary round met the sixth placed, the second placed fifth and the third placed fourth. The three winners qualified for the final round, in which each team had to compete once with the other two. The first and second placed finally played the world champion in the final game. In the intermediate round of the group B teams, the first placed in group B1 met the first placed in group B2, the second placed in group B1 against the runner-up in group B2, etc. Group A to ascend or stay in group A.

Group A

table

Pl.	team	player	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Czech Republic	Miroslav Berger / Jiří Hrdlička	5	3	1	1	24:14	10
2	Germany	Steve Pfaffenberger / Mike Pfaffenberger	5	3	1	1	22:13	10
3	Switzerland	Peter Jiricek / Timo Reichen	5	3	1	1	20:11	10
4th	Austria	Dietmar Schneider / Simon König	5	1	3	1	15:15	6th
5	Belgium	Christoph Baudu / Rik Deuvaert	5	1	2	2	15:14	5
6th	France	Jaques Ohl / Stephane Bauer	5	0	0	5	05:34	0

Game results

11/25/2005	Czech Republic	-	France	9: 1
	Switzerland	-	Germany	5: 3
	Austria	-	Belgium	2: 2
11/26/2005	Czech Republic	-	Germany	3: 5
	Austria	-	France	4: 3
	Switzerland	-	Belgium	4: 1
	Germany	-	France	8-0
	Czech Republic	-	Belgium	5: 2
	Switzerland	-	Austria	3: 3
	Germany	-	Belgium	3: 3
	Switzerland	-	France	6: 1
	Czech Republic	-	Austria	4: 4
	Belgium	-	France	7-0
	Austria	-	Germany	2: 3
	Czech Republic	-	Switzerland	3: 2

Intermediate round

11/27/2005	Czech Republic	-	France	7-0
	Germany	-	Belgium	5: 3
	Switzerland	-	Austria	2: 2 , 2: 4 i. V.

Final round

table

Pl.	team	player	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Czech Republic	Miroslav Berger / Jiří Hrdlička	2	1	1	0	06: 40	4th
2	Germany	Steve Pfaffenberger / Mike Pfaffenberger	2	1	1	0	07: 60	4th
3	Austria	Dietmar Schneider / Simon König	2	0	0	2	02: 50	0

Game results

11/27/2005	Czech Republic	-	Germany	4: 4
	Czech Republic	-	Austria	2-0
	Germany	-	Austria	3: 2

final

11/27/2005

Czech Republic

-

Germany

3: 5

Group B1

table

Pl.	team	player	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Japan	Tuzuki Katsumi / Ko Matsuda	4th	4th	0	0	31: 09	12
2	Slovakia	Robert Rizmann / Dalibor Roznik	4th	3	0	1	33: 08	9
3	Turkey	Osman Degirmenzi / Halil Er	4th	2	0	2	18:25	6th
4th	Malaysia	Zulkefi Senin / Samsinar Abd Halim	4th	1	0	3	16:23	3
5	Netherlands	Haike Erens / Mikel van Geffen	4th	0	0	4th	04:37	0

Game results

11/25/2005	Japan	-	Turkey	10: 2
	Slovakia	-	Malaysia	11: 2
	Netherlands	-	Turkey	2: 8
	Japan	-	Malaysia	6: 2
	Slovakia	-	Netherlands	11: 0
	Malaysia	-	Turkey	5: 6
	Japan	-	Netherlands	11: 2
	Slovakia	-	Turkey	8: 2
	Malaysia	-	Netherlands	7-0
	Japan	-	Slovakia	4: 3

Group B2

table

Pl.	team	player	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Croatia	Mihael Posedi / Jasmin Fazlic	4th	4th	0	0	31: 03	12
2	Romania	Dorian Doroftei / Mircea Tric	4th	3	0	1	14:10	9
3	Spain	Daniel Cortés Balsalobre / Carlos Prieto	4th	1	0	3	06:12	3
4th	Hong Kong	Ho Wing Tai / Lo Man Fai	4th	1	0	3	11:23	3
5	Hungary	Tamas Szitas / Istvan Borka	4th	1	0	3	05:19	3

Game results

11/25/2005	Croatia	-	Spain	3: 1
	Romania	-	Hungary	3: 1
	Hong Kong	-	Spain	3: 4
	Croatia	-	Hungary	11: 1
	Romania	-	Hong Kong	6: 2
	Hungary	-	Spain	1-0
	Croatia	-	Hong Kong	11: 1
	Romania	-	Spain	5: 1
	Hungary	-	Hong Kong	2: 5
	Croatia	-	Romania	6-0

Finals group B

11/26/2005	Netherlands	-	Hungary	3:10
	Malaysia	-	Hong Kong	2: 2 , 2: 0 i. V.
	Turkey	-	Spain	6: 6 , 1: 3 i. V.
	Slovakia	-	Romania	2-0
	Japan	-	Croatia	2: 3

Relegation

11/27/2005

France

-

Croatia

5: 1

France remained in group A.

Artistic cycling

There were competitions in 1-man, 2-man and 4-man artificial cycling for women and 1 and 2-man artificial cycling for men.

mode

Each participant or each team had to drive a freestyle. This lasted a maximum of six minutes and included 28 for the individual starters and 22 for the duos, each with a certain level of difficulty, which, added together with the basic number of points, served as the basis for the evaluation (called points). The end result was obtained after deducting the points of failure (points left out).

Women

singles

25 athletes from 14 nations took part in the competition.

Table finals

rank	country	driver	established	inserted
1.	Germany	Claudia Wieland	337.20	328.60
2.	Germany	Sandra Beck	333.00	325.65
3.	Austria	Denise Boller	338.60	323.57
4th	Austria	Sarah Kohl	333.20	315.83
7th	Switzerland	Birgit Temnitzer	321.60	307.31
9.	Switzerland	Anita Kälin	327.80	298.75

Double

16 duos from eleven nations took part in the competition.

Table finals

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	inserted
1.	Germany	Caroline Ingelfinger	Katja Knaak	323.40	310.49
2.	Germany	Katrin Schultheis	Sandra Sprinkmeier	321.40	309.80
3.	Switzerland	Eliane Zeller	Petra Storchenegger	302.60	295.61
4th	Switzerland	Letizia Stahel	Seraina Stahel	305.40	294.01
6th	Austria	Katharina Ehrne	Melanie Boehler	288.60	275.29

Team of 4

Eight teams from eight nations were registered for the competition.

Table finals

rank	country	Athletes	established	inserted
1.	Czech Republic	Marketa Tobolíková Jana Oplocká Katerina Pribylová Michaela Matousková	361.00	352.69
2.	Austria	Silke Melbinger Melanie Melbinger Martina Schwar Kathrin Hagen	358.40	351.37
3.	Switzerland	Daniela Keller Corinna Paul Doris Roth Angela Bollinger	362.00	350.53
4th	Germany	Christine Zimmermann Manuela Dieterle Katja Gaißer Simone Rudolf	365.00	345.57

Men's

singles

Eighteen athletes from eleven nations were registered for the competition.

Table finals

rank	country	driver	established	inserted
1.	Germany	David Schnabel	345.50	343.97
2.	Germany	Robin Hartmann	347.40	342.54
3.	Czech Republic	Milan Krivánek	333.20	327.29
4th	France	Ivan Do-Duc	340.80	317.77
8th.	Austria	Thomas Lins	309.60	298.43
10.	Switzerland	Philipp Kaesermann	310.00	292.54
11.	Austria	Manuel Frick	302.20	282.20

Double

Eight duos from five nations were entered. The German duo Simon Altvater / Nico Kunert was able to improve their own world record with 326.15 points.

Table finals

rank	country	Driver 1	Driver 2	established	inserted
1.	Germany	Simon grandfather	Nico Kunert	332.00	326.15
2.	Germany	Felix Niederberger	Jonas Niederberger	328.40	316.99
3.	Czech Republic	Petr Bartúnek	Kamil Bartúnek	296.00	287.03
4th	Switzerland	Beni Jost	Joel Schmid	292.80	282.37
5.	Austria	Andreas Fritsch	Matthias Fritsch	304.60	280.80
6th	Switzerland	Thomas Fäh	Christian Fäh	297.40	280.37

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Indoor Cycling World Championships in Freiburg (D) vmcliestal.ch
2. ↑ World Cup 2005 national reports ( Memento from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Dangerous business around the bike badische-zeitung.de
4. ↑ Maps ( Memento of October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Currently on these pages ( Memento from October 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Official website of the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2005 ( Memento from December 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )