Hanka Kupfernagel

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Hanka Kupfernagel Road cycling
Hanka Kupfernagel (2012)
Hanka Kupfernagel (2012)
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Date of birth March 19, 1974
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Road / cross-country / train / MTB
Most important successes
Olympic games
2000 silver - road racing
UCI World Championships Individual Time Trial (30 km)
2007 World Champion - road racing
Cyclocross world championships
2000, 2001, 2005, 2008 World Champion
Last updated: October 30, 2016

Hanka Kupfernagel (born March 19, 1974 in Gera ) is a former German cyclist . She became world champion eight times. For over 20 years she was a formative sportswoman in women's cycling . In total, she won 18 medals at world championships, one silver at the Olympic Games and was German champion 35 times.

Athletic career

Hanka Kupfernagel grew up in Neustadt an der Orla and started cycling at BSG Motor Neustadt / Orla at the age of eleven before moving to the GDR performance center SG Wismut Gera at the age of 13 .

In her specialty, the cyclo-cross race , she was dominant in Germany and was one of the best in the world. When the Women's Cyclocross World Championships were introduced in 2000, she was the first to achieve the title of world champion. In the following years she finished on the podium every time, in 2001, 2005 and 2008 she won further gold. She was also successful in road cycling: at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 she won silver in road races and was awarded the silver laurel leaf for this - like all German medalists at the Olympic Games in 2000 . From 1997 to 1999 she was first in the world rankings and in 2007 she won the individual time trial at the road cycling world championships in Stuttgart .

On the track she became Junior World Champion in 1991 and 1992, but in the following years she concentrated on the road. She only came back to the track in 2004 and qualified straight away with three third places at the World Cups in Manchester and Moscow for the World Track Championships , where she narrowly missed the Olympic qualification. The following year she had to take a break from competition for several months due to a burnout syndrome .

On July 30, 2016, Hanka Kupfernagel completed her farewell race as part of the Après Tour Gera together with friends from cycling.

In 2018, Hanka Kupfernagel was named as the first woman by the organizer ASO to regulate the Germany Tour . As a companion on the motorcycle, she will ensure that the race runs smoothly together with the Frenchman Franck Perque .

In January 2019, after a three-year break from racing, Kupfernagel made a comeback at the German cyclo-cross championships.

Personal and family

Born in Gera / Thuringia, she grew up with 3 brothers in Neustadt / Orla. 1988–1990 she went to the sports school in Gera, then 1 year to the ASK Frankfurt / Oder . From 1994 to 2000 she lived and trained in Berlin and Brandenburg . After the Olympics in Sydney, she became an honorary citizen of Werder / Havel, where she lived until 2004. She then moved to her trainer and manager Mike Kluge , with whom she was in a relationship until mid-2009, near Freiburg .

Her brother Stefan Kupfernagel was also successful in cycling.

Palmarès

Hanka Kupfernagel at the International Women's Tour of Thuringia 2012

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Waldera: Hanka Kupfernagel hangs up her racing bike shoes! In: velomotion.de. May 19, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016 .
  2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 26/1987 . Berlin 1987, p. 1 .
  3. ↑ Hanka Kupfernagel: The all-rounder. In: Spox.com. January 30, 2009, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Hanka Kupfernagel becomes the first female regulator of the ASO - cycling at. In: rad-net.de. August 7, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Hanka Kupfernagel is making a comeback. In: bdr-medienservice.de. January 9, 2019, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ badische-zeitung.de of December 13, 2008: The greats of yesterday: Mike Kluge
  7. ↑ bikesportnews.de of November 2nd, 2009: Kupfernagel: Season entry & separation from Kluge  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bikesportnews.de  

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SURNAME Copper nail, Hanka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera