Heiko Salzwedel

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Heiko Salzwedel (2015)

Heiko Salzwedel (born April 16, 1957 in Schmalkalden ) is a former German cyclist and today's cycling trainer.

Active career

In his youth, Heiko Salzwedel was a racing driver for SC Cottbus himself ; so he was four times GDR youth and junior champions, once in a two-man team with Volker Winkler .

Coaching career at home and abroad

After completing his active cycling career, Salzwedel trained as a qualified sports scientist at the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig . There he obtained his diploma degree in 1980, the subject of his diploma thesis was “Motivation as a performance-determining factor in performance in the high-performance field of road cycling”.

In 1989, Heiko Salzwedel led the GDR- Bahn four-man consisting of Steffen Blochwitz , Carsten Wolf , Thomas Liese and Guido Fulst to the world championship title . After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he worked as head coach for road cycling and MTB at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra from 1990 to 1998 and trained riders such as Matthew White , Henk Vogels , Cadel Evans , Kathryn Watt , Robbie McEwen and Patrick Jonker . For almost a year he was a speaker for competitive sports at the Association of German Cyclists . Then Salzwedel worked for the British Sports Association (UK Sport). From 2001 to 2003, Salzwedel was the manager of the British cycling association British Cycling (BC). He then worked for the Nürnberger Equipe and for the "T-Mobile Development Program" . Through his agency SL-Sports he looked after sports associations (e.g. the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), Swiss Triathlon, Canadian Speed ​​Skating Association) and racing drivers such as McEwen, Ronny Scholz and Grischa Niermann as well as the triathlete Jan van Berkel .

From 2005 to 2008 Salzwedel was the Danish national coach; under his aegis, the Danish cyclist Mie Bekker Lacota was runner-up in the points race at the 2007 track world championships in Palma . The Danish foursome ( Casper Jørgensen , Jens Erik Madsen , Michael Mørkøv and Alex Rasmussen ) won the bronze medal; this was the first World Championship medal in team pursuit for the Danish federation in 14 years. This success was trumped by winning the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with the foursome. At the World Track Championships in Manchester in 2008 , the Danish athletes trained by Salzwedel were able to win silver medals in the four-man race and in the women's points race ( Trine Schmidt ), as well as a bronze medal in the two-man team race (Michael Mørkøv and Alex Rasmussen).

In 2009, Heiko Salzwedel returned to the British Cycling Federation as Performance Manager. In 2010 he became head coach of the Russian national railway teams from the 2011/2012 season, general manager of RusVelo , a project that a UCI track team and since the road cycling season 2012, two road cycling team - a professional continental team and UCI Women's Teams - maintains . In October 2012 it became known that Salzwedel was only working as a trainer for the team and was relinquishing the role of manager. In 2014 he coached the U-23 national road team in Switzerland and switched to British Cycling again (for the third time) in November 2014 to prepare the British endurance track riders for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . He succeeded Shane Sutton , who in turn became Technical Director of BC after his predecessor David Brailsford will focus on Team Sky . Former racing drivers Paul Manning and Chris Newton act as his assistants .

In February 2016, Bradley Wiggins reported in an interview with the English newspaper The Telegraph that his return to the British rail team was largely due to Salzwedel being signed as the British national coach for the endurance disciplines: “Heiko is like Louis van Gaal or one of these others experienced European manager. He has his philosophy, and he adheres to it. ”The British team, trained by Salzwedel, became the 2016 Olympic champion in the men's team pursuit and set a new world record with 3: 50.265 minutes .

At the beginning of October 2017, Heiko Salzwedel was unexpectedly dismissed from British Cycling as a trainer. The reasons were speculated: on the one hand, a "riot of the drivers" was suspected, on the other hand, the desire of the new competitive sports director Stephen Park to fill the positions in the association with "new faces" after some scandals had occurred in recent times . At the beginning of January 2018, British Cycling announced that the separation from Salzwedel was now official. In January 2018 he started working as an endurance trainer at the Brandenburg Olympic base and thus the LKT Team Brandenburg .

literature

Web links

Commons : Heiko Salzwedel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 19/1975 . Berlin 1975, p. 2 .
  2. ↑ Heiko Salzwedel: Motivation as a performance-determining factor in performance in the high-performance field of road cycling . University of Leipzig, Faculty of Sports Science ,, 1980 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on February 6, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Cyclingweekly.co.uk: Heiko Salzwedel to return to British Cycling accessed on March 24, 2010 (English)
  4. ↑ Salzwedel and Dornbusch direct RusVelo teams to radsport-news.com v. February 22, 2012
  5. ↑ Salzwedel only Rusvelo-Trainer on rbb-online.de v. October 13, 2012
  6. ↑ Heiko Salzwedel is the coach of the men under 23 Street. Swiss Cycling, January 2014, accessed January 9, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Heiko Salzwedel is retiring as U23 national coach. Swiss Cycling, accessed October 5, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Heiko Salzwedel rejoins British Cycling coaching staff in restructuring. Sky Sports, October 10, 2014, accessed October 10, 2014 .
  9. ^ Gary Anderson: British Cycling announce changes to track coaching structure in build-up to Rio 2016. October 10, 2014, accessed on November 2, 2014 (English).
  10. ↑ Wiggins: Salzwedel is like Louis van Gaal. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed March 1, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Track bike: British win, BDR is fifth. In: spox.com. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
  12. ^ British Cycling fire Olympic mastermind Salzwedel. In: Cycling News. October 12, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
  13. ↑ British Cycling coach Salzwedel sacked. In: espn.co.uk. October 13, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
  14. ↑ British Cycling confirms Heiko Salzwedel has left coaching role. In: skysports.com. January 2, 2018, accessed January 2, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Salzwedel becomes a trainer in Brandenburg. In: rad-net.de. January 19, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Salzwedel, Heiko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cycling trainer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmalkalden