Jens Lehmann (cyclist)

Jens Lehmann Member of the Bundestag (2017)

Jens Lehmann (born December 19, 1967 in Stolberg (Harz) ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and former cyclist . He has been active in cycling since 1980 and has been a two-time Olympic champion , six-time world champion and multiple German and GDR champion in track cycling . In the federal election 2017 Lehmann was in the constituency 152 Leipzig I as Direct candidate selected.

Life

Jens Lehmann completed his training as a maintenance mechanic in 1988. Until 2005 he was an active cyclist. In 2006 he graduated as a sports manager (IST) in Düsseldorf, and in 2010 he graduated as a state-certified educator. Until his election as a member of the Bundestag in 2017, Lehmann worked as an educator in the after-school care center of the Machern elementary school.

Jens Lehmann lives in Leipzig-Engelsdorf, has been married to GDR road cycling champion Gabi Lehmann since 1990 and has a daughter and a son.

Cycling career

Jens Lehmann

To person
Date of birth	19th December 1967 (age 52)
nation	Germany
discipline	Cycling
End of career	2005
Team (s)
1981–1997 1998–2000 2000–2003 2003–2005	SC DHFK Team Köstritzer Team Nürnberger Team Köstritzer
Most important successes
Olympic champion Barcelona 1992 (team pursuit) Olympic Champion Sydney 2000 (Team Pursuit) Olympic runner-up Sydney 2000 (single pursuit) Olympic runner-up Barcelona 1992 (single pursuit) World Champion: 2000 Manchester (Single Pursuit & Team Pursuit) 1999 Berlin (team pursuit) 1994 Palermo (team pursuit) 1991 Stuttgart (individual pursuit & team pursuit) German champions: 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997,1998,1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 (single pursuit) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 (team pursuit)
Last updated: September 26, 2018

Jens Lehmann began his sporting career as a football goalkeeper at TSV Rossla . At the age of twelve he switched to cycling and promptly won his first race. With the team of the BSG Mifa Sangerhausen he won his first German championship in 1980 in the team time trial of his age group. He then switched to the children's and youth sports school of the SC DHfK Leipzig .

In 1989 Lehmann became vice world champion in the single pursuit of amateurs . Two years later he became the amateurs world champion in the 4,000 meter team pursuit (track foursome) and the 4,000 meter individual pursuit. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona he won gold with the track four and silver in the single pursuit. In 1994, another world championship was added with the four-man track.

Lehmann was not nominated for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta . After changing the national coach, Lehmann was brought back to the team and again won the world championship title in the track four in 1999 .

In the single pursuit during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Lehmann won a medal again despite a training accident, the silver one, where he had to admit defeat to his teammate Robert Bartko in the final . In the team pursuit, he won the gold medal together with Bartko, Guido Fulst and Daniel Becke , the four-man being the first team ever to break the four-minute limit with 3: 59: 710 minutes and thus set a new world record over this route.

When the team of the Bahn foursome (Jens Lehmann, Daniel Becke , Sebastian Siedler and Christian Bach ) was reformed for the 2003 World Championships in Stuttgart by officials of the Federation of German Cyclists , Lehmann followed a boycott call by his trainer Jens Lang , so that the competitions in the Team pursuit for the first time since the existence of this discipline without a German participation.

BDR President Sylvia Schenk and Sports Director Burckhard Bremer responded by suspending the team from the national team and for the Olympic Games. Bans of two years were imposed on Lehmann and Becke and one year on settlers. This power struggle between officials and athletes eventually led to a legal battle. Due to protests, the sentences were finally reduced significantly. The sanctions against Lehmann were lifted on January 13, 2004 by the BDR.

Lehmann was not nominated by BDR for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens on the grounds that he was too old. No medal chances were attributed to the newly put together German Bahn foursome; its fourth place exceeded expectations.

On September 3rd, 2004 Jens Lehmann won the single pursuit at the German track cycling championship in his hometown Leipzig and was thus German champion in this discipline for the tenth time. He also won gold in the team pursuit.

From 1981 to 1997 Jens Lehmann belonged to the SC DHfK Leipzig and in 1998 moved to Köstritzer. In 2001/2002 he drove for the Nürnberger team .

On September 17, 2005, a farewell race for Jens Lehmann took place on the Alfred-Rosch-Kampfbahn in Leipzig.

Politics and volunteering

Jens Lehmann has been the elected city councilor in Leipzig for constituency 2 with the districts of Anger-Crottendorf , Sellerhausen - Stünz , Paunsdorf , Mölkau , Engelsdorf , Baalsdorf , Althen and Kleinpösna since 2004 . He is currently a member of the Sports Committee and the Supervisory Board of Sportbäder Leipzig GmbH. In addition, since 2009 he has been chairman of the CDU local association in Althen, Engelsdorf, Kleinpösna and Hirschfeld.

For the 2005 Bundestag election , Lehmann ran as a direct candidate for the CDU in the Leipzig I constituency (152) , but was not elected. In the run-up to the 2017 federal election , the CDU members nominated him again as a direct candidate for the constituency. Lehmann prevailed against the former constituency member Bettina Kudla and other competitors.

On September 24, 2017, Jens Lehmann won the direct mandate with 43,919 first votes (27.5%) and thus moved into the 19th German Bundestag as a directly elected member . He is currently a member of the Defense Committee and Petitions Committee for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

Lehmann is Vice President of the City Sports Association of Leipzig and, parallel to his work as a member of the Bundestag, a member of the city council.

Awards and honors

• 1992 Sports Bambi
• 1992 Silver Laurel Leaf of the Federal President
• 1995 picture- Osgar
• 1995 Golden Badge of Honor from the Saxon Cyclists' Association
• 1996 honorary citizen of the community of Roßla
• 2000 member of Germany's Team of the Year
• 2000 Silver Laurel Leaf of the Federal President
• 2000 Sportsman of the Year in Leipzig
• 2000 athlete of the year in Saxony

Web links

Commons : Jens Lehmann (cyclist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the CDU direct candidate for the 2017 federal election Jens Lehmann
• Leipziger Internet Zeitung: BTW17 - The candidates introduce themselves: Jens Lehmann (CDU)
• Jens Lehmann in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Jens Lehmann in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Leipzig's two-time Olympic champion and member of the Bundestag Jens Lehmann turns 50 . Leipziger Volkszeitung online, accessed on December 24, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ web.jenslehmann-leipzig.de ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2017 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. 
2. ↑ 25 years of success in cycling: Jens Lehmann on an anniversary tour on l-zi.de v. August 16, 2005
3. ↑ raps print - CWA values: Chris Boardman, Robert Bartko and Jens Lehmann. (No longer available online.) Yahoo Groups, formerly the original ; Retrieved February 12, 2011 .  ( 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.    
4. ^ CDU Leipzig: CDU Althen, Engelsdorf, Kleinpösna | CDU Leipzig. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 6, 2018 ; accessed on February 6, 2018 . 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.  
5. ↑ Björn Meine: Failed in the first ballot: CDU withdraws Bettina Kudla's trust. In: LVZ.de. October 22, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016 . 
6. ^ Election results for the 2017 federal election. Accessed on February 6, 2018 . 
7. ↑ German Bundestag - Defense Committee . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed on February 6, 2018]).
8. ^ German Bundestag - Petitions Committee . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed on February 6, 2018]).
9. ^ Presidium - Stadtsportbund Leipzig. Retrieved February 6, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Jens Lehmann. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .