Karl Platt

Karl Platt

To person
Date of birth	14th March 1978 (age 42)
nation	Germany
discipline	Mountain bike
To the team
Current team	Team Bulls
function	driver
Most important successes
German championships German champion - MTB marathon 2008, 2015 Round trips Cape Epic 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2016 Bike Transalp 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Last updated: May 30, 2019

Karl Platt (born March 14, 1978 in Novosibirsk ) is a German mountain biker .

Life

Private career

Platt grew up until he was ten years old in Siberia , where his grandparents were exiled during Stalinism . After the travel ban was relaxed under Gorbachev , the family emigrated to Germany and has lived in Osthofen ever since .

Athletic career

In 1991, Platt bought a mountain bike and joined the LLG Wonnegau . The first successes emerged: he became German junior downhill champion in 1996 and after moving to cross country he won the Lake Garda marathon in 2001.

Platt achieved his greatest successes at the Cape Epic . He has won the South African mountain bike stage race five times since 2004, most recently in 2016 with his Swiss partner Urs Huber . Apart from Platt, this has only been achieved by the Swiss Christoph Sauser , who also won the Cape Epic five times. In addition, Platt was German champion in the mountain bike marathon in 2008 and 2015 .

At the Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in Lillehammer in 2005 , Platt pulled away from the field early on and then later rode with the top three in a top group for a long time. After a defect, he crossed the finish line as the best German in sixth place, 6:05 minutes behind.
Karl Platt has been part of Team Bulls at the side of Austrian Alban Lakata since the 2019 season .

Platt's training area is in the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park, which is near his home town of Osthofen.

successes

German championships

• German champion - MTB marathon 2008, 2015
• German runner-up - MTB marathon 2011
• German Junior Champion - MTB Downhill 1996

Other successes

• Lake Garda Marathon 2001, 2003
• CC-Bundesliga run Münsingen 2002
• Bike Transalp and Transalp Challenge 2002 (with Carsten Bresser ), 2004 (with Manny Heymanns), 2005 (with Carsten Bresser), 2006 (with Carsten Bresser), 2007 (with Stefan Sahm ), 2008 (with Stefan Sahm)
• Transrockies Challenge 2004 (with A. Hestler)
• Mountain bike marathon Sankt Wendel 2004
• Cape Epic 2004 (with Mannie Heymans ), 2007 (with Stefan Sahm), 2009 (with Stefan Sahm), 2010 (with Stefan Sahm), 2016 (with Urs Huber)
• Bike Trans Germany 2007 (with Stefan Sahm)
• Trans-Black Forest 2008 (with Stefan Sahm)
• Neustadt Marathon 2008

Web links

• Karl Platt in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Types & Portrait: Karl Platt. bike-magazin.de, June 21, 2003, accessed on July 28, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bike-Magazin.de: Professional area Karl Platt: Palatinate Forest. Professional area: Karl Platt's home trails . June 25, 2016. Online at www.bike-magazin.de. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
3. ↑ Events & races. Fumic wins final - Platt takes 5th Cape Epic victory. bike-magazin.de, March 21, 2016, accessed on August 24, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Interviews. Cape Epic winner Karl Platt: Superstar in South Africa. bike-magazin.de, January 24, 2017, accessed on August 24, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Events & races. Karl Platt and Sabine Spitz German marathon champions. bike-magazin.de, September 14, 2015, accessed on August 24, 2019 . 
6. ↑ MTB-Marathon-WM: Karl Platt with a defect in sixth place. rad-net.de, 2005, accessed on July 28, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Alban Lakata will be driving alongside Karl Platt in 2019 (January 1, 2019)