Kersten Thiele

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Kersten Thiele Road cycling
Kersten Thiele (2015)
Kersten Thiele (2015)
To person
Date of birth 29th September 1992
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Road / train
Driver type Endurance rider
Most important successes
Track cycling world cup
2015 gold - two-man team driving
UEC European Rail Championships
2014 silver - team pursuit
2014 bronze - individual pursuit
Last updated: March 13, 2020

Kersten Thiele (born September 29, 1992 in Göttingen ) is a German racing cyclist who is active on track and road .

Athletic career

In 2008 Kersten Thiele and Benjamin Essert came third in the German youth championship in two-man team driving . The following year he started in the juniors, was again third in the German championship in two-man team driving (with Achim Burkart ) and runner-up in the team pursuit (with Fabian Ederle, Sören Seip and Achim Burkart). At the UCI Junior World Championships in Moscow in 2009 , the German four-man with Thiele, Nikias Arndt , Christopher Muche and Lucas Liß came third. At the 2010 UCI-Bahn World Championships for Juniors in Montichiari , the German four-man with Thiele, Maximilian Beyer , Christopher Muche and Lucas Liß also won the bronze medal.

In 2011, Thiele became German runner-up (U23) in the individual time trial on the road and German runner-up in the elite team pursuit (with Jakob Steigmiller , Ralf Matzka and Johannes Kahra ). In 2012 he finished tenth in the Tour de Berlin and second in Rund um den Sachsenring . At the German rail championships in Frankfurt (Oder) he won the team pursuit title with Michel Koch , Henning Bommel and Yuriy Vasyliv , and two years later he succeeded again with Theo Reinhardt , Henning Bommel and Nils Schomber . At the UEC European Rail Championships in 2014 , he won silver in the team and bronze in the single pursuit .

In 2015, Thiele won a stage of the Dookoła Mazowsza as an outlier , which was his first victory in a UCI race . For one day he wore the yellow jersey of the leader in the overall standings and ultimately finished the race in second place. On the track in November of the same year, he and Leon Rohde won the two-man team race at the Track Cycling World Cup in Cali .

In 2016 Kersten Thiele was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he finished fifth in the team pursuit together with Nils Schomber , Henning Bommel , Domenic Weinstein and Theo Reinhardt . In 2018 Thiele started with the German track four (Nils Schomber, Felix Groß and Theo Reinhardt) at the track world championships in Apeldoorn . The quartet lost to the Italian team in the battle for bronze, but set a new German record with 3: 56.594 minutes .

Successes - rail

German runner-up in the single pursuit 2017 (left), with Domenic Weinstein (center) and Justin Wolf (right)
2012
2014
2015
2017
German champions German champion - team pursuit (with Lucas Liß , Theo Reinhardt and Domenic Weinstein ), two-man team driving (with Theo Reinhardt)

Successes - road

2015

Teams

Web links

Commons : Kersten Thiele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Further improved as a time trial, runaway and start-up. In: radsport-news.com. November 23, 2015, accessed November 24, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Thiele, Kersten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen