Kristina Vogel

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Kristina Vogel Road cycling
Kristina Vogel - Keirin European Champion 2017
Kristina Vogel - Keirin European Champion 2017
To person
Date of birth 10th November 1990 (age 29)
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline train
Driver type Short term
End of career 2018
Societies)
2004–2005
2006–2012 		SV Sömmerda
RSC Turbine Erfurt
Most important successes
Olympic games
2012 gold - team sprint (with Miriam Welte )
2016 gold - Sprint
2016 bronze - team sprint (with Miriam Welte )
Last updated: June 28, 2018
Vogel (back) and Welte at the World Cup in Melbourne (2012)
Presentation of the Kienbaum Award 2013 to Kristina Vogel (from left to right: Bernhard Schwank, Hans-Georg Moldenhauer , Christoph Bergner , Kristina Vogel, Klaus-Peter Nowack, Isolde Heinz, Michael Vesper )
Vogel (r.) With Miriam Welte shortly before the games during training in the Rio Olympic Velodrome
Before the start of the Keirin at the 2016 Olympic Games (from right to left: Kristina Vogel, Rebecca James , Anna Meares )
World champion in the team sprint 2018, with Pauline Grabosch (l.) And Miriam Welte (r.)
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas honored her as German cyclist of the year 2018 in December
Kristina Vogel during the Rail World Cup 2020 in Berlin

Kristina Vogel (born November 10, 1990 in Leninskoje , Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union ; today Kyrgyzstan ) is a former German track cyclist and two-time Olympic champion . With eleven world championship titles in the elite , she is next to the Australian Anna Meares the most successful track cyclist to date. Up to and including 2017, she also won 21 national titles. In a training accident in June 2018, she suffered paraplegia . Since 2019 she has been active as a local politician in the city ​​council of Erfurt .

Career

As a junior

In 2007 Kristina Vogel, who started for the RSC Turbine Erfurt , was two-time European champion (juniors) in the sprint and 500 m time trial in Cottbus . In the Keirin , she took third place. In the same year, the 17-year-old was three times world champion in time trial, sprint and team sprint at the Junior World Championships in Aguascalientes . In 2008 she was also the overall winner of the Albert Richter Sprinter Cup of the Association of German Cyclists . In the following year Vogel was able to continue her successful streak at the Junior World Championships in Cape Town with three individual titles in Sprint, Time Trial and Keirin.

Serious traffic accident in 2009

In May 2009 Kristina Vogel was hit by a civilian vehicle of the Thuringian police during road training and suffered serious injuries. A thoracic vertebra and carpal bones were broken, she lost several teeth, and the glass of the car cut her face. Half of my face remained partially numb. In August 2014, the Erfurt Regional Court awarded her compensation for pain and suffering in the amount of 100,000 euros, to be paid by the Free State of Thuringia . The Free State only wanted to pay 25,000 euros in compensation for pain and suffering, Vogel demanded 80,000 euros. In its judgment, the court based the gravity of the injuries, but also the long time Vogel had to wait for the money, as well as the procedural behavior of the Free State. Vogel: "[...] On the one hand, you boast with your titles [...] But it would have been a step to say: You are our athlete, we stand behind you." Vogel resigned her in February 2010 after a long hospital stay and several operations Comeback at the UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen in March.

At the 2010 German Railway Championships in Cottbus , she won three gold medals, in sprint, keirin and time trial. In December of the same year, she won her first Sprint World Cup victory in Cali, Colombia . At the UCI Track World Championships 2012 in Melbourne , Kristina Vogel won the gold medal in the team sprint together with Miriam Welte . In the qualification and in the final, the two drivers each set a world record. In the Keirin, she won the bronze medal at this World Cup, which is her first medal for a single success at elite world championships.

2012 Summer Olympics

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , Kristina Vogel and Miriam Welte became Olympic champion in the team sprint after the winners of the final from China had been put back in second place due to a substitution error. The two German riders had only reached the gold finals because the British duo had been relegated because of an error of the same kind . The two Germans were the first Olympic champions in this discipline to be included in the program of the Olympic Games.

In November 2012 Kristina Vogel won gold in the sprint and Keirin as well as silver in the 500-meter time trial in the second round of the 2012/13 Track Cycling World Cup . At the UCI Track World Championships 2013 in Minsk , she and Miriam Welte again became world champion in the team sprint and in the sprint she won the silver medal. On December 7, 2013 in Aguascalientes she set a new world record over 200 meters with a flying start of 10.384 seconds in the second run of the Track Cycling World Cup and, together with Miriam Welte, set a new world record in the team sprint over 500 meters with 32.153 seconds. At the UCI Track World Championships in 2014 in Cali , she was three-time world champion, in sprint, keirin and team sprint (with Welte), and in the same year European champion in keirin. In 2015 she won the rainbow jersey in the sprint. At the European Championships later that year she won silver in the team sprint and bronze in the sprint together with Welte. In 2016 she became world champion in keirin (her seventh world title) in London and won bronze in the team sprint together with Miriam Welte. She won her eighth world title in the sprint.

2016 Summer Olympics

In the same year Vogel was nominated for the start at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . There she was the first German Olympic sprint champion, won the bronze medal in the team sprint with Miriam Welte and finished sixth in the Keirin. This makes her the first German Olympic sprint champion since this discipline was included in the Olympic program in 1988. She had won the sprint even though her seat post had come off the bike in the decisive sprint to the finish line in the so-called " Tiger Jump " and the saddle had fallen onto the track after the finish line. In view of her performance and strong nerves at the games in Rio, national coach Detlef Uibel said : "Kristina is our best man."

2017-2018

In the post-Olympic year Kristina Vogel became two-time world champion , in sprint and keirin. In addition, she was elected to the UCI Athletes Commission together with the Belgian Kenny De Ketele during the World Championships in Hong Kong . In autumn 2017, in front of a home crowd in Berlin , she won two European Championship titles in Keirin and Sprint and, together with Welte and Pauline Grabosch, silver in the team sprint. In the first three events of the Track Cycling World Cup , she achieved the triple with three wins in the sprint, keirin and team sprint.

At the UCI Track World Championships 2018 in Apeldoorn , Vogel was two-time world champion, in sprint and team sprint. With that she won her tenth and eleventh World Championship titles and caught up with the most successful track cyclist to date, Anna Meares from Australia. With a sixth place in the Keirin, she missed her goal of surpassing them with a twelfth title.

Records

Kristina Vogel set world records several times . Together with Miriam Welte , she improved the record in the 500-meter team sprint three times since 2012. At the track cycling World Cup in Aguascalientes in December 2013, she set a new world record over 200 meters with a flying start with 10.384 seconds. Three years later, in December 2016, she improved the world record over 500 meters with a flying start to 28.970 seconds as part of the Frankfurter Kreisel event in the Oderlandhalle in Frankfurt (Oder) , making it the first woman to stay below the 29-second mark.

Training accident 2018

On June 26, 2018, Vogel fell during training in the Cottbus cycling stadium after a collision with a Dutch driver and sustained a broken sternum and a serious spinal injury. Her teammate Maximilian Levy provided first aid before paramedics brought her to the Carl-Thiem-Klinikum Cottbus , then flown by helicopter to the Berlin Accident Hospital and operated on there. She was then placed in an artificial coma . After about four weeks she was able to leave the intensive care unit.

Vogel had trained in Cottbus in order to take part in the “Grand Prix of Germany” sprint tournament the following weekend. This event then served as the prelude to the #staystrongkristina fundraising campaign initiated by Maximilian Levy and her team at Erdgas.2012 . The cyclists from different countries showed their solidarity with Kristina Vogel with armbands and inscriptions on T-shirts. The campaign brought in around 120,000 euros.

At the beginning of September 2018, Kristina Vogel spoke for the first time about her accident in an interview with Spiegel . Her spinal cord was severed at the seventh thoracic vertebra, so she was paraplegic from the chest down: "No matter how you pack it, I can no longer walk," said Vogel. In December 2018, Deutsche Sporthilfe announced that it would set up a support fund for birds; There are similar funds for handball player Joachim Deckarm and gymnast Ronny Ziesmer , both of whom are severely impaired in health after sports accidents.

politics

Kristina Vogel stood as a non-party candidate for the CDU in the local elections for the city council in Erfurt on May 26, 2019 . She was placed second on the local electoral list. In the election she received the highest number of votes from the CDU list candidates and became a member of the city council. In February 2020, she praised the Fridays for Future movement as a positive sign against disenchantment with politics, without commenting on the movement's goals.

Miscellaneous

Kristina Vogel comes from a Kyrgyzstan German family. Since 2009 she has been in a relationship with the former cyclist Michael Seidenbecher , with whom she lives in Erfurt .

In January 2019 she was appointed ambassador for the UCI Rail World Championships 2020 in Berlin. In August 2019, she commented on the ZDF broadcast of the German rail championships from the Berlin Velodrom .

On November 20, 2019, Vogel was the godmother of a federal police ship named Bad Düben . One day later she acted as laudator in the Sport category at the Bambi Awards 2019 .

Awards

successes

2007
  • Jersey rainbow.svg Junior world champion - sprint, 500 meter time trial, team sprint (with Sabine Bretschneider)
  • European champion Junior European Champion - Sprint, 500-meter time trial
  • bronze Junior European Championships - Keirin
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - 500 meter time trial, sprint
2008
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017

2018

Teams

Web links

Commons : Kristina Vogel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ record! Vogel wins eleventh world championship title kicker March 2, 2018
  2. ↑ Thomas Juschus, dpa: Olympic champion Vogel takes 15th and 16th titles at DM. In: swp.de. August 28, 2016, accessed September 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Vogel: "Thought I was dying". Sport1, September 7, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Thuringia has to pay Olympic champion Vogel 100,000 euros. rad-net, August 13, 2014, accessed on August 13, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Radsport-News.com: "Kristina Vogel after a terrible accident before comeback"
  6. ↑ Keyword replacement error. on radsport-news.com v. August 3, 2012.
  7. ↑ Vogel with a new world record in the 200-meter time trial. radsport-news.com, December 7, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Germans start with three wins and two world records. radsport-news.com, December 6, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 .
  9. ^ Heiko Oldkörper: Olympic Champion Vogel: Gone out of the saddle. In: Spiegel Online . August 17, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
  10. ↑ National coach Uibel: "Kristina is our best man" - cycling at rad-net.de. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed September 19, 2016 .
  11. ^ Vogel and De Ketele elected onto the UCI Athletes' Commission. In: uci.ch. April 12, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Felix Mattis: Vogel also manages the triple in Canada. In: radsport-news.com. December 4, 2017, accessed December 4, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Vogel “intimidates competition”: Another triple victory. In: rad-net.de. December 4, 2017, accessed December 6, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Axel Lukacsek: Track cycling world champion Kristina Vogel: The legend has to wait. In: Thuringian General . March 5, 2018, accessed March 9, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Vogel sets a world record over the 500 meters flying. In: rad-net.de. December 17, 2016, accessed December 18, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Thomas Prenzel / Thomas Treptow: Horror fall from Kristina Vogel - cyclist in shock. In: Freiepresse.de. June 26, 2018, accessed June 27, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Kristina Vogel had a serious accident during training. In: Spiegel Online . June 26, 2018, accessed June 26, 2018 .
  18. ↑ rbb24.de, June 28, 2018: Extent of Vogel's injuries still unclear ( memento from June 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Rp Online: After a serious training accident: Olympic track cycling champion Kristina Vogel has left intensive care. In: rp-online.de. July 24, 2018, accessed July 24, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Frank Noack: Cyclists collect money for #staystrongkristina. In: lr-online.de. June 29, 2018. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
  21. ^ Olympic track cycling champion Vogel paraplegic. In: rad-net.de. September 7, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Kristina Vogel "My spine looks like an Ikea folding table". In: welt.de . September 7, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Sporthilfe starts the staystrongkristina fund - support fund for Kristina Vogel. In: rad-net.de. December 15, 2018, accessed December 15, 2018 .
  24. ↑ a b Vogel on Fridays for Future: “It couldn't be more beautiful”. In: rad-net.de. February 24, 2020, accessed February 24, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Olympic track cycling champion: Kristina Vogel is a candidate for CDU in Erfurt. In: Spiegel Online . January 11, 2019, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Kristina Vogel gets the most votes for the CDU in Erfurt. In: Thuringian General . May 28, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019 .
  27. ↑ The Olympic champions Kristina Vogel and Michael Seidenbecher celebrated their topping-out ceremony with a large number of guests. In: Hubert Hammerl Immobilien. June 6, 2016, accessed March 9, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Vogel becomes ambassador for World Track Cycling Championships in Berlin. In: rad-net.de. January 15, 2019, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Kristina Vogel new track bike expert on ZDF. In: zdf.de. June 19, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  30. ↑ With the celebratory christening of the third new mission ship with the name "BAD DÜBEN", the fleet of the Federal Police is complete
  31. ↑ The long-term goal is Tokyo 2020. Thüringer Allgemeine, January 30, 2017, accessed on January 30, 2017 .
  32. ↑ Kienbaum Journal from July 2012 (PDF; 2.9 MB)
  33. ↑ Entries in the Golden Book for Chemnitz track cycling world champions. In: Freiepresse.de. January 7, 2016, accessed March 10, 2016 .
  34. ↑ Athletes choose the unhappy bird as the best of 2018 - cycling. In: rad-net.de. September 30, 2018, accessed September 30, 2018 .
  35. ↑ Much applause: Kristina Vogel came second in the election for “Sportswoman of the Year”. In: Thuringian General . December 17, 2018, accessed December 17, 2018 .
  36. ↑ Kristina Vogel celebrated like a winner. In: welt.de . December 18, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 .
  37. ^ Thuringian sports badge for Olympic track cycling champion Vogel. In: welt.de . December 3, 2018, accessed January 21, 2019 .
  38. ↑ Vogel honored as "Hero of the Year". In: rad-net.de. August 20, 2019, accessed October 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Kristina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Leninskoye , Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union