Lucas Liß

Lucas Liß
	Lucas Liß (2016)
To person
Nickname	Lulu
Date of birth	January 12, 1992
nation	Germany
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
Societies)
2005 to 2012 ; 2020	RSV Unna ; RSV Unna
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2017 - Scratch 2015 World Champion - Scratch UEC European Rail Championships 2012 European Champion - Omnium
	Last updated: March 28, 2020

Lucas Liß (born January 12, 1992 in Unna ) is a German racing cyclist who is active on the road and track .

Athletic career

As a student, Lucas Liß became German runner-up in road racing and team time trial in 2006 (with Kai Exner, Sven Schöne and Marvin Pfannschilling). He also won the 14th Int. Kids tour in Berlin and the 9th South Palatinate tour . In 2007 he took sixth place in the DM road race and was German runner-up in the team pursuit on the track in the Berlin Velodrom (with Daniel Mrosek, Raphael Shakoor and Stefan Barufke).

The following year, Liß stood on the podium four times as a junior at the German track championships: He was second in the 500-meter time trial , in the two-man team race with Hans Pirius and in the single pursuit . In the team pursuit, he and his team (Pirius, Jan Radermacher , Max Stahr ) took third place. In 2009 he also achieved podium places in German championships by finishing second in the two-man team and in the team pursuit and third in the single pursuit. In the same year Liß started for the first time at the Junior World Championships in Moscow and won bronze in the team pursuit on the track (with Nikias Arndt , Kersten Thiele and Christopher Muche ).

In 2010 Liß won two bronze medals at the Junior Track World Championships in Montichiari , after he had also won bronze in Moscow the year before . At the 2011 European Railway Championships for youngsters in Saint Petersburg , he took two second places, in the team pursuit (with Jakob Steigmiller , Johannes Kahra and Theo Reinhardt ) and in the Omnium . At the German championships this year he won two junior titles, in the team pursuit (with Ruben Zepuntke and Hans Pirius) and in the two-man team driving, also with Pirius. In 2010 Liß won the junior six-day race in Berlin with Hans Pirius. The 35th Int. He finished in second place in the Cottbus junior stage race. In addition, this year he was three times German champion on the track (single pursuit, team pursuit and Madison) and was able to win the second stage of the 16th International Tour of Lower Saxony .

In 2011, Lucas Liß was part of the team of the Association of German Cyclists at the European Rail Championships in Apeldoorn . In his first appearance in an international elite competition, he finished twelfth in the points trial , the following year he was sixth in the scratch at the 2012 UCI Track World Championships in Melbourne and 19th in the 1000-meter time trial European Track Championships for Juniors and U23s Liß was third in the Omnium (U23), fourth in the team pursuit and fifth in the Madison (U23).

In January 2012 Liß took sixth place at the UCI Track World Cup in Beijing in the Madison and seventh in the team pursuit (with Nikias Arndt, Henning Bommel, Stefan Schäfer). In October 2012, Lucas Liß was European champion in the Omnium and vice-European champion in the team pursuit at the UEC European Rail Championships 2012 in Panevėžys , together with Henning Bommel , Theo Reinhardt and Maximilian Beyer . In the same year he won the Omnium at the Track Cycling World Cup 2012/13 in Glasgow and finished second with the four in the team pursuit.

At the end of 2012, Lucas Liß became German champion in the Omnium in the Berlin Velodrome . In 2014 he became European Champion (U23) in the same discipline. In 2015 he won the world title in scratch. In 2017 he won the silver medal in the same discipline at the World Railroad Championships in Hong Kong .

In December 2017, Liß had a serious fall while training for the German Omnium Championships in the Oderlandhalle in Frankfurt / Oder after colliding with another racing driver. At the hospital, he was found to have a tear in his right lung, as well as bruises and abrasions. After this serious injury and other health problems, Lucas Liß began training.

Personal and family

Liß with his father Lucjan Lis (2010)

Liss has Fachhochschulreife on vocational college stored and is a trained business assistant . Since September 2011 he has been a member of the Bundeswehr sports promotion group .

Lucas Liß is the son of the Polish Olympic medalist from 1972 , Lucjan Lis , who died in January 2015 and who also coached and managed him.

After his victory in the Omnium at the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow 2012, Liß entered the city of Bergkamen's Golden Book .

Palmarès

train

2009: Junior World Track Championship team pursuit with Nikias Arndt , Kersten Thiele and Christopher Muche
2010

U23 European Championship - Omnium, team pursuit (with Johannes Kahra , Theo Reinhardt and Jakob Steigmiller )

German Champion (Juniors) - two-man team driving , with Hans Pirius; German Champion (Juniors) - Team Pursuit , with Hans Pirius , Justin Wolf and Ruben Zepuntke; German Champion (Juniors) - Individual Pursuit
2011: Junior World Championship - Omnium; Junior World Championship - team pursuit, with Maximilian Beyer , Christopher Muche and Kersten Thiele; European Championship (Juniors) - Omnium; European Championship (Juniors) - Team Pursuit , with Jakob Steigmiller , Theo Reinhardt and Johannes Kahra
2012: U23 European Championship - Omnium; European Champion - Omnium; European Championship - Team Pursuit, with Theo Reinhardt , Maximilian Beyer and Henning Bommel; Track Cycling World Cup 2012/2013 in Glasgow - Omnium; German champion - Omnium
2013: German track championships - individual pursuit; German track championships - 1000 m time trial; German railway championships - team pursuit
2014: U23 European Champion - Omnium
2015: World Champion - Scratch
2016: German Champion - Team Pursuit (with Maximilian Beyer , Leif Lampater and Marco Mathis )
2017: World Championship - Scratch; German Champion - Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Theo Reinhardt , Kersten Thiele and Domenic Weinstein )
2018: German Champion - Team Pursuit (with Felix Groß , Leif Lampater and Jasper Frahm )

Street

2016

Prologue Tour de Normandie

Teams

2013 rad-net Rose Team
2014 Team Stölting
2015 rad-net Rose Team
2016 rad-net Rose Team
2017 rad-net Rose Team
2018 Heizomat rad-net.de
2019 Team Sauerland NRW p / b SKS GERMANY

Web links

Commons : Lucas Liß - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Lucas Liß in the Radsportseiten.net database

Lucas Liß in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Lucas Liß in the rad-net.de database

Lucas Liß's website

Individual evidence

↑ Sports: Lucas Liß seriously injured after a training fall. In: wa.de. December 17, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
↑ The best Bergkamen racing cyclists make a clear cut. In: wa.de. January 2, 2018, accessed March 28, 2020 .
↑ Lucjan Lis in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on November 29, 2013.
↑ Lucas Liß enters the city's golden book on wa.de v. November 23, 201

personal data
SURNAME	Liß, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH	Unna

[wa-456310-1] Sports: Lucas Liß seriously injured after a training fall. In: wa.de. December 17, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .

[wa-976227-2] The best Bergkamen racing cyclists make a clear cut. In: wa.de. January 2, 2018, accessed March 28, 2020 .

[3] Lucjan Lis in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on November 29, 2013.

[4] Lucas Liß enters the city's golden book on wa.de v. November 23, 201