Luis Brethauer

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Luis Brethauer Road cycling
Luis Brethauer at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games
Luis Brethauer at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games
To person
Date of birth September 14, 1992
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline BMX
Driver type sprinter
To the team
Current team BMX team Cottbus
function driver
Team (s)
BMX Team Cottbus German BMX National Team
Most important successes

Flag of Germany.svgNational team since 2009,
Olympic flag.svgOlympic participation, 2012
European Olympic Committees logo.svgEuropean Games participation, 2015
Olympic flag.svgOlympic participation, 2016

Luis Brethauer (born September 14, 1992 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German cyclist in the BMX discipline .

Life

Luis Brethauer is a sports soldier and lives in Berlin / Cottbus. He belongs to the BMX Team Cottbus and starts for the German BMX National Team . He started his sport in 2000. He played his first international championship at the 2003 European Championships in Klatovy, where he finished third. At the German championships in 2010 he was runner-up. In 2011, Brethauer finished tenth in the European rankings in his first elite year, at the European Championships in Haaksbergen he was tenth, at the World Championships in Copenhagen he was eliminated due to a fall.

In 2012 he won his first national title. At the 2012 World Championships in Birmingham he was 49th, at the final run of the European Championships in Orléans he reached 6th place in the final. His greatest international successes in the World Cup (Supercross) 2012 include 6th place in the Super Time Trial in Papendal and 12th place in the Super Time Trial in Randaberg. With his teammate Maik Baier , Brethauer was the first ever German Olympic participant in BMX cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, both of which were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Brethauer achieved his greatest success at the 2013 BMX World Championships in Auckland . He reached the final there and won the bronze medal after he had to admit defeat to Briton Liam Phillips and New Zealander Marc Willers. In 2015 Brethauer reached the semi-finals at the European Games .

In July 2016 Brethauer won his seventh German championship title of his career. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he was eliminated in the semi-finals after a fall.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luis Brethauer and Mark Baier: German BMX riders retired Rheinische Post, August 9, 2012
  2. ↑ http://www.luis-brethauer.com/aktuelles.html
  3. ↑ Clear victory for Pajon in the BMX final. sport1.de, August 19, 2016, accessed on September 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Brethauer, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German BMX cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg