Maic Malchow

Maic Malchow at the GDR railway championships in 1988

Maic Malchow (born October 11, 1962 in Borna ) is a former German track cyclist and today's trainer.

Athletic career

Malchow began cycling with the BSG activist Großzössen . As a member, he also won his first GDR championship title in 1976, in the sprint of class children A.

Maic Malchow attracted a lot of attention when, in 1980, just a few months after Lothar Thoms had set a world record in the 1000-meter time trial at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow with 1: 02.955 minutes , he did it at the Junior World Championships in Mexico -Stadt undercut by 41 hundredths of a second and won the title. He was also junior sprint world champion.

In 1986 Malchow became world champion in Colorado Springs over the 1000 meters in a new world record time (1: 02.09 min). Malchow, who drove for the SC DHfK Leipzig and was discovered and trained by Frieder Schulze, was also GDR champion in this discipline four times , in 1981, 1984, 1986 and 1988. He was sixth at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . After that he was banned from continuing his cycling career in the GDR because he had "exceeded his performance zenit" (he then withdrew from competitive sport). Third in this race was the German Robert Lechner , who admitted in 2008 that he had been doped in this race.

In 1986 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

Professional

Malchow is a trained car mechanic. Today (as of 2019) he works as a cycling trainer and consultant.

Web links and sources

Commons : Maic Malchow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Maic Malchow in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Maic Malchow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , p. 254.

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 52/1976 . Berlin, S. 2 .
2. ↑ sport.t-online.de: Lechner "certainly not an isolated case" T-Online, February 28, 2008.
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
4. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 36/1988 . Berlin, S. 2 .