Marcel Barth

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Marcel Barth Road cycling
Marcel Barth at the Berlin six-day race in 2011
Marcel Barth at the Berlin
six-day race in 2011
To person
Date of birth May 22, 1986
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Train / street
End of career 2017
Societies)
2004–2005
2014–2017
SSV Gera 1990
SSV Gera 1990
Last updated: September 27, 2017

Marcel Barth (born May 22, 1986 in Gera ) is a former German rail and road cyclist .

Athletic career

Marcel Barth became the German junior road racing champion in 2003 . At the junior track cycling world championship in Moscow , he won the silver medal in Madison . The next year he was junior world champion in points race in Los Angeles . He also won a stage in the Junior Münsterland Tour in 2004. From 2006 to 2009 Barth drove for the Thuringian Energy Team and was a member of the sports promotion group of the Thuringian Police .

Barth started in 25 six-day races, none of which he could win, but was popular with the audience as a "mood cannon" in changing costumes. The start of the Bremen six-day race in 2017 was his last, which he celebrated with a polonaise . He then ended his career as a competitive cyclist in order to concentrate on his work as a police officer in Erfurt in the future. However, he announced that he would continue to compete in standing races as an amateur . At the end of the 2017 season, he finally ended his cycling career. Professionally he works as a police officer.

His father Thomas Barth was also a successful cyclist .

successes

2002
  • German champions German youth champion - points race
2003
2004
  • World Champion World Champion - points race (Juniors)
2008
2009

Teams

Web links

Commons : Marcel Barth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the German Police Sports Board: World Cup victory in track cycling and German record in speed skating ( Memento from April 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. a b Local: Marcel Barth drives his last six days: "Bremen is the winter ball man". In: Kreiszeitung.de. January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  3. A loud farewell - Marcel Barth. (No longer available online.) In: radiobremen.de. January 16, 2017, archived from the original on January 18, 2017 ; accessed on January 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  4. Police officer and mood cannon - Bremer Sixdays 2016. (No longer available online.) In: radiobremen.de. January 17, 2016, archived from the original on January 18, 2017 ; accessed on January 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  5. Successful racing driver Marcel Barth ends his career on Friday in Erfurt. In: Thuringian General . September 15, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .