Marcel Barth
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Marcel Barth at the Berlin  six-day race in 2011  | 
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| Date of birth | May 22, 1986 | 
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| discipline | Train / street | 
| End of career | 2017 | 
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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
 
- 2003
 
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Junior World Championship - two-man team driving (with Leonardo Pappalardo ) - 
 German Champion - Road Race (Juniors) 
- 2004
 
- 2008
 
- one stage Mainfranken Tour (U23)
 
- 2009
 
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 Track Cycling World Cup in Copenhagen - two-man team driving (with Robert Bartko ) 
Teams
- 2006–2013 Thuringian Energy Team
 
Web links
- Marcel Barth in the rad-net.de database
 - Marcel Barth in the database of Radsportseiten.net
 - Marcel Barth in the ProCyclingStats.com database
 
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 )
 - ↑ 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 .
 - ↑ 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.
 - ↑ 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.
 - ↑ Successful racing driver Marcel Barth ends his career on Friday in Erfurt. In: Thuringian General . September 15, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .
 
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| SURNAME | Barth, Marcel | 
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German track and road cyclist | 
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1986 | 
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera , GDR |