Marty Nothstein

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Marty Wayne Nothstein (born February 10, 1971 in Allentown , Pennsylvania ) is a retired American cyclist . The future entrepreneur ran unsuccessfully for the Republican Party in the 2018 election for the United States House of Representatives .

Athletic career

Marty Nothstein was initially mainly active in short-term disciplines on the railway . He won 34 US championship titles, including winning the sprint , team sprint and keirin titles every year between 1996 and 2001 .

Nothstein achieved his first medal at the track cycling world championships in 1993 when he won silver in the Keirin behind Gary Neiwand . The following year he became world champion in keirin and also in sprint. He won the world title in Keirin again in 1996. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in the same year he lost in the sprint final against German Jens Fiedler with 0: 2 and thus secured the silver medal. At the following Olympic Games in Sydney , he won the sprint. At the Pan American Games in 1999 he won three gold medals, in team sprint (with Christian Marcello Arrue and Johnny Barrios ), sprint and keirin.

In the years that followed, Nothstein also competed in road and six-day races . In 2003 he was New York City Road Champion . He started in a total of 22 six-day races and in 2002 won that of Moscow together with Ryan Oelkers .

Until August 2018, he directed the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown , Pennsylvania .

successes

1994

1996

2000

Teams

politics

Marty Nothstein is a member of the Republican Party . 2015 he was elected at-large commissioner of Lehigh County elected and served from January 2017 as chairman of the Commissioner-General Assembly.

In October 2017, he announced that he would be running for the United States House of Representatives in the 15th Congressional District of Pennsylvania . The previous MP Charlie Dent had previously announced that he would withdraw from Congress. After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court redefined the division of congressional electoral districts in February 2018, the previous 15th became largely the 7th congressional electoral district of Pennsylvania. Nothstein was elected internally on July 31, 2018 as the Republican candidate for the extraordinary by-election to Dent's remaining mandate in the 115th United States Congress , which will coincide with the November 6, 2018 general election. In the event of a victory, he would have completed the remaining months until the 116th Congress convened on January 3, 2019 for the existing 15th congressional constituency of Pennsylvania, and if he had won the general election, he would have been a member of the new 7th district from January 3, 2019 . Become a Congressional constituency. In both elections, his opponent Susan Wild prevailed by the Democrats, who, according to polls and political observers, had been considered the favorite. In the general election, Nothstein was clearly defeated by 43.6 to 53.4 percent, while the result of the simultaneous by-election was not known until November 15, 2018. Nothstein missed a victory by 760 votes (48.3 to 48.6 percent).

In mid-August 2018 it became known that allegations of sexual misconduct had been brought against Nothstein in 2000. An investigation revealed no wrongdoing by Nothstein. He described the allegations as a political smear campaign.

Publications

  • With Ian Dille: The Price of Gold. The Toll and the Triumph of One Man's Olympic Dream. Rodale Press 2012, ISBN 978-1609613372 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marty Nothstein. Kultur-buch.de, accessed on December 27, 2013 .
  2. ^ Velodrome seeks new executive director to replace Marty Nothstein. In: WFMZ.com , August 3, 2018.
  3. ^ A b Steve Esack, Laura Olson: Lehigh County Commissioner Marty Nothstein cycles into congressional race. In: mcall.com. October 19, 2017, accessed November 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ GOP selects Marty Nothstein as candidate for election to replace Dent. In: WFMZ.com , August 1, 2018; 2018 Midterm Election Forecast: Pennsylvania 7th. In: FiveThirtyEight .
  5. ↑ Taegan Goddard: Democrat Wins Special Election to Fill So Dent's Seat. In: Political Wire , November 15, 2018; Results of by -election and regular election at Our Campaigns.
  6. ^ Stephanie Akin: Sexual Misconduct Investigation of Pennsylvania Congressional Hopeful Closed With No Finding. In: Roll Call , August 24, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Nothstein, Marty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nothstein, Marty Wayne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Allentown , Pennsylvania