Michael Glöckner

Michael Glöckner

To person
Date of birth	27th May 1969 (age 51)
nation	Germany
discipline	Road , rail
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Most important successes
Olympic champion 1992 - team pursuit
Last updated: September 26, 2018

Michael Glöckner (born May 27, 1969 in Ehingen ) is a former German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Michael Glöckner was a specialist in single and team pursuit on the track . In the single pursuit he was German amateur champion in 1990 and in the team pursuit and in 1992 second behind Jens Lehmann .

In 1990 Glöckner became vice world champion of the amateurs in Maebashi with the German foursome in the line-up of Stefan Steinweg , Erik Weispfennig and Andreas Walzer . In the following year, Glöckner was world champion in the team pursuit in Stuttgart together with Walzer, Steinweg and Lehmann and vice-world champion in the single pursuit behind his German teammate Jens Lehmann. This four-man world champion succeeded in winning the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona with the same composition.

For this he received the silver bay leaf on June 23, 1993.

In the 1992/1993 season, Glöckner also took part in two six-day races, but without any significant success.

Personal and professional

Michael Glöckner is married, lives in Dortmund and has two children. He works in the field service for sporting goods (as of 2016).

successes

train

1989

• German amateur champion - team pursuit (with Volker Kirn , Reinhard Alber and Gerd Dörich )

1990

• Amateur World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Stefan Steinweg , Erik Weispfennig and Andreas Walzer )
• German amateur champion - individual pursuit, team pursuit (with Uwe Messerschmidt , Andreas Walzer , Cedrik Güthe )

1991

• Amateur World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Jens Lehmann , Andreas Walzer and Stefan Steinweg )
• World Amateur Championship - Individual Pursuit
• German amateur champion - team pursuit (with Uwe Messerschmidt , Andreas Walzer , Cedrik Güthe )

1992

• Olympic Champion - Team Pursuit (with Jens Lehmann , Andreas Walzer and Stefan Steinweg )

Street

1990

• Prologue A Lower Saxony tour

1992

• Prologue A and a half-stage Lower Saxony tour

Web links

• Michael Glöckner in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Michael Glöckner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: "... on June 23, 1993 Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf ... "
2. ↑ News, fashion, business, jobs, vacancies, textile industry - www.TextilWirtschaft.de. (No longer available online.) In: textilwirtschaft.de. April 25, 2002, archived from the original on August 18, 2016 ; accessed on August 18, 2016 . 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.