Michael Marx (cyclist)

Michael Marx

To person
Date of birth	February 7, 1960
nation	Germany
discipline	Road / train
End of career	1984
Societies)
-1984	BRC Student Derby Berlin
Most important successes
German championship in team time trial bronze medal Olympic Games team pursuit
Last updated: October 18, 2019

Michael Marx (born February 7, 1960 in Hamburg ) is a former racing cyclist from the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1984 he won an Olympic bronze medal in the team pursuit .

Marx began his cycling career with RV Germania Hamburg , for which he won the first German championship in club history in 1974 with the student title. In 1978 Marx was youth cyclist of the year after his third place in the points race at the junior world championship. In 1982, together with Roland Günther , Gerhard Strittmatter and Axel Bokeloh , Marx reached the final in the team pursuit at the World Championships in Leicester and won the silver medal behind the Soviet foursome.

In 1983 Marx moved from Hamburg to Berlin and started there for the BRC student derby . In 1983 he won the German team time trial championship with the Berliners on the road. At the rail world championship in Zurich, Günther, Marx and Strittmatter together with Rolf Gölz won the title again after eight years, in the final they beat the four-man from the GDR.

Shortly before the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , Gerhard Strittmatter tested positive for anabolic steroids. For that moved Reinhard Alber quickly to the German railway quad. In Los Angeles, the German four-man with Alber, Gölz, Günther and Marx drove the third fastest time in the qualification and eliminated the French in the quarter-finals, in the semi-finals the Germans were overtaken by the US-Americans. The Italians had set the fastest qualifying time, but after the semi-final defeat against the later Olympic champions from Australia in the battle for the bronze medal, they no longer had the strength to set a best time and so the four Germans won the bronze medal.

Professional

Michael Marx works as an independent sales representative.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Los Angeles 1984. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1984

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronicle of the RV Germania Hamburg ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
2. ↑ World Championships in Team Pursuit
3. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 27/1984 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 16 .