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	Michael Seidenbecher (2006)
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Date of birth	6th November 1984 (age 35)
nation	Germany
discipline	train
End of career	2011
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2004-2011	RSC Turbine Erfurt
	Last updated: September 8, 2017

Michael Seidenbecher (born November 6, 1984 in Erfurt ) is a former German track cyclist .

Athletic career

Michael Seidenbecher was successful in the short-term disciplines of track cycling. Even in the junior classes, he won over 20 Thuringian state titles on track and road , until the sprint trainer Jochen Wilhelm noticed him.

From 2010 Seidenbecher became six times European champion and ten times German champion in the sprint , keirin , team sprint and 1000 m time trial disciplines . Seven years in a row, from 2002 to 2008, he won the Albert Richter Sprinter Cup of the Association of German Cyclists .

In 2010 Michael Seidenbecher fell badly at the keirin final of the World Cup in Cali . Seriously injured, he had to stop training for three months and then found it difficult to build on his previous form. In 2011 he won the Keirin competition at the Memorial of Alexander Lesnikov in the Velodrome of Krylatskoje in Moscow and in the team sprint with Sebastian Döhrer and René Enders . Due to a lack of results, however, he was only nominated as a substitute driver for the Olympic Games in London the following year. He then ended his active cycling career.

Professional

From 2003 to 2007 Michael Seidenbecher completed his training to become a police officer in the sports promotion group of the Federal Police. In April 2017 he was promoted to chief commissioner.

Personal

Seidenbecher has been in a relationship with the former track cyclist Kristina Vogel (* 1990), with whom he lives in Erfurt , since 2009 .

successes

2001

Junior World Championship - team sprint (with Robert Gerhardt and Sascha Hartelt)
German Junior Champion - Sprint

2002

Junior World Championship - sprint, team sprint (with Michael Spiess and Dominik Krones)
Junior European Champion - sprint, team sprint (with Robert Eichfeld and Michael Spiess )
Junior European Championship - 1000 meter time trial
German Junior Champion - sprint, 1000 meter time trial, team sprint (with Maximilian North and Sebastian Döhrer )