Miriam Welte

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Miriam Welte Road cycling
Miriam Welte as world time trial champion 2018
Miriam Welte as world
time trial champion 2018
To person
Date of birth December 9, 1986
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline train
Driver type Short term
To the team
Current team 1. FC Kaiserslautern
function driver
End of career 2019
Societies)
2014- 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Most important successes
Olympic games
Olympic rings without rims.svg - Team sprint 2012
World championships
World Champion 500 time trial 2014, 2018
World Champion Team sprint 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018
Last updated: February 17, 2019
Kristina Vogel (r.) With Miriam Welte during training in the Rio Olympic Velodrome shortly before the 2016 Summer Olympics

Miriam Welte (born December 9, 1986 in Kaiserslautern ) is a former German track cyclist . She is an Olympic champion , six times world champion, four times European champion and won 21 German championship titles.

Athletic career

2002 to 2012

In 2002 Miriam Welte, who is trained by her stepfather Frank Ziegler , became German vice-champion of the juniors in the 500-meter time trial , from 2006 to 2008 she won the German championship of the elite in this discipline. There were also two European championship titles: in 2006 in the time trial in Athens and in 2008 in Keirin in Pruszków . In 2008 and 2009 she achieved several podium places in World Cup races in the time trial and in the team sprint .

In 2008 the 1.71 meter tall and then 65 kilogram heavy world won bronze in the team sprint together with Dana Glöß at the World Track Championships in Manchester . In 2011 she finished third in the 500-meter time trial at the World Track Championships in Apeldoorn ; in the same year she became three-time German champion in Berlin ; in the Keirin, in the team sprint (with Verena Jooss ) and in the 500-meter time trial with a new German record time of 34.336 seconds and runner-up in the sprint .

At the UCI Track World Championships in Melbourne in 2012 , Miriam Welte and Kristina Vogel won the gold medal in the team sprint. Both drivers set a world record in both the qualification and the final . She finished the 500-meter time trial behind Anna Meares with a national record time of 33.626 seconds as vice world champion. In doing so, she improved her own previous record of 34.172 seconds, which she set at the 2011/2012 Track Cycling World Cup in Astana . She set a new German record over 500 meters three times in less than twelve months with a standing start. On June 22, 2012, Welte also set a new record over 200 meters with a flying start of 10.64 seconds at the US Grand Prix of Sprinting in Colorado Springs .

Since 2012

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , Miriam Welte and Kristina Vogel won the gold medal in the team sprint after the judges downgraded the actual final winners from China to second place due to an alternating error. The two German riders had already made it into the final for gold because the British duo had been relegated because of a mistake in the previous run . The two Germans are the first Olympic champions in this discipline to be included in the 2012 Olympic Games program.

The following year, Welte and Vogel became world champion in the team sprint and runner-up in the time trial in Minsk . In December 2013 she and Kristina Vogel set a new world record in the team sprint over 500 meters with 32.153 seconds. At the 2014 UCI Track World Championships in Cali , Welte was double world champion, in the team sprint with Vogel and in the 500-meter time trial.

From April to May 2014, Miriam Welte was the first German sprinter to be invited to the International Keirin Series , where she competed in the Girl's Keirin together with the Spaniard Helena Casas . When she took part in the 2015 European Rail Championships , she was handicapped because she had previously scalded her foot in hot water. Despite severe pain, she and Vogel won the silver medal in the team sprint, but then had to cancel her start in the time trial.

In 2016, Welte was nominated for the start at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she and Kristina Vogel won the bronze medal in the team sprint. She finished eleventh in the sprint and 25th in the Keirin. In December of that year, she injured an elbow at the Track Cycling Challenge at the Velodrome Suisse .

The UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2018 Miriam Welte was twice World Champion: You won for the second time gold in 500-meter time trial and together with Pauline Grabosch and Kristina Vogel in the team sprint.

In June 2019, Miriam Welte stated in an interview with SWR that she would end her career after the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo . Contrary to this announcement, she surprisingly announced her immediate retirement from competitive cycling in September 2019.

Teams

Until 2013 Miriam Welte started for the UCI Track Team " Track Cycling Team Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ", her club was the RSC Kaiserslautern . In February 2014 it became known that she was moving to the triathlon department of 1. FC Kaiserslautern , which is a member of the Association of German Cyclists through the Palatinate Cyclists' Association .

Professional

After her retirement from cycling, Miriam Welte, who has the rank of chief commissioner (as of 2019), will continue her career with the police. At the UCI Track World Championships 2020 , she reported on the event as a reporter on the organization's social media channels. Since 2020 she has been supporting her former trainer Frank Ziegler in the sporting management of the Rhineland-Palatinate rail team .

Successes (selection)

Miriam Welte (r.) And Kristina Vogel (2013)
Miriam Welte (left) with Kristina Vogel at the European Championships 2015: Silver in the team sprint
Welte (2nd from right) as a reporter at the Rail World Cup 2020 with Lea Sophie Friedrich, Pauline Grabosch and Emma Hinze (from left to right)
2006
  • European champion European champion - 500 meter time trial
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - 500 meter time trial
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Awards and honorary positions

  • 2012 German cyclist of the year (together with Kristina Vogel)
  • 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018 Sportswoman of the Year in Rhineland-Palatinate .
  • Inclusion in the Hall of Fame of the European cycling association Union Européenne de Cyclisme
  • In 2014 Miriam Welte was named “Brand Ambassador for Palatinate Grumberry 2014/15” of the “Palatinate Grumberry” growers' association. In connection with this “title”, she and students in Kaiserslautern set a “supermarket record” in the team sprint.
  • On the occasion of the Crime Victims Day 2015, Miriam Welte became the ambassador of the White Ring . Landesverband Rheinland-Pfalz, the foundation to support crime victims.
  • In September 2016, Welte was honored with lifelong membership by their club FC Kaiserslautern .
  • In May 2019 Miriam Welte was awarded the golden merit badge of 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
  • "Sportswoman of the year" from the city of Kaiserslautern

Private

Miriam Welte is in a relationship with the former soccer player Oliver Schäfer (as of 2019).

Web links

Commons : Miriam Welte  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of Miriam Welte ( Memento from August 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ World record is among marks set at Velodrome in blazing heat gazette.com v. June 22, 2012 (English) ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gazette.com
  3. ↑ Keyword replacement error on radsport-news.com v. August 3, 2012
  4. ↑ Vogel with a new world record in the 200-meter time trial. radsport-news.com, December 7, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Germans start with three wins and two world records. radsport-news.com, December 6, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Achim Dreis: Bicycle license for combat sprinters. FAZ, April 3, 2014, accessed April 7, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Miriam Welte bites through and takes EM silver in the team sprint. In: rad-net.de. October 16, 2015, accessed November 22, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Welte with an elbow injury. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed December 10, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Rad-Star Welte confirms the end of his career after Tokyo 2020. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de . dpa , June 11, 2019, accessed on June 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Miriam Welte ends her career. In: bdr-medienservice.de. September 23, 2019, accessed September 23, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Olympic champion Miriam Welte changes to FCK on fck.de on February 19, 2014
  12. ↑ Interview - Olympic track cycling champion Welte celebrates the end of her career at SIX DAYS in Berlin. In: rbb24.de. January 19, 2020, accessed January 20, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Welte reports from the World Railroad Championships as a reporter. In: rad-net.de. February 28, 2020, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Welte sporting director at the Rhineland-Palatinate rail team. In: classic.rad-net.de. June 4, 2020, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Degenkolb, Vogel / Welte and Schachmann «Cyclist of the year» on rad-net.de v. December 20, 2012
  16. ↑ Kunstrad brothers André and Benedikt Bugner are athletes of the year in Rhineland-Palatinate by Ulrich Gerecke on Allgemeine-zeitung.de from January 12, 2014
  17. ↑ Track cyclist Miriam Welte is Sportswoman of the Year. In: swr.de. January 13, 2019, accessed January 14, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Team sprint to the field: Miriam Welte is the new “Grumbeer Ambassador”. rad-net, June 12, 2014, accessed June 12, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Welte advertises track cycling. rad-net, November 14, 2014, accessed November 14, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Olympic champion Miriam Welte is committed to crime victims - cycling at rad-net.de. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed March 29, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Honors for Miri Welte and 15 lifelong members. In: fck.de. September 19, 2016, accessed September 30, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Miriam Welte and FCK handball player awarded. In: fck.de. May 20, 2019, accessed May 25, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Choice of athletes in Kaiserslautern: Miriam Welte, Jochen Wiehn and TSG table tennis men win the title. In: rheinpfalz.de. March 11, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020 .
  24. ↑ A shopping tour and a revival. In: rheinpfalz.de. December 18, 2018, accessed August 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Welte, Miriam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern , Germany