Moritz Milatz

Moritz Milatz
	Moritz Milatz at the UCI World Cup in Offenburg, Germany 2011
To person
Date of birth	24th June 1982 (age 38)
nation	Germany
discipline	Mountain bike
End of career	2017
Most important successes
	European championships Cross Country 2012 German championships Cross Country 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013 2011 marathon
	Last updated: August 14, 2018

Moritz Milatz (born June 24, 1982 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a former German mountain biker . He became European champion and multiple German champion in the cross-country and marathon disciplines .

Career

Moritz Milatz began his sporting career as a track and field athlete and was discovered in 2002 by his future manager Michael Veit during a hobby race. After a first year as a licensed driver in his Freiburg ON TOUR Pro-Team , Milatz was able to start as a guest driver with the Multivan Merida team from 2004 through the contacts Veits made. A switch back to athletics was no longer an option for him from this point on.

From 2005 Milatz became one of the permanent riders of the internationally oriented Multivan Merida Biking Team. One of his highlights was winning the 2006 German Cross Country Championship in Albstadt , where he was able to replace the six-time winner Lado Fumic . Other sporting highlights were Milatz 'victory at the Marathon World Cup in Bad Goisern in 2005 and his first top ten placement with sixth place at the Cross-Country World Cup in Fort William (SCO) in 2006. After a ninth place at the 2008 Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sole , Italy , Milatz was nominated for the Olympic Games in Beijing , where he finished 16th. In 2009 he achieved his first World Cup podium with third place in Madrid . In 2010 Milatz won the international MTB Bundesliga series for the third time in a row and was German champion for the third time in 2011 after 2006 and 2010. On June 10, 2012, he achieved his greatest success so far in Moscow by winning the European Championship. Milatz is the first German mountain biker to win an international title.

At the end of the 2010 season, after seven years of working with the Multivan Merida Biking Team , he started working for the Swiss BMC Mountain Bike Racing Team in the 2011 season .

He qualified early for the 2012 Olympic Games and was nominated on June 25, 2012 by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). In the men's race, he finished 34th.

The year 2014 was so far his most successful year of his career with two podiums at the World Cup, namely a third place in Nové Město and a fifth place in Albstadt , and fourth place at the world championship in Hafjell . In addition, he won the overall ranking of the Swiss BMC Cup in 2014.

In 2015 Moritz Milatz drove for the German Engineering-Müsing Racing Team and, in addition to studying micro-systems technology, concentrated on achieving the Olympic standard for 2016. In 2016 Moritz Milatz joined the German Kreidler factory team . He took in 2016 for the third time in the Olympic Games in part, finishing in 28th place. After his team ceased activities in 2017, Milatz ended his active career.