Nate Koch

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Nate Koch (2017)
Nate Koch (2017)
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Date of birth June 29, 1986
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Train (short term)
Last updated: October 31, 2017

Nathan "Nate" Koch (born June 29, 1986 in Temecula ) is an American track cyclist .

Career

Nate Koch was born into a sporty family as the youngest of five children. He played soccer , baseball and also rode his bike, but first of all he was active as a runner and long jumper . Finally, he also competed in the decathlon and became a California champion in this sport. In 2008 he moved to California State University in Long Beach on an athletic scholarship . Due to injuries, he was only able to start a competition once in two years, but was team captain in his second year. He completed his studies in psychology .

When Koch rode a bicycle during his rehabilitation to protect his injured cruciate ligament , friends of his cyclists took him to a cycling track in 2010 . He was so excited right away that he decided to switch to track cycling . He soon made it his goal to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (which he failed to do).

Together with Matthew Baranoski and Kevin Mansker , Koch won the bronze medal in the team sprint at the 2013 Pan American Championships . In addition, the trio won the US championship together and set a new record in the team sprint.

2015 jumped Nate Koch at short notice for the injured Robert Förstemann the Berlin Six Day race in sprint tournament one. The “Californian sunny boy with a long beard and a radiant smile” became a public favorite straight away. Since he was usually last in the races, he was compared in newspapers to Eddie the Eagle , as a “fabulous loser”: “Not just being big in defeat, but really celebrating it.” As a result, he started several six-day races in 2017 for the third time in Berlin.

Koch runs a bicycle repair shop at the Velo Sports Center in Carson . In addition, as Team Nater , he is involved in a variety of ways to make track cycling more popular in the United States, for example with coaching lessons and his own YouTube channel.

successes

2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About. In: teamnater.com. Retrieved March 31, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Kerstin Winterkamp: Nate Koch: An American is Berlin's new six-day idol. In: velomotion.de. February 11, 2015, accessed March 31, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Martin Einsiedler: Six-day race in the Berlin Velodrome: The legendary loser Nate Koch. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 2, 2016, accessed March 31, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Michael Lachmann: Nate Koch, the "Eddy the Eagle" among sprinters. In: bz-berlin.de. January 24, 2017, accessed March 31, 2017 .
  5. ^ World Cycling League - Nate Koch makes his debut with the California Wave. (No longer available online.) In: worldcyclingleague.com. Archived from the original on April 1, 2017 ; accessed on March 31, 2017 (English). 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 / worldcyclingleague.com
  6. ↑ Team cycling at Velo Sports Center tries to give sport a new spin. In: dailynews.com. March 31, 2017, accessed March 31, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Cycling Saurus! Team Nater takes the T-Rex costume for a ride on his track bike! on YouTube on August 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Nate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cook, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Temecula