Nazir Jaser

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Nazir Jaser Road cycling
Nazir Jaser in the individual time trial of the 2013 Road World Championships
Nazir Jaser in the individual time trial of
the 2013 Road World Championships
To person
Date of birth April 10, 1989
nation SyriaSyria Syria
discipline Street
Societies)
2016– NRVg. Luisenstadt 1910
Last updated: April 28, 2020

Nazir Jaser ( Arabic نذير الجاسر Nadhīr al-Jāsir , DMG Naḏīr al-Ǧāsir ; * April 10, 1989 in Aleppo ) is a Syrian cyclist .

Youth in Syria and flight

Nazir Jaser grew up in his native city of Aleppo. When he was ten years old, his father died and he had eleven children from two marriages. Nazir Jaser left school at the age of twelve and learned the tailoring trade in the old town of Aleppo . Whenever he had free time, he would train on a used mountain bike bought by one of his older half-brothers and soon win his first local races. When he was 17 years old, he became a member of the largest cycling club in Aleppo, a member of the junior national team, and in 2010 a member of the national team in Damascus . In 2011 he visited his mother in Aleppo and experienced the armed conflict over the city there. He fled back to Damascus with only a backpack; For several years he lived there with his sportsmate Yalmaz Habash in a hotel room.

In 2015, Jaser became two-time Syrian champion. When he learned that his teammate and Olympian Omar Hasanin had been arrested and ill-treated, he planned to flee Syria. He sold all of his sports equipment and set off with a group of 14 people, including racing drivers Yalmaz Habash, Naim Masri, Nabil Allaham and Tarek Al Moakee, via Lebanon , Turkey and Greece to Germany; the crossing over the Mediterranean was done by rubber dinghy.

In Berlin, Jaser and his fellow athletes sought contact with the cyclists there, including spontaneously going to the velodrome . Finally, Frank Röglin from Berlin, from the NRVg Luisenstadt, took on the group of Syrian cyclists who were now racing for the club. Jaser's family is now scattered across Turkey, Jordan , Egypt and Saudi Arabia . Jaser is completing an apprenticeship as a sports and fitness clerk in Berlin (as of 2019).

Athletic career

2010 Nazir Jaser finished 14th in the road race of the Asian cycling championships , two years later he was 13th. In 2011 he won the road race of the Arab club championships. In 2013 he started in the individual time trial of the road world championships in Montecatini Terme, Italy, and finished in 77th and last place. In 2015 he was two-time Syrian champion, in road races and in the individual time trial , after he had already become vice road champion the year before.

In the same year, Jaser fled the war in his Syrian homeland to Berlin. In 2016 he was proposed for the Refugee Olympic Team to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , but not nominated due to lack of form. In 2016 and 2017 he achieved his first top positions in races in Germany. As a member of the KED-Bianchi Team Berlin , he started at the German road championships in the team time trial. Jaser has been nominated by the Syrian Cycling Federation to participate in the individual time trial of the 2017 UCI Road World Championships in Bergen, Norway . He finished 56th out of 64 starters. In 2019 he was nominated by the Syrian Cycling Federation for his third World Cup participation in the 2019 UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire . Because of a serious fall on a wet street, he only came in penultimate place.

successes

2015

  • SyriaSyria Syrian champion - road race, individual time trial

Web links

Commons : Nazir Jaser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Andrew Curry: Syrian Refugee Finds Sanctuary in Cycling. Bicycling, July 7, 2017, accessed September 6, 2017 .
  2. a b Bernd Mülle: Nazir Jaser: 3rd World Cup participation for the Syrians of the NRVg. Luisenstadt. In: turus.net. August 14, 2019, accessed September 13, 2019 .
  3. Start of the comeback. In: Amnesty International. May 26, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  4. Berlin's Syrian Jaser nominated for the World Cup time trial. In: rad-net.de. September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
  5. Rain and falls affect the World Time Trial Championships in Yorkshire. In: turus.net. August 27, 2019, accessed September 27, 2019 .