Ondřej Sosenka

Ondřej Sosenka (in yellow) on the 2004 Tour of Poland

Ondřej Sosenka (born December 9, 1975 in Prague ) is a former Czech cyclist and national champion in cycling.

Athletic career

The greatest successes of Ondřej Sosenka were winning the International Peace Tour in 2002 and the Tour of Poland in 2001 and 2004. On July 19, 2005, he set a new hour record in Moscow in the Olympic cycling stadium in Krylatskoje with 49,700 kilometers , thus surpassing five years British Chris Boardman's old world record of 49.441 kilometers. This was the second hourly world record according to the new regulations, since the World Cycling Association UCI only recognized records that are achieved with bicycles that corresponded to the technical standard of 1972. After another rule change, Sosenka's world hour record was surpassed by Jens Voigt on September 18, 2014 .

The time trial specialist Sosenka was four times Czech champion in the individual time trial .

On August 29, 2008 it was announced that Sosenka had a positive A-test for methamphetamine at the Czech championships . His team suspended him with immediate effect until the B sample was opened. He was then banned for two years.

Palmarès

• 2001, 2004 Tour of Poland
• 2002 peace trip
• 2005 Chrono des Herbiers
• 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2006 Czech time trial champion

Teams

• 1998 Riso Scotti-MG Maglificio ( Stagiaire )
• ...
• 2000 PSK Unit Expert
• 2001-2003 CCC Polsat
• 2004 Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo Acqua & Sapone
• 2005 Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil Acqua & Sapone-Adria Mobil
• 2006 Acqua & Sapone Acqua & Sapone
• 2007 Action-Uniqa Action-Uniqa
• 2008 PSK Whirlpool Author

Honors

In 2005 he was the winner of the annual survey of the Král cyklistiky ( cycling king ) of the Československý svaz cyklistiky cycling association.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jens Voigt sets a new hourly world record. radsport-news.com, September 18, 2014, accessed September 18, 2014 . 
2. ↑ lequipe.fr: Hour record positive  ( page no longer accessible , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 9, 2008.  
3. ↑ Cycling doping cases 2008 on cycling4fans.de
4. ↑ Král cyklistiky. Retrieved April 8, 2019 (Czech). 

Web links

• Ondřej Sosenka in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Ondřej Sosenka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )