René Enders

René Enders
	René Enders (2012)
To person
Date of birth	February 13, 1987
nation	Germany
discipline	train
End of career	2017
Societies)
2004–2005 ; 2006–	SSV Gera 1990 ; RSC Turbine Erfurt
Most important successes
	Olympic games 2012 - team sprint (with Maximilian Levy and Robert Förstemann ) 2008 - team sprint (with Maximilian Levy and Stefan Nimke ) UCI track world championships 2013 - team sprint (with Maximilian Levy and Stefan Bötticher ) 2011 - team sprint (with Maximilian Levy and Stefan Nimke )
	Last updated: February 13, 2018

René Enders (born February 13, 1987 in Zeulenroda ) is a former German track cyclist who specialized in short-term disciplines.

Athletic career

René Enders grew up in Auma and did not begin cycling until he was a teenager at SSV Gera . To promote his talent, he trained in the two Thuringian state performance centers, in Gera with Gerald Mortag and in Erfurt with Jochen Wilhelm , where he got his cut as a sprinter. He also attended the Pierre-de-Coubertin-Gymnasium sports high school in Erfurt. In 2006 he went to RSC Turbine Erfurt and became a member of the SWE sprint team there .

René Enders celebrated his first success in the junior division in 2004 when he won the German championship in the team sprint . The 1.65 meter tall athlete established himself in the following years as a "starter" in this discipline due to his strong acceleration. A year later, he took third place in the Keirin at the Junior World Championships in Vienna and won the title in the team sprint, together with Maximilian Levy and Benjamin Wittmann . In 2006 he became European champion in the team sprint (with Levy and Michael Seidenbecher ).

In 2008 Enders of the German national team took part in the World Track Cycling Championships in Manchester and took fourth place with her. In August 2008, Enders first took part in the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing . He secured the bronze medal in the team sprint together with his teammates Levy and Stefan Nimke . In spring 2011 Enders won the silver medal in the team sprint together with Levy and Nimke at the UCI Track World Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn . After the French team the gold medal for violation of the reporting requirements-the WADA by Gregory Bauge was stripped in January 2012 because it was officially classified as a doping offense, the gold medal went to the German trio. In the same year Enders was European champion in the team sprint together with Nimke and Förstemann .

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , René Enders won the team sprint bronze medal with Robert Förstemann and Maximilian Levy. In December 2013 Enders won the team sprint together with Joachim Eilers and Förstemann at the second run of the Track Cycling World Cup 2013/14 ; In the qualification the three athletes drove a new world record with 41.871 seconds . The trio improved the old record of 42,600 seconds set by the British team at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

In 2013, Enders was both world and European team sprint champions, on the European level with Levy and Robert Förstemann , on the World Cup level with Levy and Stefan Bötticher . In the following year he won the silver medal in the team sprint at the World Track Championships with Levy and Förstermann.

In spring 2014, the new Sprint Team Thuringia was presented in Erfurt under the direction of trainer Tim Zühlke , which followed the SWE Sprint Team (later Project TeamSpirit ); Enders led this team as the "lead wolf".

In 2016 René Enders was nominated to start the team sprint at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Together with Joachim Eilers and Maximilian Levy , he finished fifth.

Enders ended his sporting career in 2017 and was officially bid farewell at the European Railway Championships in Berlin in October . However, he only contested his definitely last race in January 2018 at the Berlin six-day race .

Professional

René Enders is employed by the Federal Police .

In October 2017, after the departure of Zühlke, who became national trainer in China, Enders took over the training of the Thuringia sprint team , and since December 2017 he has been assisting the new sprint team's trainer, Anner Miedema .