Robert Bartko
Robert Bartko (born December 23, 1975 in Potsdam , GDR ) is a German sports official and former racing cyclist .
Cycling career
Robert Bartko achieved his greatest successes as a track racing driver , especially in the endurance disciplines individual and team pursuit . After winning first medals at the track cycling world championships in 1998 , he was able to win the first two world championship titles in individual and team in 1999 at the home world championships in Berlin.
At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , Bartko had a team-internal duel with Jens Lehmann in the final - as at the World Cup a year earlier - which he won and won the gold medal. Together with Lehmann as well as Guido Fulst and Daniel Becke , he drove to the second gold medal in the team pursuit, whereby the four-man, who was supervised by Robert Lange , was the first team ever to break the four-minute limit with 3: 59: 710 minutes and thus one set a new world record over this distance.
After the Olympic Games, Bartko was looking for a new sporting challenge with moderate success in road cycling. After two years with the Telekom team , he was part of the Dutch Rabobank team until the end of 2004 . Then he successfully returned to the track, with two more world titles in the single pursuit in 2005 and 2006 .
In 2008 Robert Bartko reached only 16th place with a time of 4: 25.142 minutes at the World Championships in Manchester. The track four (Bartko, Becke, Henning Bommel , Patrick Gretsch ) finished ninth with 4: 06.941 minutes. This meant that the pursuers could not qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing . In August 2011 Bartko resigned from the national team after the Association of German Cyclists planned without him for the Olympic Games in London in 2012 and declared that he would concentrate on six-day and standing races in the future.
In January 2014 Bartko announced that he would retire from competitive cycling after the six-day race in Copenhagen (January 30 to February 4, 2014). He won this last six-day race of his career together with Marcel Kalz .
Functionary and trainer
From 2009 Bartko was part of the LKT Team Brandenburg . He was also involved as Vice President for Marketing and Communication in the Brandenburg Cycling Association . In March 2013 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Vice President of the Association of German Cyclists (BDR). In September of the same year he acquired his A-Trainer certificate at the Academy of the German Athletics Association in Mainz . In 2014 he graduated from the European Sports Academy in Potsdam .
From December 2014 Bartko was sports director of the German Speed Skating Association (DESG). He gave up his positions in cycling. After the German speed skaters lacked success at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he resigned from his position as sports director of DESG. He is the chairman of the sponsoring association of the Berlin Olympic Training Center and has been responsible for sports advice and association funding at the DOSB since 2019 .
successes
Olympic games:
- 2000 Summer Olympics
- - one's pursuit
- - Team pursuit (with Jens Lehmann , Daniel Becke and Guido Fulst )
World Championships:
- UCI Track World Championships 1998
- - Team pursuit
- - one's pursuit
- UCI Track World Championships 1999
- - one's pursuit
- - Team pursuit
- UCI Track World Championships 2004
- - one's pursuit
- UCI Track World Championships 2005
- - one's pursuit
- UCI Track World Championships 2006
- - one's pursuit
- UCI Track World Championships 2007
- - one's pursuit
European championships
- 2009 Gent - two-man team driving (with Roger Kluge )
Six days race:
- 2003 Berlin - with Guido Fulst
- 2004 Bremen - with Andreas Beikirch
- 2005 Stuttgart - with Guido Fulst and Leif Lampater
- 2005 Munich - with Erik Zabel
- 2006 Rotterdam - with Iljo Keisse
- 2007 Amsterdam - with Iljo Keisse
- 2007 Gent - with Iljo Keisse
- 2008 Bremen - with Iljo Keisse
- 2008 Stuttgart - with Iljo Keisse and Leif Lampater
- 2008 Munich - with Iljo Keisse
- 2008 Gent - with Iljo Keisse
- 2009 Berlin - with Erik Zabel
- 2009 Amsterdam - with Roger Kluge
- 2009 Apeldoorn - with Léon van Bon and Pim Ligthart
- 2010 Amsterdam - with Roger Kluge
- 2010 Zurich - with Danilo Hondo
- 2011 Bremen - with Robert Bengsch
- 2011 Berlin - with Roger Kluge
- 2011 Gent - with Kenny De Ketele
- 2012 Bremen - with Peter Schep
- 2014 Copenhagen - with Marcel Kalz
Road racing:
- 1999 a stage of the Saxony tour
- 2002 a stage tour of Lower Saxony
- 2003 a stage tour of Luxembourg
- 2004 overall ranking and prologue Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 2005 a stage tour of Hungary
- 2008 around Berlin
Teams
- 2001–2002 Team Deutsche Telekom
- 2003-2004 Rabobank
- ...
- 2009–2010 LKT Team Brandenburg
- 2011–2012 LKT Team Brandenburg / Track Team Brandenburg
- 2013–2014 LKT Team Brandenburg
Awards
- 2006: Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
- 2005: Fair Play badge of the German Olympic Society due to his behavior after his fall when crossing the finish line at the Berlin six-day race
- Inclusion in the Hall of Fame of the European cycling association Union Européenne de Cyclisme
- Berlin's athlete of the year 2000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bahnvierer: Second gold thanks to a world record run. Der Spiegel, September 19, 2000, accessed February 5, 2014 .
- ↑ German Omnium Championships without Bartko and Kluge. radsport-news.com, September 28, 2011, accessed February 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Robert Bartko declares his retirement from competitive sports. Rheinische Post, January 27, 2014, accessed on January 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Bartko says goodbye to the cycling stage with his victory. radsport-news.com, February 5, 2014, accessed February 5, 2014 .
- ^ Website of the BRV ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Top athletes take the A-Trainer exam at Leichtathletik.de
- ↑ a b Robert Bartko becomes sports director of the German Speed Skating Association. rad-net, December 3, 2014, accessed December 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Marcel Stein: The ice breaks more and more. In: morgenpost.de. March 20, 2018, accessed April 24, 2018 .
- ^ Olympic Training Center Berlin - Board of Directors. In: osp-berlin.de. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Wiedersich: Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin: How cycling has changed. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 27, 2020, accessed August 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Bad end! Bartko falls, Risi wins. radsport-news.com, February 2, 2005, accessed February 5, 2014 .
Web links
- Robert Bartko in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Robert Bartko in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- lkt-team-brandenburg.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bartko, Robert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd December 1975 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam , GDR |