Robert Bengsch

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Robert Bengsch Road cycling
Robert Bengsch at the Saxony Tour 2008.
Robert Bengsch at the Saxony Tour 2008 .
To person
Date of birth October 6, 1983
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline train
Most important successes

GermanyGerman Champion Madison 2007
Tour Alsace 2008

Last updated: August 14, 2008
Robert Bengsch as spokesman for the 2014 German track cycling championships in Cottbus

Robert Bengsch (born October 6, 1983 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a former German racing cyclist with a focus on track cycling .

Athletic career

In 1999, Robert Bengsch won the overall ranking of the Critérium Européens des Jeunes junior race . In 2001 he became the German Junior Team Pursuit Champion , and at the Junior World Championship he won the silver medal in the same discipline. In 2004 he started on the track at the Olympic Games . In the 2005 season Bengsch won the team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles . In the same year he won the silver medal in the single pursuit and bronze in the points race at the U23 European Championships in Fiorenzuela . Three times, in 2007, 2008 and 2011, he won the German championship in two-man team driving (Madison), together with Marcel Kalz . Bengsch also started regularly in six-day races , but without much success.

Robert Bengsch drove on the road in 2005 as a stagiaire for the ProTour team T-Mobile Team , but did not get a professional contract. The following year he won the silver medal in the individual time trial and in the road race at the World Military Championships in Chaam . In 2007 Bengsch won the one-day race around the Schafshöhe . In the 2008 season he won a stage in the Alsace Tour and won the overall standings.

At the end of the 2012/2013 winter season, Bensch announced his retirement from active cycling in order to continue the studies he had already started. He also acts as a spokesperson at cycling events.

successes

train

2001
2005
2007
2008
2011
2012
  • German champion - points race
  • German champion - Madison with Marcel Kalz

Street

2008
2010

Individual evidence

  1. Bengsch is traveling for the last time ( memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on weser-kurier.de v. January 12, 2013
  2. Bengsch has collapsed: From the train to the edge of the track as a speaker. track cycling, August 26, 2014, accessed September 5, 2014 .

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