Robert Förstemann

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Robert Förstemann Road cycling
Robert Förstemann with the bronze medal of the Olympic Games 2012
Robert Förstemann with the bronze medal of
the Olympic Games 2012
To person
Date of birth March 5, 1986
nation Germany
discipline Train : short term
Driver type sprinter
Societies)
SSV Gera 1990 eV
Most important successes
Olympic games
goldOlympic bronze team sprint 2012
World championships
World Champion World champion team sprint 2010
European championships
European championEuropean champion team sprint 2010 , 2013 , 2016
Last updated: July 28, 2019

Robert Förstemann (born March 5, 1986 in Greiz ) is a German track cyclist who specializes in short-term disciplines. His particular strength was the team sprint , he also started in the sprint and 1000 meter time trial disciplines . He has been a pilot in paracycling since 2019 .

Cycling career

Track cycling

Robert Förstemann started competitive cycling at the age of 15. He already achieved numerous successes in the youth and junior class. At his first national championships in 2002, he won the bronze medal in the sprint . In 2004 he became Junior World Champion in the team sprint in Los Angeles .

From 2005 Förstemann belonged to the German national track team and from 2006 took part in all track cycling world championships . In 2010 , 2013 and 2016 he was European champion in the team sprint.

In 2010 Robert Förstemann became world champion in the team sprint together with Maximilian Levy and Stefan Nimke . At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he won the bronze medal in the team sprint together with Maximilian Levy and René Enders . Förstemann was only intended as a substitute for this competition; due to an injury to Stefan Nimke, he was briefly used in the race. In the sprint, he finished seventh.

After Förstemann had missed the qualification for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he announced a break of several months and ended the cooperation with his previous trainer Emanuel Raasch .

In two races of the Track Cycling World Cup , Förstemann won the team sprint, in Cali with Max Niederlag , Eric Engler and Maximilian Dörnbach , in Manchester with Maximilian Levy and Joachim Eilers . At the European Railway Championships in Berlin Förstemann, Maximilian Levy and Joachim Eilers won the silver medal.

In January 2019, Robert Förstemann fell in the Bremen six-day race ; he broke three ribs, one collarbone and suffered cuts on his face. He needed an operation. The reason for the fall was apparently a defect on the front wheel.

Paracycling

On December 31, 2018, Förstemann left the Association of German Cyclists and will in future be a pilot in tandem races for the German Disabled Sports Association . His first start was at the UCI Paracycling World Track Championships 2019 in Apeldoorn as a pilot for the visually impaired athlete Kai Kruse . In the 1000 meter time trial, the duo finished seventh. At the World Championships the following year, the duo won their first international medal together with bronze.

Records

Robert Förstemann set a German record over the 200 meter distance (flying start) on May 28, 2010, on the occasion of the "Grand Prix of Sprinters - Alexander Lesnikov Memorial" on the Olympic track in Moscow-Krylatskoje (9.893 s) and improved it in the same place on May 29, 2011 (9.814 s). On June 24, 2012 Robert Förstemann achieved a time of 9.652 s at the US Grand Prix of Sprinting in Colorado Springs. In qualifying for the sprint tournament of the second run of the International Sparkasse Sprinter Cup on June 23, 2013 in Cottbus, Robert Förstemann also set a new flat track world record in a time of 9.790 seconds.

Robert Förstemann held several track records. On July 9, 2011, he improved at the German track championships, for example. B. the twelve-year-old track record in the Berlin Velodrome of 10.026 s, which Jens Fiedler (10.069 s) had previously held. He was the track record holder in Colorado, Valencia, Glasgow, Cottbus, Tula, Oberhausen, Vienna and Apeldoorn.

In December 2013 Förstemann won the team sprint together with René Enders and Joachim Eilers in the second run of the Track Cycling World Cup 2013/2014 ; 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 .

Clubs and coaches

Förstemann (r.) With his trainer Jochen Wilhelm (2004)
Förstemann on the train (2009)
Robert Förstemann (l.) At the EM 2017 with Levy (center) and Eilers after winning the silver medal in the team sprint

Förstemanns Heimatverein has been SSV Gera 1990 since 2001 . From 2004 he started for the "Sprintteam Stadtwerke Erfurt " and the "XXL natural gas team"; from 2009 to 2012 for the natural gas team . 2012 . Since April 2012 he starts exclusively for his home club. Until 2005 he was a high school student at the Elite School of Sports Pierre-de-Coubertin-Gymnasium in Erfurt and has been a police officer with the Federal Police since 2009 . He belongs to the Federal Police Sports School Kienbaum . Förstemann was trained by Jörg Uwe Krünägel and Emanuel Raasch from 2006 ; former coaches were Wolf-Dieter Lampke (2001/2002), Andreas Wartenberg (2002), Gerald Mortag (2002/2003) and Jochen Wilhelm (2003 to 2006).

Honors

In 2008 Förstemann was awarded the silver medal of the city of Gera ; In 2009 and 2010 he received the gold badge of honor. On November 7, 2012, Federal President Joachim Gauck presented him with the Silver Laurel Leaf , the highest state award for top performance in German sport.

Private

Robert Förstemann married in June 2011 and has had a son since 2013, and a second son was born in 2017.

His thighs, which are 73 centimeters in circumference, attract special attention. He claims to have a congenital malfunction of the protein myostatin , which would normally inhibit muscle growth.

successes

elite

2003

2004

2005

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

European champion European champion team sprint (with Maximilian Levy and René Enders )

2014

2015

2016

2017

Paracycling

Web links

Commons : Robert Förstemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Editor: Robert Förstemann announces a break of several months: “Start from scratch”. In: velomotion.de. February 3, 2016, accessed February 3, 2016 .
  2. Förstemann has to undergo an operation after a serious fall - cycling at. In: rad-net.de. January 13, 2019, accessed January 13, 2019 .
  3. Change to disabled sports: Förstemann hopes for World Cup success - cycling with. In: rad-net.de. December 31, 2018, accessed March 11, 2019 .
  4. Förstemann improves German best performance. In: lr-online.de. May 31, 2011, accessed June 12, 2015 .
  5. Förstemann sets a German record. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed June 12, 2015 .
  6. Förstemann from Gera wins the Sprinter Cup with a world record. June 24, 2013, accessed June 12, 2015 .
  7. Fiedler set this record during the UCI Track World Championships in 1999 .
  8. Germans start with three wins and two world records. radsport-news.com, accessed December 9, 2013 .
  9. Sportsman portrait . (No longer available online.) Bundespolizei.de, archived from the original on February 20, 2016 ; Retrieved February 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundespolizei.de
  10. Federal President Gauck honors Olympic and Paralympic medalists with a silver laurel leaf. November 7, 2012, accessed October 12, 2013 .
  11. Andreas Lorenz: Robert Förstemann: Being a dad is not a sprint! In: berliner-kurier.de. January 21, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
  12. Who tops these Olympic thighs? BZ Online, August 1, 2012