Sandra Schumacher

Sandra Schumacher
To person
Date of birth	December 25, 1966
nation	Germany
Most important successes
	Olympic games Road race 1984 World championships Road race 1985 German championships Road race 1984 Road race 1985
	Last updated: November 11, 2014

Sandra Schumacher (born December 25, 1966 in Stuttgart ) is a former German cyclist .

Life

When she was twelve, Sandra Schumacher drove her first bike race. She was German road racing champion four times, twice in the juniors (1982/83), twice in the women (1984/85).

Five years later, at the age of 17, Sandra Schumacher won the bronze medal behind the Americans Connie Carpenter-Phinney and Rebecca Twigg in the first ever Olympic road race for women at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles .

The following year, 1985, Schumacher finished third at the UCI Road World Championships in Giavera del Montello , Italy , despite breaking her arm only eight weeks earlier. In 1986 she was sixth in the Tour de France . In a controversial decision, she was not nominated for the 1988 Olympic Games.

In 1990 she married the cyclist Mathias Kratz and in 1992 she became a mother. In 1993 she made her comeback and won the Tour de Feminin Krásná Lípa; in 1995 she again achieved third place in the overall ranking of the Thuringia round trip for women .

Palmarès

Olympic games:

1984: third

World Championships:

1982: fourth

1983: 14.

1985: third

1986: sixth

1987: eighth (team)

1988: fourth (team), sixth (3,000 m pursuit)

1993: fourth (team)

Stage race :

Tour de France : 1986 sixth

Tour of Norway: 1983 winner, 1985 fourth

Tour of Thuringia: 1993 fourth

German championships:

Street:

1984 winner

1985 winner

1986 fourth

1987 12.

1988 sixth

1993 sixth

Train:

1984 winner 3,000 m pursuit

German Junior Championships:

1983: winner

German Girls' Championships:

1981: second

1982: winner

Web links

Sandra Schumacher in the Radsportseiten.net database

Sandra Kratz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Sandra Kratz in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

↑ Uwe Prieser: Sandra Schumacher. The road under the bike. The first race at twelve - and suddenly it was competitive sport. In: Zeit Online . July 24, 1987, accessed December 6, 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schumacher, Sandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart

[1] Uwe Prieser: Sandra Schumacher. The road under the bike. The first race at twelve - and suddenly it was competitive sport. In: Zeit Online . July 24, 1987, accessed December 6, 2014 .