Katrin Schultheis and Sandra Sprinkmeier
The cyclists Katrin Schultheis and Sandra Sprinkmeier are a former German art bike duo and six-time world champions in two-man art cycling.
Career
Katrin Schultheis came to artistic cycling through her friend Sandra Sprinkmeier in 1995 and since 2002 the two have ridden together in the German national team.
They were trained by Marcus Klein , were able to qualify eleven times in a row for participation in world championships and win gold six times: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014.
World championships
From 2004 to 2006 they became vice world champions three times in a row. In November 2007 the two of them won the world championship title in two-man artificial cycling for women for the first time, which they successfully defended in 2008 and 2009. In 2010 they became vice world champions in Stuttgart . In 2011 they were able to regain the world title and win it again in 2012. At the 2013 World Cup in Basel they were defeated by the German duo Jasmin Soika and Katharina Wurster with 150.18 to 150.97 points. In 2014 they were able to win the rainbow jersey of the world champions in two-man artificial cycling in Brno in the Czech Republic .
Until the end of 2007 they held the world record with 316.39 points, which was repealed by the regulations of the Union Cycliste Internationale , which have been in effect since 2008 . They currently hold the world record again with 165.12 points, set at the 2nd German Masters 2013 in Kirchdorf an der Iller .
German championships
They won the German championships in 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2014. And from 2006 to 2008 and from 2010 to 2014 they celebrated eight overall victory in the German Masters series.
The duo started for the RV Mainz-Ebersheim and their training facilities were mainly in Ebersheim , Wörrstadt as well as Klein-Winternheim and Mainz-Hechtsheim . Outside of pure competitive sport, the two have performed together with a show program for years.
In December 2014, Schultheis and Sprinkmeier announced their retirement from competitive sports.
Vita
Katrin Schultheis
Katrin Schultheis was born on January 25, 1984 in Mainz . She is a physiotherapist by profession and is also Vice President of the Rheinhessen Cycling Association .
Katrin Schultheis (2006)
Katrin Schultheis (2011)
Sandra Sprinkmeier
Sandra Sprinkmeier was born on May 31, 1984 in Mainz. Today she works as a high school teacher for sports and mathematics.
Sandra Sprinkmeier (2006)
Sandra Sprinkmeier (2011)
successes
Best performance: 318.90 points at the Tönges Cup 2005 in Mainz-Ebersheim.
Best performance (new rating): 165.12 points
Here is a list of the greatest successes:
- 2014
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Artistic cycling world champions at the 2014 indoor cycling world championships in Brno
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German champions 2014, Denkendorf
- Overall winners of the German Masters
- 2013
- Vice-World Champion Kunstrad at the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2013 in Basel with 150.18 points
- Overall winners of the German Masters
- Improvement of the world record to 165.12 pts.
- 2012
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World champions artificial bike at the indoor cycling world championships 2012 in Aschaffenburg
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German champions 2012
- Overall winners of the German Masters
- Improvement of the world best to 160.75 points
- 2011
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World champion artificial bike at the indoor cycling world championships 2011 in Kagoshima, Japan
- Overall winners of the German Masters
- Improvement of the world record to 160.43 points and thus the first female drivers to break the 160-point mark.
- Winners of the International Rheinhessen Cup, Worms Kunstrad Cup
- 2010
- Vice-World Champion Kunstrad at the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2010 in Stuttgart
- Overall winners of the German Masters
- Improvement of the world record to 156.33 points
- German runners-up
- Winners of the Three Nations Cup in Pfungen (Switzerland), Worms Kunstrad Cup, International Pankrac Cup Memoriál Jana Krištůfka in Prague and the International Lake Constance Championship in Mühlhausen-Ehingen
- 2009
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World champions artificial bike at the indoor cycling world championships 2009 in Tavira (Portugal)
- UCI ranking winners
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German champions 2009
- Improvement of the world record to 150.75 points
- Improvement of the German record to 152.35 points
- Improvement of the world best to 155.75 points
- 2008
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World Champions Artistic Bike at the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2008 in Dornbirn (Austria)
- UCI ranking winners
- German Masters winners 2008
- Germany Cup Winners 2008
- German runner-up in 2008
- 1st place German Masters (final) in Weissach iT
- 1st place German Masters (final) in Duisburg
- 1st place German Masters (final) in Moers
- 2nd place Festival of World Records
- 2007
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World champions artificial bike at the indoor cycling world championships 2007 in Winterthur
- New world record with 316.39 points in the preliminary round of the world championship
- UCI ranking winners
- German Masters series winners
- 2006
- Vice-World Champion Kunstrad at the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2006 in Chemnitz
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German champions
- New world record with 316.18 points in the German championship
- German Masters series winners (with victory in all rounds)
- National best list: 1st place
- 2005
- UCI ranking winners
- Vice-world champion Kunstrad at the indoor cycling world championships 2005 in Freiburg im Breisgau
- German vice-champions
- 2nd place in the German Masters series
- 5th place “Cyclists of the Year”, chosen by the readers of the magazine Radsport
- 2004
- UCI ranking winners
- Vice-World Champion Artistic Bike at the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2004 in Tata (Hungary)
- German vice-champions
- 3rd place European Team Cup
- 2nd place in the German Masters series
- National best list: 2nd place
- 2003
- Bronze medal at the German championship
Awards
- “Team of the Year” in 2008, 2009 and 2012 in the Rhineland-Palatinate state athlete election
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Artistic cycling world champions - handstand on the handlebar (November 20, 2009)
- ↑ Artistic cycling / World Championships in Dornbirn; swr.de; As of October 26, 2008
- ↑ Artistic cycling world champions: Handstand on the handlebars by Matthias Klein in Frankfurter Rundschau on November 20, 2009
- ↑ UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships Stuttgart, 26. – 28. November 2010 - A world championship in a class of its own
- ↑ German double victory in 2-man artificial cycling: Schultheis / Sprinkmeier dethrone Soika / Wurster (23 November 2014)
- ↑ Indoor Cycling World Championships 2007 in Winterthur ( Memento from November 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "350 spectators enthusiastic about the cycling spectacle" in Allgemeine Zeitung
- ↑ Kunstrad duo Katrin Schultheis and Sandra Sprinkmeier say goodbye to competitive sports. rad-net.de, January 7, 2015, accessed on January 7, 2015 .
- ↑ "An emotional increase is no longer possible" (December 31, 2014)
- ↑ Cycling: Mega successes at the Kunstrad DM (October 29, 2014)
- ↑ Kunstrad World Championship in Basel: Gold for the Bugner brothers, silver for Schultheis / Sprinkmeier by Bardo Rudolf on Allgemeine-zeitung.de from November 25, 2013
- ↑ Kunstrad: Schultheis / Sprinkmeier pulverize Bardo Rudolf's world record at the German Masters , Rhein Main Presse of 23 September 2013
- ↑ Sport: Artistic cycling world champion from Ebersheim - women's two-man improves world record ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) by Bardo Rudolf, Rhein Main Presse from November 5, 2011
- ↑ Mainz double victory at the Artistic Cycling World Championships in Portugal in the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz on November 8, 2009
- ↑ Successes - Website of Schultheis and Sprinkmeier
- ↑ The state athletes election 2008, SWR television , broadcast: Floodlight from January 18, 2009
- ↑ Shining role models for all of us - State Athlete Election 2012 (January 14, 2013)