Stefan Steinweg

Stefan Steinweg

Stefan Steinweg (2000)
To person
Date of birth	February 24, 1969
nation	Germany
discipline	train
Driver type	endurance
End of career	2008
Most important successes
Olympic games 1992 Olympic champion in team pursuit World championships 2000 world champion in Madison 1991 amateur world champion in team pursuit 1986 amateur world champion in points race
Last updated: July 14, 2018

Stefan Steinweg (born February 24, 1969 in Dortmund ) is a former German cyclist and multiple world champion. In 1992 he became an Olympic champion.

Career

Stefan Steinweg was mainly active as a track cyclist and especially drove six-day races . He achieved his first international success at the age of 17 when he became junior world champion in points racing .

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, ​​Steinweg and his four- sculler (together with Guido Fulst , Jens Lehmann , Michael Glöckner and Andreas Walzer ) became the Olympic champion in the 4,000 m team pursuit . At the Track Cycling World Championships in Stuttgart in 1991 , he was world champion with the track four (together with Glöckner, Walzer and Lehmann). In 2000 he won the UCI World Track Championships in Manchester , in the two-man team driving with Erik Weispfennig . He was also ten times World Cup winner and German champion.

Stefan Steinweg started in 61 six-day races. Although he only managed one victory (in New Caledonia ), his driving style made him one of the crowd's favorites.

Steinweg's two-year ban because of the import of notifiable drugs to Australia, which he carried with him when he entered a vacation / training camp in Bendigo in 2003, was lifted by the International Court of Justice on appeal. One of the reasons for his acquittal was that he did not have a valid BDR license at the time of the crime.

In September 2008 Stefan Steinweg ended his active career.

successes

1986

• Junior World Champion - points race

1987

• Junior World Championship - points race

1989

• German amateur champion - two-man team driving (with Erik Weispfennig )

1991

• Amateur World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Michael Glöckner , Jens Lehmann , Andreas Walzer )

1992

• German Champion - Team Pursuit (with Guido Fulst , Jan Norden and Michael Bock )
• Olympic Champion - Team Pursuit (with Jens Lehmann , Andreas Walzer and Michael Glöckner )

1993

• German Champion - Team Pursuit (with Lars Teutenberg , Guido Fulst and Erik Weispfennig )

1998

• World Championship - two-man team driving (with Andreas Kappes )

• Track Cycling World Cup in Victoria - individual pursuit
• German champion - two-man team driving (with Erik Weispfennig )

1999

• Track cycling world cup in Cali - individual pursuit

2000

• UEC Derny European Championship (behind Peter Bäuerlein )

• World Champion - two-man team driving (with Erik Weispfennig )

• World Championship - Individual Pursuit

2001

• World Championship - Individual Pursuit

2002

• World Championship - Scratch

Awards

• 1992: Bambi of Honor
• 1992: Silver bay leaf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Steinweg. In: cyclebase.nl. Retrieved July 4, 2018 . 
2. ↑ The World , Issue 217/2003 of 17 September 2003; Page 24. Available online
3. ↑ Steinweg is happy too early. Frankfurter Allgemeine (online), September 23, 2009 (accessed June 27, 2018)
4. ↑ Steinweg banned for two years , Cyclingnews (English)

Web links

Commons : Stefan Steinweg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stefan Steinweg in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Stefan Steinweg in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Website by Stefan Steinweg