Steve Hegg

Steve Hegg (born December 3, 1963 in Dana Point ) is a retired American cyclist .

Hegg was the American team pursuit champion in 1983 . In 1984 he became US champion in the 4,000 m single pursuit . At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , he started in the singles and in the team pursuit. Hegg won the single pursuit in front of the German Rolf Gölz and his compatriot Leonard Nitz . With the team, Hegg also reached the final, which the Americans, who were equipped with superior technical equipment and who were highly favored, surprisingly lost to Australia . Shortly after the competitions in Los Angeles it turned out that Hegg and Nitz had doped each other with foreign blood. But that had no consequences for the athletes, as this practice was not prohibited at the time.

In 1986 Hegg again won the national team pursuit championships, and in 1987 the team time trial on the road at the Pan American Games. In 1989 and 1990 Hegg was again national champion in the single pursuit, in 1990 he was also US champion in the individual time trial . In 1994 Hegg was then US champion in road racing, in 1995 and 1996 again national champion in the 4,000 m individual pursuit and thus qualified for participation in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , where he was unable to win a medal. Hegg, who has been a professional since 1988, ended his active career in 2001.

In 2006 Steve Hegg was inducted into the American Cycling Hall of Fame .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A lot of profit , in: Der Spiegel v. July 1, 1985

Web links

• Short biography in the Hall of Fame of American Cycling
• Steve Hegg in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Steve Hegg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )