Team TheedProjekt-Cycling

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The Erdgas. 2012 team in 2019
Maximilian Levy, Erik Balzer and Maximilian Dörnbach (from left to right) became German champions in the team sprint in 2017
The team at the German Railway Championships 2018 in Dudenhofen
The 2014 team: Sascha Hübner, Erik Balzer, Kristina Vogel and Maximilian Levy (from left to right)

The team TheedProjekt cycling is Chemnitz wheel - team (racing community) with the status of UCI track team , the club team to the 2012 s. V. is affiliated and concentrates on the short-term disciplines on the railway. The club and team were founded in April 2009. The striking trademark is the jersey design with a dragon motif. Until 2019 the team operated under the name Team Erdgas . 2012 .

The team consists of athletes led by former track sprinters Jens Fiedler and Michael Hübner .

Since 2012, the team's athletes have won a total of three Olympic medals: Maximilian Levy won a silver in the keirin and a bronze in the team sprint at the 2012 Games in London. Kristina Vogel became Olympic sprint champion in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 .

Vogel's teammates Nik Schröter (left), Maximilian Dörnbach (center) and Maximilian Levy showed solidarity with the accident victim Kristina Vogel on their T-shirts (June 2018)

In June 2018, team member Kristina Vogel had a serious accident while training in the Cottbus cycling stadium . She suffered paraplegia and has been in a wheelchair ever since. The team initiated the crowdfunding campaign "#staystrongkristina" in order to be able to support the athlete and her family financially. The campaign raised around 120,000 euros.

Team members

Former team members

Successes (selection)

UCI Track World Championships 2018 in Apeldoorn
  • Gold Sprint, Team Sprint - Vogel
  • Gold team sprint - Grabosch
  • Bronze Keirin - Levy
UEC European Rail Championships 2017 in Berlin
  • Gold Sprint, Keirin-bird
  • Gold Keirin - Levy
  • Silver time trial - Grabosch
  • Silver team sprint - Vogel
  • Silver Team Sprint - Levy
2017 UCI Track World Championships in Hong Kong
  • Gold Sprint, Keirin-bird
  • Bronze team sprint - bird
Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro
  • Gold Sprint Bird
UCI Track World Championships 2016 in London
  • Gold Keirin-bird
  • Bronze Sprint, Team Sprint - Vogel
2015 UCI Track World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
  • Gold Sprint Bird
UEC European Rail Championships 2015 in Grenchen
  • Silver team sprint - Vogel
  • Bronze sprint bird
UCI Track World Championships 2014 in Cali
  • Gold Sprint, Keirin, Team Sprint - Vogel
UEC European Rail Championships 2014 in Baie-Mahault / Guadeloupe
  • Gold Keirin-bird
  • Silver team sprint - Vogel
  • Bronze sprint bird
UCI Track World Championships 2013 in Minsk
  • Gold team sprint - bird
  • Gold Team Sprint - Levy
  • Silver Keirin - Levy
UEC European Rail Championships 2013 in Apeldoorn
  • Gold Sprint Bird
  • Gold Keirin - Levy
  • Silver keirin-bird
  • Silver team sprint - Vogel
  • Bronze Team Sprint - Levy
UEC European Rail Championships 2013 (youngsters)
  • Gold team sprint - Balzer
  • Silver Sprint - Balzer
  • Bronze Keirin - Balzer
London 2012 Olympic Games
  • Silver Keirin - Levy
  • Bronze Team Sprint - Levy
UCI Track World Championships 2012 in Melbourne
  • Silver Keirin - Levy
UEC European Rail Championships 2012 in Panevėžys
  • Silver Sprint - Defeat
  • Silver Keirin - Eilers
  • Silver team sprint - defeat, Eilers
UEC European Rail Championships 2011 in the Omnisport Apeldoorn
  • Silver Sprint - Levy
UEC European Rail Championships 2011 (youngsters)
  • Gold team sprint - Bötticher, Eilers
  • Gold Sprint - Bötticher
  • Gold Keirin - Bötticher
  • Silver Keirin - Eilers
  • Silver time trial - Eilers
UCI Rail World Championships 2010 in Copenhagen
  • Gold Team Sprint - Förstemann (with Nimke and Levy)
UEC European Rail Championships 2010 in the BGŻ Arena in Pruszków
European Championships 2010 in Saint Petersburg (Juniors and U23)
  • Gold Keirin (U23) - Eilers
  • Gold Team Sprint (U23) - Eilers
  • Silver Sprint (U23) - Eilers

Club members

  • Michael Gertig - 1st Chairman
  • Sascha Hübner - 2nd chairman
  • Jens Fiedler - treasurer, team manager
  • Michael Hübner - Sports Director (Project Manager)
  • Erik Balzer , Thoralf Reiher, Knut Schmid, Renate Franz , Klaus Pedd (†)

Web links

Commons : Team TheedProjekt-Cycling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Frank Noack: Cyclists collect money for #staystrongkristina. In: lr-online.de. June 29, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  2. #staystrongkristina. In: 99funken.de. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .