Thomas Liese

Thomas Liese (born August 10, 1968 in Sangerhausen ) is a former German racing cyclist and later coach. As a racing cyclist, he became world track champion in 1989. From 2008 to 2012 he was the national coach of the German women's team.

Career as a racing cyclist

Thomas Liese started as an amateur for SC DHfK Leipzig . With the GDR selection in 1985, Liese was track junior world champion in the team pursuit and won the silver medal in 1986. At the UCI rail world championships in 1989 he was able to win the title with the GDR's four-wheeler in the elite category. At the last GDR championships in 1990 he won the team pursuit title with the four from Leipzig.

On the road , Liese won numerous international races including the stage races Olympia’s Tour , Lower Saxony Tour , Tour de Liège , Tour of Greece and twice the Saxony Tour . In 2001 he became German champion in the individual time trial . Liese took for the team Bianchi at the 2003 Tour de France as a helper of the entire Second Jan Ullrich part and finished the race in 136. At the end of the 2005 season, he finished his career as Active.

Work as a trainer

In 2008, Liese succeeded Jochen Dornbusch as coach of the German women's national team. In May 2012 it became known that Liese was ill and could not look after the team at the Olympic Games in London ; Ronny Lauke stood in for him . His contract, which was limited to the end of 2012, was not extended by the BDR . He was succeeded by André Korff .

successes

1989 a stage and prologue tour of Lower Saxony Overall ranking and two stages of the Olympia's Tour Track World Championships - Team Pursuit 1990 Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour de Liège a stage tour of Lower Saxony 1991 a stage GP Ciclismo Torres Vedras a stage tour of Lower Saxony 1992 a stage tour of Lower Saxony German amateur champion - individual time trial 1993 three stages tour of Lower Saxony 1994 a stage tour of Bavaria 1995 a stage tour of Bavaria a stage tour of Lower Saxony 1996 Prologue International Peace Tour one stage Giro del Capo Chrono Hannover (pair time trial with Jens Lehmann )

1997 German champion - team pursuit one stage of the International Peace Tour a stage tour of Lower Saxony 1998 Around the Hainleite one stage of the International Peace Tour Overall classification, three stages and mountain classification Tour of Greece one stage tour of Thuringia Overall ranking and a stage of the tour of Saxony 2000 Overall ranking of the Sachsen-Rundfahrt one stage tour of Hessen 2001 one stage Tour of Normandy a stage of Settimana Lombarda one stage of the International Peace Tour German champion - individual time trial 2002 a stage GP de Beauce 2003 a stage tour of Bavaria

Teams

• 1999–2002 Team Nürnberger
• 2003-2003 Team Coast
• 2004–2005 Winfix-Arnold's security / Akud Arnold's security

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rad Sport Kontakt GmbH (ed.): Rad-Bundesliga 1993 . Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 17 .
2. ↑ BDR: Ex-professional Liese becomes national coach of women on Mittelbayerische.de v. October 11, 2008
3. ↑ bdr-medienservice.de v. May 21, 2012
4. ↑ BDR is looking for a successor to women's national coach Liese on radsport-news.com v. 17th December 2012
5. ↑ André Korff new women's national trainer on rad-net.de v. January 16, 2013

Web links

• Official website
• Thomas Liese in the Radsportseiten.net database