Tim Kleinwächter

Tim Kleinwächter

Tim Kleinwächter (2016)
To person
Date of birth	July 8, 1989
nation	Germany
discipline	Paracycling (TB) - rail / road
To the team
Current team	Herrmann cycling team
Societies)
	SC DHfK Leipzig RC 88 Neustadt ad Aisch
Last updated: March 13, 2020

Tim Kleinwächter (born July 8, 1989 in Ochsenfurt ) is a German paracycler .

In 2006, Tim Kleinwächter suffered a bicycle accident at the age of 17 and was then in a coma for four weeks . Since then, his optic nerves have been badly damaged. He could not take up the dream job of carpenter , instead he trained as a masseur and physiotherapist . In 2007 he also started running and triathlon . In 2011 he rode a tandem with a friend as his pilot for the first time and was able to recommend himself to the German paracycling team with good competition results .

At the UCI Paracycling World Championships in 2014 , Kleinwächter finished eighth on the tandem behind the pilot Erik Mohs in the single pursuit and ninth in the 1000-meter time trial , on the road he also finished eighth with Mohs. The following year he was tenth at the road world championships .

After Mohs ended his cycling career in 2016, the cyclist Peter Renner Kleinwachter became the new pilot. Since autumn 2018 he has been training together with Olympic champion Stefan Nimke with the aim of starting tandem races on the track at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo . The cooperation is made more difficult by the great distance between their places of residence Schwerin and Bad Windsheim . Kleinwächter wants to continue racing on the road with Renner.

At the end of November 2018, Kleinwächter and Nimke became German champions in the single pursuit over 4000 meters in the Frankfurt Oderlandhalle and set a German record with 4: 27.41 minutes.

Web links

Commons : Tim Kleinwächter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tim Kleinwächter. German Paralympic Team, accessed March 11, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fought back to life with sport. In: nordbayern.de. August 6, 2006, accessed March 12, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Para cycling: "I give everything for my lifelong dream". German Paralympic Team, March 11, 2019, accessed on March 12, 2019 .