Tim Zühlke

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Tim Zühlke Road cycling
Tim Zühlke (2018)
Tim Zühlke (2018)
To person
Date of birth June 21, 1979
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Track cycling
To the team
Current team End of career
function Driver, coach
Societies)
RSC Turbine Erfurt
Most important successes

Track World Championships for Juniors
1997 : silver1000 meter time trial

Team (s) as coach
2010–2017
2017–2018
2019 		Olympic base Thuringia
national team China
national team Germany
Last updated: December 5, 2018

Tim Zühlke (born June 21, 1979 in Erfurt ) is a German cycling trainer and former track cyclist .

Zühlke with his protégé, the two-time Olympic champion Kristina Vogel

Tim Zühlke comes from a cycling family: his grandfather was a cycling trainer and his father was a track rider. Zühlke began his sporting career as a speed skater , but switched to cycling after the fall of the Berlin Wall . In 1997 he became vice-junior world champion in the 1000 meter time trial in Cape Town . In 1998 and 1999 he was third in national championships in team sprints , together with René Wolff and Matthias John .

Shortly afterwards, Zühlke ended his cycling career and started studying sports after dropping out of computer science. During his studies he did an internship at his home club RSC Turbine Erfurt , as assistant to the then trainer René Wolff . When he went to the Netherlands as national coach in 2009 , Zühlke became his successor at the Olympic Training Center in Thuringia in mid-2010, before he had finished his studies .

In 2013, Zühlke took over the management of the Project TeamSpirit team , in which the train drivers René Enders , Richard Aßmus and Maximilian Dörnbach are preparing specifically for the 2016 Olympic Games . After the previous sponsor of the team had withdrawn, the new sprint team Thuringia was presented in spring 2014 under Zühlke's leadership, which, in addition to Enders, Aßmus and Dörnbach, included the young athletes Doreen Heinze and Alexander Franz.

In September 2017, Zühlke moved to China as a coach. There he looked after the men's and women's sprint national teams. As one reason for his change, Zühlke stated that, in his opinion, the structures in German sport were not suitable for the long-term positive development of high-performance sport. After about a year as a coach in China, he was replaced by New Zealander Anthony Peden in 2018 after Zühlke terminated his contract due to disappointing framework conditions. On January 1, 2019, he was appointed national coach for the endurance area (track) of the juniors by the BDR and replaced the previous trainer Helmut Taudte , who was retiring.

Web links

Commons : Tim Zühlke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enders with "Team Spirit" on Olympic course on mdr.de ( Memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Vice world champion Enders leads the new Thuringian sprint team. Thüringer Allgemeine, April 7, 2014, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  3. ↑ China recruits Vogel's trainer - BDR with successor problems. In: radsport-news.com. August 17, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Thüringer Allgemeine , August 19, 2017, p. 25.
  5. ^ Olympic champion Wolff as national sprint coach in New Zealand. In: sueddeutsche.de =. September 20, 2018, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ From the national coach of China to the German national coach. In: radsport-thueringen.de. December 14, 2018, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Two new trainers in the BDR. In: bdr-medienservice.de. December 1, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Zühlke, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German track cyclist and cycling trainer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt