Torsten Schmidt (cyclist)

Torsten Schmidt (born February 18, 1972 in Schwelm ) is a German cycling trainer and former racing cyclist .

Athletic career

In 1988 Torsten Schmidt was two-time German champion, together with Holger Stach , Andreas Beikirch and Lars Teutenberg in the team pursuit of the amateurs and junior champion in road racing . In 1992 he and Beikirch won the national title in two-man team driving .

Torsten Schmidt became vice world champion in team pursuit on the track in 1993 together with Guido Fulst , Andreas Bach and Jens Lehmann . From 1997 he drove for the professional team Roslotto-ZG Mobili , with which he also took part for the first time in the Tour de France , which he finished in 136th place overall. In 1999 he celebrated his first victories with the Chicky World team . He won the Route Adélie and the Lower Saxony Tour . He then switched to the German GSII team Gerolsteiner and was able to repeat his overall victory in the Lower Saxony Tour. Between 1997 and 2007 he drove all major country tours and countless World Cup road races .

In the 2001 season, Torsten Schmidt won a stage each in the Hessen Tour and the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour before he was only successful again in 2004. In 2005 he and his team won the Eindhoven team time trial . From 2006 Schmidt drove for the German Professional Continental Team Wiesenhof-Akud . He celebrated his last victory in 2006 when he won a stage of the International Peace Tour .

Professional and private

After the Wiesenhof team disbanded at the end of the 2007 season, Schmidt switched to the CSC team , later Saxo Bank, as sporting director . In 2011 he was the sports director of the Leopard Trek team and switched to the Katjuscha team in the 2012 season . In addition, he was national coach in Switzerland from August 2011, but resigned this position two months later and switched to the Katusha team .

Schmidt lives with his family in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and is on the board of the RSV Sturmvogel Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler .

Successes (selection)

1988 German Champion - Team Pursuit (with Holger Stach , Andreas Beikirch and Lars Teutenberg ) German Champion - Road Race (Juniors) 1992 a stage Olympia's Tour German champion - two-man team driving (with Andreas Beikirch ) 1993 Track World Championships - Team Pursuit (with Andreas Bach , Guido Fulst and Jens Lehmann ) 1998 Overall ranking and one stage of the Tour de Normandie Around Düren a stage Rhineland-Palatinate tour a stage tour of Lower Saxony

1999 Route Adélie Overall ranking and a stage tour of Lower Saxony one stage tour of Argentina one stage tour of Hessen a stage Tour de Normandie 2000 Overall ranking and a stage tour of Lower Saxony Grand Prix EnBW 2001 a stage Rhineland-Palatinate tour one stage tour of Hessen 2004 a stage Rhineland-Palatinate tour 2005 Team time trial Eindhoven 2006 a stage of the peace journey

Teams

driver 1996 The Continentale Olympia 1997 Roslotto-ZG Mobili 1998–1999 Team Chicky World 2000–2005 Team Gerolsteiner 2006 Wiesenhof-Akud 2007 Team Wiesenhof-Felt

Sports director 2008–2010 Team CSC / Saxobank 2011 Team Leopard Trek 2011–2012 National Coach Road - Men (Switzerland) 2012-2018 Katusha

Web links

• Torsten Schmidt in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Thorsten Schmidt as sporting director in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Torsten Schmidt (cyclist) in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Torsten Schmidt is the new national coach in Switzerland. rad-net.de, August 13, 2011, accessed December 15, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Swiss Cycling and Cancellara in future without Schmidt. Aargauer Zeitung, October 20, 2011, accessed December 15, 2013 . 
3. ^ RSV Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. Retrieved December 15, 2013 .