Trixi Worrack

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Trixi Worrack Road cycling
Trixi Worrack (2016)
Trixi Worrack (2016)
To person
Date of birth September 28, 1981
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Road / cross-country / train
To the team
Current team Trek-Segafredo
function driver
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018
World Champion - team time trial
UCI Road World Championships (U23)
1998 World Champion - individual time trial
Last updated: August 14, 2020
Trixi Worrack in the individual time trial at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Trixi Worrack wins German road race champion (2015)

Trixi Worrack (born September 28, 1981 in Cottbus ) is a German cyclist who is active on the road , on the track and in cyclo-cross races. She is five times world champion and eleven times German champion (as of 2018) .

Athletic career

Worrack grew up in Dissen in the Spreewald , where she still lives today (as of 2015) . At the age of 14 she began to compete in bicycle races. In total, she was German junior champion five times. She won gold, silver and bronze medals at junior world championships. After her junior years, she rode for three years in the Bundesliga team Red Bull and then switched to Equipe Nürnberger , which was called Noris Cycling in 2010 , to Team AA Drink-leontien.nl in 2011 and to Team Specialized-lululemon , currently Canyon SRAM, in 2012 Racing means.

Worrack achieved numerous international successes in the adult sector. She won important stage races , such as B. the Tour de l'Aude , the prestigious one-day race Primavera Rosa (the counterpart of the cycling classic Milan – Sanremo for women) and the Giro della Toscana . She competed four times - 2004 , 2008 , 2012 and 2016 - at the Olympic Games; her best placement was ninth in the individual time trial at the 2012 London Games .

At the UCI Road World Championships in 2005 , she played a key role in the success of her teammate Regina Schleicher as a start-up , and she herself finished tenth. In 2006 she was runner-up in the sprint of a 15-man top group behind Marianne Vos at the Road World Championships .

Overall, Trixi Worrack has been world champion in team time trial five times , most recently in 2018, at the road world championships in Innsbruck, Austria, with her team Canyon SRAM Racing .

In March 2016 Worrack had a serious fall at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda ; one kidney had to be removed during an operation . In an interview ten days after the operation, she stated that she was planning to continue cycling despite this serious procedure. On June 11, 2016, she contested the Albstadt women's stage race, her first race after the operation. A few days later, the doctors gave their permission to start Worrack at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

Regardless of the health impairment, Trixi Worrack won the title of German champion in the individual time trial at the end of June 2017. In the following year, she won the bronze medal in the time trial at the European Championships and was world champion in the team time trial for the fifth time .

Palmarès

1998
1999
2001
  • a stage Women's Challenge
2002
  • European champion U23 European Championships road racing
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Teams

Web links

Commons : Trixi Worrack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Trixi Worrack. In: trixi-worrack.de. May 11, 2015, accessed November 27, 2015 .
  2. faz.ne of September 24, 2005: The team makes Regina Schleicher the world champion
  3. radsport-news.com from September 23, 2006: Worrack with World Cup silver "a little disappointed"
  4. Felix Mattis: Worrack seriously injured: Emergency surgery on the kidney. In: radsport-news.com. March 22, 2016, accessed March 22, 2016 .
  5. Worrack had to have the left kidney removed in emergency surgery. In: radsport-news.com. March 29, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016 .
  6. I only have one heart. In: radsport-news.com. March 31, 2016, accessed June 24, 2016 .
  7. Felix Mattis: radsport-news.com - Brennauer celebrates Worrack's comeback in Auenstein. In: radsport-news.com. June 11, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2016 .
  8. Doctors give permission after kidney surgery: Worrack to Rio. In: rad-net.de. June 14, 2016, accessed June 14, 2016 .