Zak Kovalcik

Zak Kovalcik
To person
Full name	Zachary Kovalcik
Nickname	Zak
Date of birth	April 26, 1983
nation	United States
discipline	Track cycling
Most important successes
	Pan American Championships 2017 - two-man team driving 2016 - Scratch 2016 - Omnium
	Last updated: November 20, 2019

Zachary "Zak" Kovalcik (born April 26, 1983 in Pittsburgh ) is an American track cyclist .

Athletic career

Zak Kovalcik comes from the fixie scene and began his cycling career as a bicycle courier. After winning two national courier titles and moving to Portland , Oregon , he began racing at the Alpenrose Velodrome . He was twice the American team pursuit champion , in 2012 with Joe Eldridge , David Holt and Zack Noonan , and in 2014 with Zach Allison , Alexander Darville and Adrian Hegyvary .

Until 2015, Zak Kovalcik competed three times in the Berlin six-day race in the standing competition there at the mediation of Jack Simes and at the invitation of Rainer Podlesch . As a conspicuous driver with a flashy hairstyle, tattoos and piercings , he developed into a crowd favorite. Kovalcik is vegan and, together with other vegans, forms the Portland Punk Kids team .

In 2016, Zak Kovalcik won two medals at the Pan-American championships: he won silver in the scratch and bronze in the omnium . In the scratch he became US champion that year. In 2017 he and Zachary Carlson won the Pan-American championship in two-man team driving .

successes

2012

American Champion - Team Pursuit (with Joe Eldridge , Daniel Holt and Zack Noonan )

2014

American Champion - Team Pursuit (with Zach Allison , Alexander Darville and Adrian Hegyvary )

2016

Pan American Championship - Scratch
Pan American Championship - Omnium
American Champion - Scratch, two-man team driving (with Bobby Lea )

2017

Pan American Champions - two-man team driving (with Zachary Carlson )

Web links

Zak Kovalcik in the Radsportseiten.net database

Pat Malach: American Kovalcik keeps staer tradition alive at Berlin Six Day. In: Cyclingnews. February 2, 2015, accessed May 9, 2015 .

Spandex and Bullet Belts. In: Zak Kovalcik's blog. February 24, 2015, accessed May 9, 2015 .

Individual evidence

↑ Steher - The official website for the Berlin 6-day race. In: Six days in Berlin. February 28, 1980, archived from the original on May 19, 2015 ; accessed on May 9, 2015 .
^ Dave Campbell: Stayer Racing - Insights from Zak Kovalcik. In: bicyclepaper.com. May 23, 2015, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 10, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kovalcik, Zak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kovalcik, Zachary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 26, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pittsburgh

[1] Steher - The official website for the Berlin 6-day race. In: Six days in Berlin. February 28, 1980, archived from the original on May 19, 2015 ; accessed on May 9, 2015 .

[2] Dave Campbell: Stayer Racing - Insights from Zak Kovalcik. In: bicyclepaper.com. May 23, 2015, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 10, 2015 .