Miriam Welte

German cyclist (born 1986)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German.  (April 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

* View a machine-translated version of the German article.
* Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
* Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
* You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is `Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Miriam Welte]]; see its history for attribution.`
* You may also add the template `{{Translated|de|Miriam Welte}}` to the talk page.
* For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

|

Miriam Welte

Personal information
Born|  (1986-12-09) 9 December 1986 (age 37)
Kaiserslautern, West Germany
Height| 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight| 67 kg (148 lb)
Team information
Discipline| Track
Role| Rider
Rider type| Sprinter

Medal record

Women's track cycling
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
| 2012 London | Team sprint
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Team sprint
World Championships
| 2012 Melbourne | Team sprint
| 2013 Minsk | Team sprint
| 2014 Cali | Team sprint
| 2014 Cali | 500 m time trial
| 2018 Apeldoorn | 500 m time trial
| 2018 Apeldoorn | Team sprint
| 2012 Melbourne | 500 m time trial
| 2013 Minsk | 500 m time trial
| 2017 Hong Kong | 500 m time trial
| 2011 Apeldoorn | 500 m time trial
| 2015 Yvelines | 500 m time trial
| 2016 London | Team sprint
| 2017 Hong Kong | Team sprint
| 2019 Pruszków | Team sprint
European Championships
| 2017 Berlin | 500 m time trial
| 2013 Apeldoorn | Team sprint
| 2014 Baie-Mahault | Team sprint
| 2015 Grenchen | Team sprint
| 2017 Berlin | Team sprint
| 2011 Apeldoorn | Team sprint
| 2014 Baie-Mahault | 500 m time trial
| 2018 Glasgow | 500 m time trial
| 2018 Glasgow | Team sprint

Miriam Welte (born 9 December 1986) is a German track cyclist.

## Career

[edit]

At the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne, Welte and Kristina Vogel won the gold medal in the team sprint. They set a world record in qualifying which they broke again in the final.[1]

On 22 June 2012, she set a new world record of 10.643 seconds in the individual sprint event.[2]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she and Vogel won the team sprint gold medal.[3]

Welte was trained by her step-father, Frank Ziegler. In 2002, she finished second in the German National Junior 500 m time trial. From 2006 to 2008, she won the senior version of the event.

Welte and Vogel on the podium at the 2012 Track World Championships

## Major Results

[edit]

2008
UEC European U23 Track Championships

1st Keirin
1st Sprint
2nd 500m Time Trial

2014
1st Keirin, Oberhausen
Dudenhofen

1st Keirin
1st Sprint
1st Team Sprint, Cottbuser Nächte (with Kristina Vogel)
Sprintermeeting

1st Keirin
1st Sprint
UEC European Track Championships

2nd Team Sprint (with Kristina Vogel)
3rd 500m Time Trial
3rd Sprint, Track-Cycling Challenge Grenchen
2015
2nd Team Sprint, UEC European Track Championships (with Kristina Vogel)
Internationale Radsport Meeting

2nd 500m Time Trial
3rd Keirin
3rd Sprint
2nd Keirin, Cottbuser Nächte
3rd Team Sprint, GP von Deutschland im Sprint (with Kristina Vogel)
2016
GP von Deutschland im Sprint

1st Team Sprint (with Kristina Vogel)
3rd Sprint
2nd Sprint, Track-Cycling Challenge Grenchen
Cottbuser SprintCup

2nd 500m Time Trial
3rd Sprint
3rd Team Sprint, UCI World Track Championships

2017
UEC European Track Championships

1st 500m Time Trial
2nd Team Sprint (with Kristina Vogel)
GP von Deutschland im Sprint

1st Team Sprint (with Pauline Grabosch)
2nd Keirin
Siberne Eule von Ludwigshafen

1st Sprint
2nd Keirin
TROFEU CIUTAT DE BARCELONA-Memorial Miquel Poblet

1st Sprint
2nd Keirin
Track Cycling Challenge

1st Keirin
1st Sprint
UCI World Track Championships

2nd 500m Time Trial
3rd Team Sprint (with Kristina Vogel)
2nd Sprint, Dudenhofen

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Aubrey, Jane (4 April 2012). "Germany set new world record twice en-route to rainbow jersey". Cycling News.
2. ^ Women's Sprint : Records Archived 26 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine. London 2012 official website.
3. ^ "Germany Cycling at the 2012 London Summer Games | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2016.

## External links

[edit]

* Official website
* Miriam Welte at Cycling Archives (archived)
* Miriam Welte at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

* v
* t
* e

Olympic Cycling Champions in Women's Team Sprint

* 2012:  Kristina Vogel & Miriam Welte (GER)
* 2016:  Gong Jinjie & Zhong Tianshi (CHN)
* 2020:  Bao Shanju & Zhong Tianshi (CHN)
* 2024:  Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell & Emma Finucane (GBR)

* v
* t
* e

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Women's 500 m time trial

* 1995–99: Félicia Ballanger
* 2000: Natallia Tsylinskaya
* 2001: Nancy Contreras
* 2002–03: Natallia Tsylinskaya
* 2004: Anna Meares
* 2005–06: Natallia Tsylinskaya
* 2007: Anna Meares
* 2008: Lisandra Guerra
* 2009: Simona Krupeckaitė
* 2010: Anna Meares
* 2011: Olga Ismayilova
* 2012: Anna Meares
* 2013: Lee Wai Sze
* 2014: Miriam Welte
* 2015–16: Anastasia Voynova
* 2017: Daria Shmeleva
* 2018: Miriam Welte
* 2019: Daria Shmeleva
* 2020–21: Lea Friedrich
* 2022: Taky Marie-Divine Kouamé
* 2023: Emma Hinze
* 2024: Yana Burlakova

* v
* t
* e

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Women's team sprint

* 2007: Great Britain (Victoria Pendleton, Shanaze Reade)
* 2008: Great Britain (Victoria Pendleton, Shanaze Reade)
* 2009–11: Australia (Kaarle McCulloch, Anna Meares)
* 2012–14: Germany (Kristina Vogel, Miriam Welte)
* 2015: China (Gong Jinjie, Zhong Tianshi)
* 2016–17: Russia (Daria Shmeleva, Anastasia Voynova)
* 2018: Germany (Kristina Vogel, Miriam Welte, Pauline Grabosch)
* 2019: Australia (Kaarle McCulloch, Stephanie Morton)
* 2020: Germany (Pauline Grabosch, Emma Hinze, Lea Friedrich)
* 2021–23: Germany (Lea Friedrich, Pauline Grabosch, Emma Hinze)
* 2024: Great Britain (Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane)

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany

People|

* Deutsche Biographie

This biographical article related to a German cycling person born in the 1980s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template