Kristina Vogel
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Born | Leninskoye, Bishkek, Kirghiz SSR | 10 November 1990
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
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Discipline | Track |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Sprinter |
Medal record |
Kristina Vogel (born 10 November 1990) is a German former track cyclist. During her career, she won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games.[1] She was paralysed following a crash in June 2018.[2]
Career
Vogel was born in Leninskoye, a district of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, and moved to Germany with her parents when she was six months old.[3] In 2007 and 2008 she competed at the Junior European and World Championships and became a six-time junior world champion and two-time junior European champion.
In April 2009, Vogel was seriously injured after a collision with a minibus when riding on the roads near her home in Erfurt. She was in an artificial coma for two days. She competed at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, where she finished fifth in the individual sprint and sixth in the team sprint alongside Miriam Welte.[4] She also competed at the 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
At the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne, Vogel and Welte won the gold medal in the team sprint. They set a world record in qualifying which they broke again in the final.[5] Vogel and Welte would go on to win the first ever Olympic gold medal in women's team sprint later that year in London, benefiting from competitors being relegated in both the semifinal and final.
On 26 June 2018, in the Cottbus velodrome, Vogel collided full speed with a Dutch junior cyclist who practised a Standing Start. In her own words, "There where I was and where he stood was not even two meters. I must have come to a complete stop in an instant." [6] The immediate crash on the concrete floor caused several fractures but in particular severed her spinal cord at the seventh thoracic vertebrae and consequently caused paraplegia. The Dutch cyclist received psychological support. Thorwald Veneberg, official of the Dutch Cyclists Union had contacted Vogel's coach but the coach asked to wait.[7]
On 7 September 2018, as a result of this accident, Vogel has said that she "can't walk any more".[8][9]
In addition to her track cycling career, Vogel also worked as a part-time police officer.[3][4]
Major results
- 2008
- 2nd Sprint, Grand Prix de Vitesse de Saint Denis
- 2014
- UEC European Championships
- 1st
Keirin
- 2nd Team Sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 3rd Sprint
- 1st
- Cottbuser SprintCup
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st 500m Time Trial
- Memorial of Alexander Lesnikov
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st 500m Time Trial
- Cottbuser SprintCup (2)
- 1st Keirin
- 2nd Sprint
- GP von Deutschland im Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- Cottbuser Nächte
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Team Sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st Sprint, Track-Cycling Challenge Grenchen
- 2015
- Cottbuser SprintCup
- 1st Keirin
- 2nd Sprint
- GP von Deutschland im Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 3rd Team Sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- Internationale Radsport Meeting
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st 500m Time Trial
- 1st Keirin, Cottbuser Nächte
- UEC European Track Championships
- 2nd Team Sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 3rd Sprint
- 2nd Sprint, Cottbuser SprintCup
- 2nd Sprint, Dudenhofen
- 3rd Keirin, Öschelbronn
- 2016
- GP von Deutschland im Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Team Sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- Cottbuser SprintCup
- 1st Sprint
- 2nd Keirin
- 3rd 500m Time Trial
- 2017
- UCI World Track Championships
- 1st
Keirin
- 3rd Team Sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st
- 1st
Sprint, Round 1, (Pruszków) Track Cycling World Cup[10]
- UEC European Track Championships
- 1st
Keirin
- 1st
Sprint
- 2nd Team Sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st
- 1st Sprint, Öschelbronn
- 1st Keirin, Oberhausen
- 1st Sprint, Dudenhofen
- Cottbuser SprintCup
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Sprint GP von Deutschland im Sprint
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Keirin
- 1st
Sprint
- 1st
Team Sprint (with Pauline Grabosch)
- 3rd 500m Time Trial
- 1st
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kristina Vogel Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "Kristina Vogel: Olympic champion wants to 'give something back' to cycling after accident". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- ^ a b Williams, Ollie (1 November 2013). "Track Cycling World Cup: Winning Olympic gold and fighting crime". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
- ^ a b James, Ryland (10 June 2012). "From broken neck to breaking records for Vogel". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
- ^ Aubrey, Jane (4 April 2012). "Germany set new world record twice en-route to rainbow jersey". Cycling News.
- ^ "Kristina about her crash (in German)". Eurosport.
- ^ "NOS Dutch news". NOS Nieuws.
- ^ "Kristina Vogel 'can't walk any more' after injuring spine during crash". BBC News. 7 September 2018.
- ^ "German track cyclist Kristina Vogel a paraplegic after crash". MSN. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ "Australia's Scotson and Meyer take Madison title, Wild claims women's omnium in Pruszkow". cyclingnews.com. 4 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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External links
- Official website
- Kristina Vogel at Cycling Archives
- Living people
- 1990 births
- German female cyclists
- Kyrgyzstani people of German descent
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women)
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Germany
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- People from Chuy Region
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- German track cyclists