Kristina Vogel (born 10 November 1990) is a former German track cyclist. During her career, she won two gold medals and a bronze at the Olympic Games,[1] and became an eleven-time UCI World Champion.[2] She was paralysed following a crash in June 2018.[3]
Life and career
editVogel 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.[4] 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 recovered to compete 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.[5] 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.[6] Vogel and Welte went on to win the first ever Olympic gold medal in the women's team sprint later that year in London, benefiting from competitors being relegated in both the semifinal and final. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won another gold, in the women's sprint, and a bronze medal in the women's team sprint again with Miriam Welte.[1]
On 26 June 2018, in the Cottbus velodrome, Vogel collided at high speed with a Dutch junior cyclist who was practising a standing start.[7] The heavy impact on the concrete floor caused several fractures, severing her spinal cord at the seventh thoracic vertebrae and consequently caused paraplegia. Vogel's teammate Maximilian Levy was the first to come to her aid,[8] and following the accident, he and fellow cyclist Max Dörnbach, using the hashtag #staystrongkristina, went on to raise €119,752 for her recovery.[9] The Dutch cyclist was uninjured,[10] but Vogel was left paralysed.[11][12]
In addition to her track cycling career, Vogel was a part-time police officer before her accident.[4][5][11] In 2019, she entered politics, standing for election as a candidate for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany in Erfurt city council elections.[13]
Major results
edit- 2008
- UCI Juniors Track World Championships
- 1st
Keirin - 1st Sprint
- 1st 500m time trial
- 1st
- 2nd
Sprint, Grand Prix de Vitesse de Saint Denis
- 2010
- UEC European Track Championships
- 2nd
Sprint - 3rd
Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 2nd
- 2011
- 3rd Team sprint (with Miriam Welte), UEC European Track Championships
- 2012
- Olympic Games
- 1st
Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 3rd
Keirin
- 1st
- 2013
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 2nd
Sprint
- 1st
- UEC European Track Championships
- 1st
Sprint - 2nd Keirin
- 2nd Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st
- 2014
- UEC European Track Championships
- 1st Keirin
- 2nd Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 3rd Sprint
- 1st
- Cottbuser SprintCup
- 1st
Keirin - 1st Sprint
- 1st 500m Time Trial
- 1st
- Memorial of Alexander Lesnikov
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st 500m Time Trial
- 1st
- Cottbuser SprintCup (2)
- 1st Keirin
- 2nd Sprint
- 1st
- GP von Deutschland im Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st
- Cottbuser Nächte
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Team Sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st
- 1st Sprint, Track-Cycling Challenge Grenchen
- 2015
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Sprint
- 1st
- Cottbuser SprintCup
- 1st Keirin
- 2nd Sprint
- 1st
- GP von Deutschland im Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 3rd
Team Sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st
- Internationale Radsport Meeting
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st 500m Time Trial
- 1st
- 1st Keirin, Cottbuser Nächte
- UEC European Track Championships
- 2nd Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 3rd Sprint
- 2nd
- 2nd Sprint, Cottbuser SprintCup
- 2nd Sprint, Dudenhofen
- 3rd Keirin, Öschelbronn
- 2016
- Olympic Games
- 1st Sprint
- 3rd
Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Keirin
- 3rd Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 3rd Sprint
- 1st
- GP von Deutschland im Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Team Sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st
- Cottbuser SprintCup
- 1st Sprint
- 2nd Keirin
- 3rd 500m Time Trial
- 1st
- 2017
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 3rd Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st
- UEC European Track Championships
- 1st
Keirin - 1st Sprint
- 2nd Team sprint (with Miriam Welte)
- 1st
- 1st Sprint, Round 1, (Pruszków) Track Cycling World Cup[14]
- 1st Sprint, Öschelbronn
- 1st Keirin, Oberhausen
- 1st Sprint, Dudenhofen
- Cottbuser SprintCup
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st
- 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
edit- ^ a b 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 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "Track cycling: Kristina Vogel reviews 2017". 26 December 2017. Retrieved 11 November 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.
- ^ "VIDEO - Kristina Vogel nach Horror-Unfall: "Mich hätte es viel schlimmer treffen können"" [VIDEO - Kristina Vogel after horror accident: "It could have been much worse for me"]. Eurosport. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Kristina Vogel in stable condition but remains in intensive care". Cycling News. 30 June 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
- ^ "#staystrongkristina". 29 June 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
- ^ "NOS Dutch news". NOS Nieuws.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "Kristina Vogel: Paralyzed cycling star turns to politics". CNN. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ "Australia's Scotson and Meyer take Madison title, Wild claims women's omnium in Pruszkow". cyclingnews.com. 4 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
External links
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- Official website
- Kristina Vogel at Cycling Archives (archived)