Marty Nothstein
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| Full name | Martin Wayne Nothstein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | The Blade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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February 10, 1971 Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track & Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2001 | Mercury Viatel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2006 | Navigators Insurance Cycling Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Martin "Marty" Wayne Nothstein (born February 10, 1971) is an American professional road bicycle racer and track cyclist. He is a 3-time world champion in track events and an Olympic gold and silver medalist.
Nothstein was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, one of five children to Wayne Nothstein, owner of a local automotive business, Nothstein Motors. Nothstein's paternal great grandfather was an accomplished bicycle racer at the turn of the 21st century, and bare-knuckle prizefighter. Nothstein is a 1989 graduate of Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
Nothstein began cycling in 1987 and made his international debut in 1989, at the UCI Track Cycling World Cycling Championships in Lyon, France.
Nothstein won his first world championship medal in 1993, when he took the silver in the keirin. He became a double world champion in 1994, winning both sprint and keirin events at the 1994 World Championships. He did so while nursing a broken heel bone. Nothstein again rode with a fractured bone, this time a kneecap, as part of the U.S. team sprint squad that won the bronze medal at the 1995 World Championships.
He won a Silver medal in the sprint at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he became the first American cyclist in 16 years to win an Olympic gold medal, when he took the victory in the sprint.
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