Miriam Welte

Miriam Welte

Personal information
Born	(1986-12-09) 9 December 1986 (age 30) Kaiserslautern, West Germany
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Medal record 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 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 European Championships 2013 Apeldoorn Team sprint

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

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.

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

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

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.

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