Miriam Welte

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

Career 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.

Major results

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