Miriam Welte


Miriam Welte 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
;2014
;2015
;2016
;2017