Maik Landsmann (born 25 October 1967) is a retired

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

from

East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

, who represented his native country at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe ...

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. There he won the gold medal in the men's team time trial (100 km), alongside

Uwe Ampler Uwe Ampler (born 11 October 1964) is a retired track and road cyclist who competed for East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the gold medal in the men's team time trial, alongside Jan Schur, Mario Kumm ...

, Jan Schur and

Mario Kummer Mario Kummer (born 6 May 1962) is a retired track and road racing cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the gold medal in the men's team time trial, alongsi ...

. A year later he won the world title in the same event.

Major results

;1988 :1st Gold medal olympic

Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...

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(with

and Jan Schur)

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* 1967 births Living people Cyclists from Erfurt Sportspeople from Bezirk Erfurt East German male cyclists East German track cyclists Olympic cyclists for East Germany Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics {{Germany-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub