René Wolff (born 4 April 1978) is an Olympic and world champion
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
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
.
Wolff specializes in the sprint, team sprint and keirin events and teamed up with multiple Olympic champion
Jens Fiedler and
Stefan Nimke
Stefan Nimke (born 1 March 1978 in Hagenow, Bezirk Schwerin) is an Olympic and world champion track cyclist from Germany.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's 1 km time trial, and was part of the German men's tea ...
to win the gold medal in the
team sprint
The team sprint (also sometimes known as the Olympic sprint) is a track cycling event. Despite its name, it is not a conventional cycling sprint event – it is a three-rider team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome. The riders use a ...
event at the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
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Since 2010 René Wolff is the national coach of the Dutch track cycling team.
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Olympic achievements
1978 births
Living people
German male cyclists
Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Germany
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Cyclists from Erfurt
Olympic gold medalists in cycling
German racing drivers
ADAC GT Masters drivers
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
German track cyclists
Sportspeople from Bezirk Erfurt
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Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers
21st-century German sportsmen
Racing drivers from Thuringia
Olympic bronze medalists in cycling