Carsten Bergemann

German track cyclist Carsten Bergemann teamed up with René Wolff and Jens Fiedler at the 2003 World Championships in the team sprint event and the trio won the gold medal. The following year Bergemann participated at the 2004 Athens Olympics and finished eighth in the track time trial, and at Beijing 2008 he came fifth in the keirin event. Bergemann was an alternate for the Olympic-sprint race in 2004 and sometimes shown as a fourth team member but didn’t compete.

Bergemann had won the team sprint bronze medal at the 2002 World Championships with Fiedler and Sören Lausberg. He also won team sprint World Cup events at Moskva (Moscow) in 2005 and 2006, and Cali in 2008, and won the keirin at Melbourne in 2009. Bergemann won the European team sprint title with Matthias John and Stefan Nimke in 2001 and retained the title the following year with John and Lausberg.

Domestically, Bergemann won the national team sprint title in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011. He also won the 1,000 metres track time trial in 2004-05, and the sprint title in 2009. He later turned to coaching and oversaw the the U23 national team.