Jan van Eijden
 Jan van Eijden (2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jan van Eijden | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 August 1976 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | British Cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Coach | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jan van Eijden (born 10 August 1976 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German track cyclist born in Bad Neuenahr. He is a double World Champion in sprint and team sprint. He also won one world cup classic and four German national titles.
He retired from active racing in 2006 and worked as a sprint coach for the Great Britain Cycling Team until November 2021.[1][2]
Major results
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- 1994: 1st in UCI Track World Championships - 1 km time trial (juniors)
- 1995: 1st in UCI Track Cycling World Championships - team sprint
- 1996: 3rd in UCI Track World Championships - 1 km time trial
- 1997: 3rd in German national track cycling championships - sprint
- 1997: 2nd in UCI Track World Championships - team sprint
- 1999: 1st in German national track cycling championships - team sprint
- 1999: 3rd in German national track cycling championships - sprint
- 2000: 1st in UCI Track World Championships - sprint
- 2000: 1st in German national track cycling championships - sprint
- 2000: 1st in German national track cycling championships - team sprint
- 2000: 2nd in German national track cycling championships - keirin
- 2002: 3rd in German national track cycling championships - keirin
- 2003: 2nd in World cup classic Aguascalientes - keirin
- 2003: 3rd in World cup classic Cape Town - sprint
- 2003: 2nd in German national track cycling championships - team sprint
- 2003: 2nd in German national track cycling championships - sprint
- 2004: 2nd in World cup classic Aguascalientes - keirin
- 2004: 3rd in World cup classic Aguascalientes - team sprint
- 2004: 3rd in World cup classic Manchester - sprint
- 2004: 2nd in German national track cycling championships - keirin
- 2004: 1st in German national track cycling championships - sprint
- 2005: 1st in World cup classic Moscow - team sprint
- 2005: 2nd in German national track cycling championships - keirin
- 2005: 2nd in German national track cycling championships - team sprint
- 2006: 3rd in World cup classic Sydney - keirin
References
[edit]- ^ "German Know How Helps British Sprinters" Archived 2008-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, britishcycling.com
- ^ "Kaarle McCulloch appointed as Podium Women's Sprint Coach". British Cycling. 25 February 2022.
Categories:
- 1976 births
- Living people
- People from Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
- German male cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for Germany
- German cycling coaches
- Cyclists from Rhineland-Palatinate
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- German track cyclists
- German expatriate sportspeople in the United Kingdom
- Expatriate sports coaches