Miriam Welte

Miriam Welte is a German track cyclist born on 9 December 1986 in Kaiserslautern. She specialises in sprint events and team sprint competition. She achieved Olympic gold medals in team sprint at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (with Kristina Vogel) and won bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She won multiple world championship titles including the team sprint at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne, where she and Vogel also set a world record. She has been a UCI World Champion in the 500m time trial (2014 and 2018) and competed in numerous European Championships.