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Marty Nothstein Personal information Full name Martin Wayne Nothstein Nickname The Blade Born February 10, 1971
United StatesHeight 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] Weight 96 kg (210 lb)[1] Team information Discipline Track & Road Role Rider Professional team(s) 2001
2002–2006Mercury Viatel
Navigators Insurance Cycling TeamMedal recordMen's Track cycling Competitor for the United StatesOlympic Games Gold 2000 Sydney 1000m Sprint (Scratch) Silver 1996 Atlanta 1000m Sprint (Scratch) Infobox last updated on
20 October 2009Martin "Marty" Wayne Nothstein (born February 10, 1971) is an American professional road bicycle racer and track cyclist. He is a 3-time world champion in track events and an Olympic gold and silver medalist.
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Biography
Early life
Nothstein was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, one of five children to Wayne Nothstein, owner of a local automotive business, Nothstein Motors. Nothstein's paternal great grandfather was an accomplished bicycle racer at the turn of the century, and bare-knuckle prizefighter. Nothstein is a 1989 graduate of Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania.[2]
Cycling career
Nothstein began cycling in 1987 and made his international debut in 1989, at the UCI Track Cycling World Cycling Championships in Lyon, France.
Nothstein won his first world championship medal in 1993, when he took the silver in the keirin. He became a double world champion in 1994, winning both sprint and keirin events at the 1994 World Championships. He did so whilst nursing a broken heel bone. Nothstein again rode with a fractured bone, this time a kneecap, as part of the U.S. team sprint squad who won the bronze medal at the 1995 World Championships.[3]
He won a Silver medal in the sprint at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he became the first American cyclist in 16 years to win an Olympic gold medal, when he took the victory in the sprint.
In March 2001, he turned professional (on the road) with the U.S. based Mercury Viatel team, before moving to the Navigators Insurance Cycling Team in 2002. He remained with Navigators for four years to the end of his career.
In 2004, Nothstein had success on the road as well as track, proving many people wrong; many had said that this wasn't possible for a sprint rider. In order to transfer to road riding, he had lost 30 pounds of body mass, compared to his weight at the 2000 Summer Olympics.[4]
He earned the nickname The Blade for his razor thin victory margins. He was also called this for his skill at cutting through a field of riders into first place.
Retirement
Nothstein retired from competitive cycling after the 2006 season, and now drives an NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car for Follow A Dream.
Nothstein won two races in the 2007 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series season; one at Bradenton Motorsports Park in Bradenton, Florida in the series’ season opener, the other in mid-July at Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois. He finished 11th in points in the 2007 NHRA Alcohol Funny Car season.[5]
Major achievements
- World Championships
- 3-Gold Medals – Keirin (1996), Sprint and Keirin (1994)
- 2-Silver Medals – Match Sprint (1996), Keirin (1993)
- 2-Bronze Medals – Keirin, (1997), Team Sprint (1995)
- U.S. National Championships
- 34-Gold Medals
- 1993
- 2nd Keirin, Track Cycling World Championships
- 1994
- 1st Keirin, Track Cycling World Championships
- 1st Sprint, Track Cycling World Championships
- 1995
- 1st Sprint, Pan American Games
- 1st Sprint, Round 6, Manchester, 1995 Track World Cup
- 2nd Keirin, Round 6, Manchester, 1995 Track World Cup
- 1996
- 1st Keirin, Track Cycling World Championships
- 2nd Sprint, Track Cycling World Championships
- 2nd Sprint, Olympic Games
- 1st Sprint, Round 1, Cali, 1996 Track World Cup
- 1st Keirin, Round 1, Cali, 1996 Track World Cup
- 1st Sprint, Round 2, Havanna, 1996 Track World Cup
- 1st Keirin, Round 2, Havanna, 1996 Track World Cup
- 1st Sprint, Round 4, Italy, 1996 Track World Cup
- 1st Keirin, Round 4, Italy, 1996 Track World Cup
- 1997
- 3rd Keirin, World Track Cycling Championships
- 1st Sprint, Round 1, Cali, 1997 Track World Cup
- 1st Keirin, Round 1, Cali, 1997 Track World Cup
- 1st Sprint, Round 2, Trexlertown, 1997 Track World Cup
- 2nd Keirin, Round 2, Trexlertown, 1997 Track World Cup
- 1st Sprint, Round 3, Fiorenzuola, 1997 Track World Cup
- 3rd Sprint, Round 4, Quatro Sant’Elana, 1997 Track World Cup
- 1st Keirin, Round 4, Quatro Sant’Elana, 1997 Track World Cup
- 1st Keirin, Round 6, Adelaide, 1997 Track World Cup
- 1998
- 2nd Sprint, Round 1, Cali, 1998 Track World Cup
- 3rd Keirin, Round 1, Cali, 1998 Track World Cup
- 2nd Keirin, Round 2, Victoria, 1998 Track World Cup
- 1999
- 1st Keirin, Pan American Games
- 1st Sprint, Pan American Games
- 1st Team Sprint, Pan American Games
- 1st Keirin, US National Track Championships
- 2000
- 1st Sprint, Olympic Games
- 1st Keirin, US National Track Championships
- 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 1st Team sprint, US National Track Championships
- 2001
- 2nd Kilo, Round 3, Italy, UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 3rd Keirin, Round 3, Italy, UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 3rd Keirin, Round 5, Malaysia, UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 3rd Scratch Race, Goodwill Games
- 1st Kilo, US National Track Championships
- 1st Sprint, US National Track Championships
- 1st Keirin, US National Track Championships
- 2002
- 1st Scratch Race, US National Track Championships
- 1st Brick City Classic (USA)
- 1st Six Days of Moscow (RUS)
- 2003
- 1st Keirin, US National Track Championships
- 1st Team sprint, US National Track Championships
- 1st New York City Cycling Championship (USA)
- 1st Air Products Finals (Track) (USA)
- 2004
- U.S. Olympic Track Cycling Team member
- 1st Keirin, US National Track Championships
- 1st Wells Fargo Twilight Criterium (USA)
- 1st Sprint, Tour of Connecticut (USA)
- 1st Commerce Bank Criterium (USA)
- 1st Paul Heller Memorial (USA)
- 1st Battle of Brilliance Criterium (USA)
- 1st Team Sprint, USA Track Cup
- 1st Keirin, USA Track Cup
- 2nd Stage 2, Nature Valley Grand Prix (USA)
- 3rd Tour de Gastown (CAN)
- 3rd Bike Jam 2004 (USA)
- 3rd Bristol Mountain Road Race (USA)
- 2005
- 1st Tour de Christiana (USA)
- 1st Silver Spring G.P. Criterium (USA)
- 1st Harrisburg Criterium (USA)
- 1st CTS Westfield Criterium (USA)
- 1st St. Valentine's Day Massacre (USA)
- 1st El Cajon Downtown G.P. (USA)
- 3rd D.A.R.E. Grand Prix (USA)
External links
- Official website
- Marty Nothstein profile at Cycling Archives
- Marty Nothstein Biography at Navigators
References
- ^ a b "Marty Nothstein". Sports Reference. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/no/marty-nothstein-1.html.
- ^ "Marty Nothstein biography". USA Cycling. http://www.usacycling.org/bios/user/bio.php?id=81.
- ^ |Mike Kallal (2000). "Cyclingnews talks with Marty Nothstein". Cycling News. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/interviews/nothstein012.shtml.
- ^ "Olympic Champion, Marty Nothstein Interview". British Cycling. April 2004. http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/archive/news/2004/04_april/03_manchester_nothstein.shtml.
- ^ Olympic Gold Medalist Marty Nothstein to Drive Follow A Dream/Permatex/Wynn's NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car
Categories:- 1971 births
- Living people
- Olympic cyclists of the United States
- Cyclists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Emmaus High School alumni
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- People from Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- Track cyclists
- Olympic medalists in cycling
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