Marty Nothstein

Marty Nothstein

Personal information
Full name	Martin Wayne Nothstein
Nickname	The Blade
Born	February 10, 1971 (1971-02-10) (age 41)  United States
Height	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 2002–2006	Mercury Viatel Navigators Insurance Cycling Team
Medal record Men's Track cycling Competitor for the  United States Olympic Games Gold 2000 Sydney 1000m Sprint (Scratch) Silver 1996 Atlanta 1000m Sprint (Scratch)
Infobox last updated on 20 October 2009

Martin "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.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Cycling career 1.3 Retirement 2 Major achievements 3 External links 4 References

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 21st 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

External links

• Official website
• Marty Nothstein profile at Cycling Archives
• Marty Nothstein Biography at Navigators

References

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