Marty Nothstein

Marty Nothstein

Personal information
Full name	Martin Wayne Nothstein
Nickname	The Blade
Born	(1971-02-10) February 10, 1971 Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight	96 kg (212 lb)[1]
Team information
Discipline	Track & Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2001	Mercury Viatel
2002–2006	Navigators Insurance Cycling Team
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Sprint 1996 Atlanta Sprint World Championships 1996 Manchester Keirin 1996 Manchester Sprint 1995 Bogota Team sprint
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.

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 while 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 that 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 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,^[5] 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.^[6]

As of 2015, Nothstein was living in Lowhill Township, Pennsylvania, and working as executive director of the Valley Preferred Cycling Center. In February 2015, Nothstein announced he was running as a Republican for the Board of Commissioners of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania,^[5] marking his first foray into politics. In May, Nothstein received the highest amount of votes of any Republican in the primary election,^[7][8] collecting 8,260 votes. That was 104 votes higher than the next-highest Republican vote-getter, and the second-most overall of any candidate, behind Democratic candidate Dan Hartzell's 8,324 votes.^[8] Nothstein ran on a slate with Republican incumbents Brad Osborne, Vic Mazziotti, and Amanda Holt, who ran on a platform of continuing what they called a successful record of cutting taxes and creating a more efficient government in the Republican-led board of commissioners.^[9]

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

References

External links

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

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's sprint
1895: Robert Protin 1896: Paul Bourillon 1897: Willi Arend 1898: Georges Banker 1899: Marshall Taylor 1900: Edmond Jacquelin 1901–03: Thorvald Ellegaard 1904: Iver Lawson 1905: Gabriel Poulain 1906: Thorvald Ellegaard 1907: Emile Friol 1908: Thorvald Ellegaard 1909: Victor Dupre 1910: Emile Friol 1911: Thorvald Ellegaard 1912: Frank Louis Kramer 1913: Walter Rütt 1920: Bob Spears 1921–24: Piet Moeskops 1925: Ernst Kaufmann 1926: Piet Moeskops 1927–30: Lucien Michard 1931: Willy Hansen 1932–37: Jef Scherens 1938: Arie van Vliet 1939: Medal not awarded 1946: Jan Derksen 1947: Jef Scherens 1948: Arie van Vliet 1949–51: Reg Harris 1952: Oscar Plattner 1953: Arie van Vliet 1954: Reg Harris 1955–56: Antonio Maspes 1957: Jan Derksen 1958: Michel Rousseau 1959–62: Antonio Maspes 1963: Sante Gaiardoni 1964: Antonio Maspes 1965–66: Giuseppe Beghetto 1967: Patrick Sercu 1968: Giuseppe Beghetto 1969: Patrick Sercu 1970: Gordon Johnson 1971: Leijn Loevesijn 1972–73: Robert Van Lancker 1974: Peder Pedersen 1975–76: John Nicholson 1977–86: Koichi Nakano 1987: Nobuyuki Tawara 1988: Stephen Pate 1989: Claudio Golinelli 1990: Michael Hübner 1991: Carey Hall Medal not awarded 1992: Michael Hübner 1993: Gary Neiwand 1994: Marty Nothstein 1995: Darryn Hill 1996–98: Florian Rousseau 1999: Laurent Gané 2000: Jan van Eijden 2001: Arnaud Tournant 2002: Sean Eadie 2003: Laurent Gané 2004: Theo Bos 2005: René Wolff 2006–07: Theo Bos 2008: Chris Hoy 2009–10: Grégory Baugé 2011: Jason Kenny 2012: Grégory Baugé 2013: Stefan Bötticher 2014: François Pervis 2015: Grégory Baugé 2016: Jason Kenny

UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's keirin
1980–81: Danny Clark 1982: Gordon Singleton 1983: Urs Freuler 1984: Robert Dill-Bundi 1985: Urs Freuler 1986: Michel Vaarten 1987: Harumi Honda 1988–89: Claudio Golinelli 1990–92: Michael Hübner 1993: Gary Neiwand 1994: Marty Nothstein 1995: Frédéric Magné 1996: Marty Nothstein 1997: Frédéric Magné 1998–99: Jens Fiedler 2000: Frédéric Magné 2001: Ryan Bayley 2002: Jobie Dajka 2003: Laurent Gané 2004: Jamie Staff 2005: Teun Mulder 2006: Theo Bos 2007–08: Chris Hoy 2009: Maximilian Levy 2010: Chris Hoy 2011: Shane Perkins 2012: Chris Hoy 2013: Jason Kenny 2014–15: François Pervis 2016: Joachim Eilers