Carsten Wolf

Carsten Wolf is an East German racing cyclist, who competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He won the silver medal at the Olympic games in Seoul 1988.

Career

Wolf started cycling at an early age becoming the Individual pursuit World Junior Track Cycling Championships in 1982 at age 18. He also earned a silver medal in the Team pursuit during the same championships.
In 1983 he won his first victory on the road, the prologue of the Olympia's Tour.
In the 1988 Summer Olympics Wolf rode in the 4000m team pursuit. East Germany qualified as fourth fastest and after beating Australia in the playoffs they faced the Soviet Union in the final. They lost by less than one second to the Soviet Union.
Wolf spent two years at top level from 1991 to 1992. He ended up leaving the team as Wolf wanted to focus more on the Six Day Series.

Major results

Sources:

Track

;1981
;1982
;1983
;1987
;1988
;1989

Six-Days Series

;1994
;1996

Road

;1983
;1987
;1988
;1989
;1990
;1991
;1996