Awarding the city cycling winners
Photo opportunity: 11 November, 9 a.m., Pentagon 3, Brückenstraße 17
On Friday, 11 November at 9 am, Mayor Knut Kunze will award the winners of the City Cycling campaign during the annual event of AG Gesundes Chemnitz at Pentagon 3, Brückenstraße 17.
Media representatives are invited to the photo opportunity. Note: Photo permission for the young participants must be requested from the respective educators or teachers on site.
The 2022 winners are:
| Category | Team | Kilometres |
|---|---|---|
| Most active cyclist (person with the most kilometres cycled) | Stefanie Zelt Team Lauf-KulTour e. V. | 1.110 |
| Most active cyclist (people with the most kilometres cycled) | Kilian Tasche Team Lauf-KulTour e. V. | 2.788 |
| Team with the most active cyclists (Team with the most kilometres cycled per person) | Lauf-KulTour e. V. | 940 |
| Team with the most total kilometres cycled | SVC2bike | 25.001 |
| Most active daycare centre by bike | Wiesenstraße daycare centre | 2.411 |
| Most active cycling school | Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium | 19.884 |
The three first-placed daycare centres will receive new bicycle racks, which will be installed by the civil engineering department this year. The top three schools will receive prize money of 250, 150 and 100 euros respectively. A tree in Chemnitz was dedicated to all prize winners. The trees were planted along Heinrich-Zille-Straße by the Parks Department in spring 2022.
2,181 Chemnitz residents took part in city cycling this year. A total of 337,978 kilometres were cycled during the three weeks of the campaign, saving 52 tonnes of CO2 compared to driving a car.
The City Cycling campaign created by Climate Alliance sensitises citizens to the use of bicycles in everyday life and brings the topics of bicycle use and bicycle traffic planning more strongly into the municipal parliaments. The importance of cycling for climate protection and quality of life as well as people's own mobility behaviour is to be brought to the fore. Since the start of the campaign in 2008, the number of participating municipalities has risen from 23 at the beginning to more than 2500 today.
The date for the next City Cycling campaign has already been set: 5 to 25 September 2023.
Further information can be found at
www.chemnitz.de/stadtradeln