Success for Jena schools in the Thuringian school cycling competition

Three Jena schools are among the nine winners of this year's Thuringian school cycling competition. They were presented with their awards on Friday by State Secretary Prof. Dr. Barbara Schönig from the Thuringian Ministry for Infrastructure and Agriculture in the presence of Jena's Mayor and Head of the Department for Urban Development and the Environment Christian Gerlitz in Erfurt.

The participants from Angergymnasium Jena covered a total of 51,051.0 kilometers by bike during the competition period. This secured them first place in the category "School with the most kilometers cycled overall", followed by Otto-Schott-Gymnasium Jena with 36,764.4 kilometers. The Staatliche Gemeinschaftsschule Kulturanum Jena took third place in the category "School with the most bicycle kilometers per participating person" with an average of 241.1 km.

In total, more than 100 Thuringian schools took part in the competition from September 2 to 22, 2023 and cycled more than 715,000 kilometers. This means they circumnavigated the globe almost 18 times.

Overview of the winners

Category "School with the most bicycle kilometers (absolute)"
1st Angergymnasium Jena (51,051.0 km)
2nd Otto-Schott-Gymnasium Jena (36,764.4 km)
3rd Regelschule "Am Schloss Neideck" Arnstadt (24,776.5 km)

Category: "School with the most bicycle kilometers per participating person (per capita average) with at least 20 team members"
1st Pierre-de-Coubertin Gymnasium Erfurt (440.6 km/person)
2nd State Vocational Training Center "Janusz Korczak" Weimar (265.1 km/person)
3rd Staatliche Gemeinschaftsschule Kulturanum Jena (241.1 km/person)

Category: "School with the most active participants (percentage)"
1st Plaue elementary school, Ilm district (148.8%)
2nd Johannesschule Saalfeld (126.2%)
3. free all-day elementary school Anna Amalia Weimar (58.8%)
* Teachers, parents etc. could also take part as school cyclists. However, the reference value is the number of pupils. This can result in a value > 100 %.

School cycling competition

In the school cycling competition, pupils, teachers, staff and parents were encouraged to cycle as many kilometers as possible. The kilometers collected in the school cycling competition were also counted in the city cycling competition.

Mitglieder des Angergymnasiums mit Staatssekretärin Prof. Schönig (2. v. l.) und Bürgermeister Gelitz (r.),

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Mitglieder des Otto-Schott-Gymnasiums mit Staatssekretärin Prof. Schönig (l.) und Bürgermeister Gerlitz (r.)

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Mitglieder der Gemeinschaftsschule Kulturanum mit Staatssekretärin Prof. Schönig (l.) und Bürgermeister Gerlitz (2. v. r.)

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