[5] At the initiative of the National Paralympic Committee Germany, Kruse began preparing in 2013 for the 1000-metre time trial at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro together with multiple cycling world champion and Olympic gold medalist Stefan Nimke as a pilot on the tandem.

The following year, at the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Montichiari, Italy, Kruse and Nimke achieved a new personal best of 1:02.449 minutes and finished in fourth place.

This makes Nimke the first German athlete to win medals at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

[9] In 2019, Kruse competed with his new pilot Robert Förstemann in the Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn.

[10] At the 2020 Track World Championships in Milton, Ontario, Canada, the two riders won bronze in the time trial.