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Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung
Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung (from 2010 Equipe Noris Cycling) was the name of a Nuremberg women's professional cycling team with UCI Women's Team status up to and including the 2009 season. The name was given by the main sponsor '' Nürnberger Versicherung''. Due to its dominating position, also internationally, the team formed the skeleton of the German national team in women's road cycling. The best-known rider was former road world champion Regina Schleicher, who ended her career in 2009. In addition, German runner-up Trixi Worrack and Edita Pučinskaitė (Lithuania) were among the team's figureheads. The team's manager was Herbert Oppelt. The team's sporting management was taken over by ex-national coach Jochen Dornbusch (''JoDo'' for short) from Jens Zemke. Dornbusch left the team at the end of June 2010. He was succeeded by Dutchman Thijs Rondhuis. In August 2009, a new main sponsor for the team was found in the yacht company "Skyter". In early December 2009, the com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Bicycle Racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously (though sometimes with a Handicapping, handicap) and race to a set finish point; and time trials, where individual time trial, individual riders or team time trial, teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively. Professional racing originated in Western Europe, centred in France, Spain, Italy and the Low Countries. Since the mid-1980s, the sport has diversified, with races held at the professional, semi-professional and amateur levels, worldwide. The sport is governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). As w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Hohl
Jennifer Hohl (born 3 February 1986 in Marbach, St. Gallen) is a retired Swiss professional road cyclist. She represented Switzerland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and later earned three Swiss national championship titles in the women's elite road race (2008, 2009, and 2012). Before retiring to focus primarily on her family life and business career, Hohl rode for three seasons on the Bigla Cycling Team since 2006, followed by her short, annual stints on Germany's Noris Cycling and Italy's and . Hohl qualified for the Swiss squad in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics by receiving one of the nation's three available berths from the UCI World Cup. Passing through the 102.6-km mark, Hohl fell into the ground after crashing her bike in a heavy collision against a small group of riders, and subsequently, abandoned her race before reaching the 3:03-barrier. Career highlights ;2007 : 1st Overall, Tour de Berne, Bern (SUI) : 8th UCI European Road Championships (U23) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Liebig
Tina Liebig (born 28 April 1980 in Gera) is a German professional racing cyclist. Career wins ;1998 :UCI Road World Championships, junior road race ;2003 :Stage 5 Krasna Lipa Tour Féminine (CZE) ;2004 :General Classification Giro del Trentino Alto Adige - Südtirol (ITA) :: 1st: Stage 1 ;2005 :General Classification Krasna Lipa Tour Féminine (CZE) ;2006 (Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung) :7th World University Cycling Championship, time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ... ;2009 ( DSB Bank-LTO) External links * 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Gera German female cyclists German track cyclists Cyclists from Thuringia 21st-century German women {{Germany-cycling-bio-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tour De L'Aude Cycliste Féminin
The Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin was the longest running UCI event on the women's elite cycle racing calendar. It had been held annually in the Aude Aude (; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region and named after the river Aude (river), Aude. The departmental council also calls it "Ca ... region of south-central France since 1985 until its cancellation after the 2010 edition. The race began when Jean Thomas, who organized men's events, turned to a major women's tour. The initial race was four days long around one city. The race grew in length and prestige until it attracted many of the top riders in the world. By 2006, the race was 10 days long. Following Thomas' death, the race was organized by his daughter, Anne-Marie Thomas. However, after the 2010 race, a lack of sponsorship led to the race's cancellation. Leaders' jerseys Race leaders in 6 different categorie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Arndt
Judith Arndt (born 23 July 1976) is a retired German professional cyclist, who last rode for the GreenEDGE-AIS cycling team. She won the bronze medal in the 3000 m pursuit event at the 1996 Summer Olympics when she was 20. In 2004, she won the world road race championship and came second in the Olympic road race. Career Arndt won the national individual pursuit championship four times and Olympic bronze in the same competition. But a viral infection during the 2000 Summer Olympics – causing a disappointing outcome – marked the turning in her career. In two years, she finished third in the Grande Boucle (sometimes referred to as the "women's Tour de France)" in 2003, won the Tour de l'Aude twice (2002 and 2003), and added a silver medal in the road time trial at the 2003 world championship in Hamilton, Ontario. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece she won silver in the road race, and, two weeks later, became world road champion at Verona, Italy. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tour Of New Zealand
The Women's Tour of New Zealand is a stage race A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event. Usually, such a race consists of "ordinary" stages, but sometimes stages ... for elite women road cyclists held in New Zealand at the end of February or the beginning of March. It is rated as 2.2 on the UCI classification scheme. It was not held in 2013 or 2014, but returned in February 2015. Roll of honour Source: References External links * * {{Cycling archives race, 8409 Women's road bicycle races 2005 establishments in New Zealand Cycle races in New Zealand Recurring sporting events established in 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oenone Wood
Oenone Wood (born 24 September 1980 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) is a retired professional cycle sport, cyclist, who commenced her cycling career in 2001 at the age of 21. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She was a member of professional cycling Team Columbia Women (USA) and the Canberra Cycling Club, and formerly of the T-Mobile Professional Women's Cycling Team (GER) and Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung. She lives in Merewether, New South Wales, Merewether, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle. Oenone achieved success as a road bicycle racing, road cyclist in Australia, including the Bay Criterium Series, and the Geelong Tour. She had great success overseas, particularly winning stages of the Giro d'Italia Femminile (ITA) and the Points Classification for the Giro d'Italia Femminile in 2004 and 2005, as well winning the UCI Women's Road World Cup series in 2004 and 2005. In the Cycling at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Rossner
Petra Rossner (born 14 November 1966) is a German cyclist, who won the gold medal in 3 km pursuit track cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In the same event she won the 1991 World Championships and finished second in 1989. Competing in road bicycle racing, she won the World Cup in 2002. She finished second in 2004, and finished third in the 1988 Giro d'Italia Femminile. She is a seven-time winner of the Liberty Classic—winning the event in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004. Rossner retired after the 2004 season. Private life From 1996 on, she was living in Leipzig with her partner Judith Arndt Judith Arndt (born 23 July 1976) is a retired German professional sports, professional cycle sport, cyclist, who last rode for the GreenEDGE-AIS cycling team. She won the bronze medal in the Track cycling, 3000 m pursuit event at the 1996 S .... They have since split. References External linksPersonal Website 1966 births Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Pohl (cyclist)
Stephanie Gaumnitz (née Pohl; born 21 October 1987) is a German retired racing cyclist. She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. At the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships she won the gold medal in the points race. In September 2015 the announced that she would join them for the 2016 season. After two seasons she ended her career in September 2017. Major results ;2012 :1st Points Race, UEC European Track Championships ;2014 :2nd Points Race, UCI Track World Championships :3rd Omnium, Grand Prix of Poland ;2015 :1st Points Race, UCI Track World Championships :3rd Points Race, UEC European Track Championships :1st Overall Rás na mBan Rás na mBan is an international stage cycle road race for women in Ireland. It was first run in 2006 and has run annually since. The event began as a two-day race based in Dublin and became a three-day event in 2008 when it moved to a new base ... Tour of Ireland ;2016 :3rd Team Time Trial, UCI Road World Championships ;2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Gebhardt
Elke Gebhardt (born 22 July 1983) is a German former racing cyclist. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence. See also *2009 DSB Bank-LTO season *2013 Team Argos-Shimano season Thirteen or 13 may refer to: * 13 (number), the natural number following 12 and preceding 14 * One of the years 13 BC, AD 13, 1913, 2013 Music * 13AD (band), an Indian classic and hard rock band Albums * ''13'' (Black Sabbath album), 2013 * ... References External links * 1983 births Living people German female cyclists Sportspeople from Freiburg im Breisgau Cyclists from Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-cycling-bio-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Sandig
Madeleine Sandig (born 12 August 1983 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany) is a German road and track racing cyclist. Sandig won the under-23 individual time trial at the 2005 European Road Championships after finishing second in 2004. Palmarès ;2004 * 2nd, individual time trial 2004 European Road Championships ;2005 * 1st, individual time trial 2005 European Road Championships * 1st, stage 4b 2005 Holland Ladies Tour * 2nd, points race, Italian national championships (track) * 3rd, time trial, Italian national championships ;2006 ( Buitenpoort-Flexpoint Team) * 1st, stage 1 Tour de l'Aude * 1st, points race, Italian national championships (track) * 2nd, time trial, Italian national championships ;2009 * 1st, stage 2 Tour de l'Aude * 1st, individual pursuit, Italian national championships (track) ;2010 * 3rd, individual pursuit, Italian national championships (track) * 1st, points race, Italian national championships (track) * 3rd, team pursuit, 2010 European Track Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
