The 2011 season was the tenth for the HTC–Highroad Women cycling team, which began as the T-Mobile team in 2003. The main new riders for the team were the Americans

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and Amanda Miller and the German time trial champion

Charlotte Becker Charlotte Becker (born 19 May 1983 in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's road race, but finish ...

. In January,

Carla Swart Carla Swart (26 November 1987 – 19 January 2011) was a South African cyclist who won nineteen individual and team cycling titles. She was a professional cyclist, riding for HTC–Highroad Women in 2011. Swart moved to the United States in ...

died whilst training after being hit by a truck. After winning a stage,

Ellen van Dijk Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time ...

won the

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which was the 400th victory for the team (men's and women's) since 2008.

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won the fifth round in the Women's World Cup and the team won the seventh round, the Open de Suède Vårgårda team time trial. The team finished second overall in the World Cup.

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finished fourth in the individual standings and Teutenberg fifth. At the end of the season Arndt took the third place in the

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, Teutenberg fourth and the team ended in second place in the team classification.

Roster

;Riders who joined the team for the 2011 season ;Riders who left the team during or after the 2010 season

Season

February

The season started for the team with the

in February. In stage 2,

was part of the front group and took home the stage victory by winning the sprint. The day afterwards she defended successfully her leading position in the general classification and won the points classification as well. Van Dijk dedicated her victories to

who died whilst training after being hit by a truck a few weeks earlier. The prize money she earned in Qatar was sent to her family. Van Dijk's victory was the 400th victory for the team (men's and women's) since 2008.

March–July

End of July – August

In late July the team won the world cup team time trial, the

2011 Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT The 2011 Open de Suède Vårgårda – team time trial was the 4th team time trial running on the Open de Suède Vårgårda Open de Suède Vårgårda is an elite professional women's road bicycle event held annually in the Vårgårda Municipa ...

and was over a minute faster than Team AA Drink. The team consisted of:

and

. The day afterwards was the World Cup road race in Sweden, the

2011 Open de Suède Vårgårda The 2011 Open de Suède Vårgårda was the 6th road race running on the Open de Suède Vårgårda. It was held on 31 July 2011 over a distance of and was the eight race of the 2011 UCI Women's Road World Cup season. The race was won by Annemiek ...

won the sprint of the peloton and finished second behind

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, who had a small gap with the bunch. Teutenberg finished fourth. Teutenberg won the first stage of the

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by winning the sprint and the team won the team time trial afterwards. Becker won the third stage. The leaders jersey was lost to

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after the fourth stage. In the fifth stage Teutenberg won the bunch sprint behind a breakaway of four riders. In the last stage Becker finished fourth but did not win enough time to win the overall classification and finished second.

September

At the Profile Ladies Tour,

finished second in the first stage. The day afterwards

won for the third consecutive year the time trial stage of this tour. At the same time the

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took place.

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won the prologue and the day afterwards the time trial as well. She lost however thirteen minutes on

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in the thirds stage. Evelyn Stevens won stage 4 with over a four minutes lead over teammate Amanda Miller. Fahlin won the two stages afterwards. After finishing again second in the time trial, Miller finished fourth in the general classification. In preparation for the time trial world championships, Arndt won the

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just ahead of

. At the Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile the team won once again the team time trial. Arndt won the sprint of the second stage and took the leaders jersey. The stage afterwards the team provided Arndt on the final climb with a train so she could also win that stage. After Teutenberg won the stage afterwards and Arndt the time trial the next morning the team booked five consecutive victories. In the fourth stage where Teutenberg abandoned,

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took the lead. In the fifth stage also Teutenberg abandoned. In the last stage

won the stage by winning the bunch sprint.

End of September: UCI Road World Championships

won, at the age of 35, the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships.

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won the silver medal,

finished third.

won bronze in the road race and

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finished sixth.

October – December

To the end of the road cycling season,

won the

Chrono des Nations Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendée is a single-day individual time trial road bicycle race held annually in October in Les Herbiers, Vendée, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI E ...

in October. At the

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in December,

won two national titles. She won the

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as well as the

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Results

Season victories

Results in major races

Single day races

finished 4th in the final classification and

Ina-Yoko Teutenberg : Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (born 28 October 1974) is a German former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2000 and 2013 for the Red Bull Frankfurt, Saturn Cycling Team and teams. She took over 200 wins during her career, including ...

5th. The team finished 2nd in the teams standing.

Grand Tours

UCI World Ranking

The team finished second in the UCI ranking for teams.

References

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