Claudia Lichtenberg (née Häusler; born 17 November 1985 in

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) is a

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former professional

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, who now works as a coach for German amateur team RSV Irschenberg. Born in

, Lichtenberg won the Tour de l'Aude in 2009, a race which, at the time, was called the "women's

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

", and also the

Giro d'Italia Femminile The is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race. It was rebranded from 2013-2020 as the Giro Rosa, having been branded the Giro Donne until 2012 and again in 2021. It has been considered the most prestigious stage race in women's ...

. She competed for Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics where she finished in 31st place in the women's road race. On the first day of the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Lichtenberg announced her retirement from professional road racing at the end of the 2017 season written in a rider blog.

Personal life

She married German former professional cyclist Christian Lichtenberg in mid-2014 and began racing under her married name.

Major results

Source:Profile
at ''Cycling Archives'' ;2005 : 1st Young rider classification,

Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol was a women's cycle race Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racin ...

: 6th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini ; 2006 : 1st MaillotAlemania

Road race, National Road Championships : 4th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini : 6th Overall

: 8th Overall

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 department in Southern France, located in the Occitanie region and nam ...

: 9th

Sparkassen Giro The Sparkassen Giro Bochum is a road bicycle race which is annually held for both men's and women's around an urban circuit in the German city of Bochum, Germany. Since 2005 the men's race is part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Ci ...

;2007 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAlemania

Mountain race ::2nd Road race : 1st Mountains classification, Tour du Grand Montréal : 4th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 5th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini : 10th

Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal The Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal ( en, Women's Cycling World Cup of Montreal, or simply Montreal World Cup) was an elite women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually between 1998 and 2009 in Montréal, Quebec, Cana ...

;2008 : 1st Großer Volvo Preis Villingen-Schwenningen : 1st Allgäuer Straßenpreis : 3rd Overall

: 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 6 : 7th Overall

::1st Young rider classification : 7th Overall Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira ; 2009 : 1st Jersey pink

Overall

::1st Stage 7 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: 1st Rund um Schönaich : 1st Allgäuer Straßenpreis : 2nd Overall Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira : 3rd

La Flèche Wallonne Féminine La Flèche Wallonne Féminine is a professional women's bicycle road race held each year in Wallonia, Belgium, in April. It is part of the UCI Women's World Tour, cycling's season-long competition of top-tier races, in which it is the third-old ...

: 6th Overall

;2010 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira ::1st Mountains classification : 3rd Overall

: 4th Overall

::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 10th Valkenburg Hills Classic ;2011 : 2nd Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini : 5th Overall

Trophée d'Or Féminin Trophée d'Or Féminin was a women's Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a sub ...

: 7th Overall

Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and larg ...

;2012 : 1st Rund um Schönaich : 1st Allgäuer Straßenpreis : 1st Max Ernst Gedächtnisrennen : 2nd

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: 6th Overall The Exergy Tour ::1st Stage 4 : 8th Overall

: 10th Overall

Emakumeen Euskal Bira The Emakumeen Euskal Bira was a women's cycling race held in the Basque Country, Spain. It was held annually from 1988 to 2019, starting out as a two-stage race and building up to five stages in 2007. One of these stages was always a double stag ...

;2013 : 1st Jersey pink

Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Joe Martin Stage Race Joe Martin Stage Race is a road cycling stage race held annually in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is part of the UCI America Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the ...

::1st

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: 1st Stage 6

North Star Grand Prix The North Star Grand Prix is a men's and women's road bicycle racing stage race held each June in Minnesota, United States, as part of the North Star Bicycle Festival. An event was added in North Mankato in 2016. The North Star Grand Prix is on ...

: 2nd Overall

Cascade Cycling Classic The Cascade Cycling Classic was the longest running elite road bicycle racing stage race in the United States (1980–2019), with 2018 being the only year the race was not held. The race took place in the Central Oregon region and was based in ...

::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Overall

: 3rd Philadelphia Cycling Classic : 5th Overall

Holland Ladies Tour The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons ...

: 6th

Chrono Gatineau Chrono Gatineau is an elite women's professional one-day time trial held in Canada and is currently rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 1.1 race. In the same week, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau Grand Prix cycliste de Gat ...

: 8th

Le Samyn des Dames Le Samyn is an annual single-day road bicycle race in Belgium, held usually in late February or early March. The event was created in 1968 as ''Grand Prix de Fayt-le-Franc'', named after the former municipality where it started and finished. In 1 ...

;

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: 1st

Overall

La Route de France The Route de France Féminine is a women's cycle race. First held in 2006, it was rated 2.2 by the UCI for the 2006 and 2007 edition, and 2.1 since. The race was cancelled in 2011, but returned the next year. With the ending of the Grande Bouc ...

::1st Stage 1 : 4th Overall

: 5th Overall

: 6th Overall

: 9th

;2015 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall

: 5th GP de Plouay ;2016 : 2nd Overall

: 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 5 : 4th Overall

: 6th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs : 7th Overall

: 8th Strade Bianche Women : 9th

Tour of Flanders for Women The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), formerly the Tour of Flanders for Women ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen voor Vrouwen), is an annual road bicycle racing event in Flanders, Belgium, held in early April. It is held on the same day as t ...

: 10th Overall

Auensteiner–Radsporttage Auensteiner–Radsporttage was a women's cycle race that took place in Germany, and was previously rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale The ''Union Cycliste Internationale'' (UCI; ; en, International Cycling Union) is the world gover ...

;2017 : 8th Overall

Setmana Ciclista Valenciana The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana is an annual professional road bicycle race Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, i ...

: 9th Overall

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