Ina Teutenberg 2008 Geelong Tour Stage1 1

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 The Saturn Cycling Team was an American cycling team that existed from 1992 to 2003. It was managed by Tom Schuler and sponsored by the Saturn Corporation. Victories ;1995 : United States National Road Race Championships, Norman Alvis : United ...

and teams. She took over 200 wins during her career, including 11 stages of the Giro Rosa, the 2009 Tour of Flanders, and being part of the team that won the World Team Time Trial Championship in 2012. She now works as a directeur sportif for

UCI Women's Team A UCI Women's Team is a women's road bicycle team sanctioned by the International Cycling Union ( UCI). These teams compete in the major women's bicycle races including the UCI Women's Road World Cup and the team time trial for trade teams at the ...

Career

Born in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...

, West Germany, Teutenberg began racing bicycles at age 6, alongside her two brothers

Sven Teutenberg Sven Teutenberg (born August 18, 1972, in Düsseldorf) is a German cyclist, who currently rides for German amateur team SG Kaarst. Teutenberg turned pro in 1993 with . He achieved a number of victories, especially in smaller races. Teutenberg is ...

and Lars Teutenberg. She competed for Germany at the

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and 2012 Summer Olympics. Teutenberg retired from competition in 2013, after suffering concussion in a serious accident that year. After her retirement, she worked with

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on a temporary basis, directing their junior men's and women's programmes in Europe, before co-directing 's women's team. In August 2018,

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announced that Teutenberg would be appointed as head director of their new women's team, , for its debut in 2019. On 30 May 2019 it was announced that Teutenberg would become the Women's Road Sports Director for the World Championships and Olympic Games, starting her role at the World Championships that year.

Personal life

She was one of 23 LGBT Olympians at the London Games.

Major results

;1993 :1st MaillotAlemania

Points race, National Track Championships ;1996 :1st Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen ;1997 :1st MaillotAlemania

Points race, National Track Championships ;1998 :1st Stage 4 RaboSter Zeeuwsche Eilanden :1st Stage 4

Women's Challenge The Women's Challenge bicycle race (originally known as the Ore-Ida Women's Challenge as the lead sponsor was the Ore-Ida brand of frozen potato products) was held annually in the western United States in southern Idaho, beginning in 1984 until i ...

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 ...

::1st Stages 4 & 5 ;1999 :

::1st Stages 7 & 12 ;2000 :

::1st Stages 8 & 9 :2nd Overall

::1st Stage 5a :2nd Primavera Rosa (ITA) (World Cup) ;2001 :1st Stage 3 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen :

::1st Stages 10 & 13 :1st Stage 4

Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI Americ ...

:1st Clarendon Cup ;2002 :1st Stage 3

:1st Stage 5 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen : Tour de l'Aude ::1st Stages 1, 3, 4 & 5b :1st Clarendon Cup ;2003 : Tour de l'Aude ::1st Stages 4b & 9 :1st Stage 4 Solano Bicycle Classic :

Redlands Bicycle Classic The Redlands Bicycle Classic is a cycling stage race located in Redlands, California, United States that has been held since 1985. It consists of three road races, an individual time trial and a criterium A criterium, or crit, is a bike race ...

::1st Stages 1 & 4 :1st Stage 4

Tour de Toona The International Tour de Toona was a stage bicycle race held in Central Pennsylvania in July from 1987 until 2011. The event became the largest pro-am cycling event in North America and had stages spanning Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Somerset C ...

::1st Stages 2 & 7 :1st Stage 5

;2005 : Valley of the Sun Stage Race ::1st Stages 2 & 3 :

::1st Stages 2 & 3 :1st Stage 3

:1st Richmond Cycling Classic :1st

Liberty Classic The Liberty Classic was an annual women's bicycle race held from 1994 to 2012, simultaneously with the Philadelphia International Championship. The 57.6 mile race consisted of four laps of a 14.4 mile circuit through Philadelphia with 5 climbs up t ...

::1st Stages 2 & 5 :1st Stage 4a

;2006 :2nd Overall

UCI Women's Road World Cup The UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup was a season-long road bicycle competition for women organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale between 1998–2015. This competition consisted of a series (which has varied from 6 to 12 events) of rac ...

:1st Geelong World Cup :1st Stage 4 Geelong Women's Tour : Tour of New Zealand ::1st Stages 2 & 3 :1st Stage 1 Damesronde van Drenthe : Tour de l'Aude ::1st Stages 5 & 10 :1st Stage 4 Krasna Lipa Tour Feminine :1st

Lowland International Rotterdam Tour The Rotterdam Tour, in its first two editions called the Tour Beneden-Maas, was an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held between 1998 and 2006 in Rotterdam, Netherlands as part of the UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup The ...

::1st Stages 2 & 3 :1st Stage 4b Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini :1st Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling :1st Reading Classic ;2007 : Geelong Women's Tour ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : Tour of New Zealand ::1st Stages 1 & 6 :1st Stage 2

:1st Stage 9 Tour de l'Aude :Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling ::1st Commerce Bank

Lancaster Classic The Tom Bamford Lancaster Classic was a professional road bicycle race held in late May or early June between 1992 and 2007 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. With the exception of the first race, which was , the Lancaster Classic covered about . D ...

::1st Commerce Bank Reading Classic ::1st Commerce Bank

Philadelphia :1st Stage 3 RaboSter Zeeuwsche Eilanden :

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 ...

::1st Stages 4 & 7 :

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 ...

::1st Stages 4 & 5 :3rd 2007 Novilon Internationale Damesronde van Drenthe ;2008 :1st Stage 6 Tour of New Zealand :1st Central Valley Classic :1st

Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo Ronde van Drenthe ( en, Tour of Drenthe) is an elite List of men's road bicycle races, men's and List of women's road bicycle races, women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drenthe, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Ro ...

:1st Stage 4 Gracia-Orlová : Tour de l'Aude ::1st Stages 5 & 8 :1st Commerce Bank Allentown Classic :1st Commerce Bank Reading Classic :1st Commerce Bank

Philadelphia :1st Overall RaboSter Zeeuwsche Eilanden ::1st Stages 2 & 3 :

Giro Donne 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 r ...

::1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 8 :

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 Prologue & Stage 1 :2nd Overall

::1st Stages 1, 4 & 6 :

Giro della Toscana The Giro di Toscana is a road bicycle race held annually in Tuscany, Italy. From 2005 to 2014, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was not held in 2015. On 4 April 2016 it was announced that the race will ...

::1st Stages 1, 2b & 4 :1st Central Valley Classic 2008 :1st Visalia 2008 ; 2009 :1st MaillotAlemania

Road race, National Road Championships :1st Merced Criterium, California :1st Merced Road Race, California :1st Overall San Dimas Stage Race ::1st Stages 2 & 3 :1st Overall Redlands Classic ::1st Stages 1 & 2 :1st Ronde Van Vlaanderen World Cup :1st Drenthe 8 Van Dwingeloo :1st

Ronde van Gelderland The Ronde van Gelderland ( en, Tour of Gelderland) was an elite women's road bicycle race held in the Netherlands between 2003 and 2016. It was rated by the UCI as a 1.2 category race, and was primarily centred around Apeldoorn Apeldoorn ( ...

:1st Stage 4 Gracia-Orlová : Tour de l'Aude ::1st Stages 1, 3 & 9 :1st Commerce Bank

Philadelphia :1st Overall RaboSter Zeeuwsche Eilanden :1st Stage 4

::1st Stages 1 & 3 :1st Stage 5

:1st Stage 5

; 2010 :1st Overall San Dimas Stage Race ::1st Stage 3 :1st Overall Redlands Classic ::1st Stage 1 :1st Drenthe 8 Van Dwingeloo :1st Overall

Tour of Chongming Island The Tour of Chongming Island International Cycling Race is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race held in Shanghai, China, named after Chongming Island. The Tour previously consisted of two races: a stage race and a one-day rac ...

::1st Stages 1 & 3 :1st

Tour of Chongming Island World Cup The Tour of Chongming Island International Cycling Race is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race held in Shanghai, China, named after Chongming Island. The Tour previously consisted of two races: a stage race and a one-day race ...

: Tour de l'Aude ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 3, 6 & 9 :1st Commerce Bank

Philadelphia :

::1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 4 :1st Stage 1

:1st Stage 1

; 2011 :1st MaillotAlemania

Road race, National Road Championships :1st Stage 3 Tour of New Zealand :1st Stage 2 Energiewacht Tour :1st

:1st Overall

::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 2 :1st

:1st Stage 1 Giro del Trentino :

::1st Stages 4 & 10 : Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen ::1st Stages 1 & 2 :

::1st Stages 1 & 2 (TTT) :

::1st Stages 1 (TTT), 2 & 4a ;

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:1st Overall Energiewacht Tour ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 2, 3 & 4b (TTT) :1st Commerce Bank

Philadelphia :1st Stage 1 Emakumeen Euskal Bira : Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen ::1st Stages 1 & 2 :1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT :

::1st Stages 1, 2 & 5 :

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

::1st Team time trial (with

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 tim ...

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 finis ...

Amber Neben Amber Leone Neben (born February 18, 1975) is an American racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team . Neben won the UCI world time trial championship in 2008 and 2016 as well as the U.S. national road race champions ...

, Evelyn Stevens and

Trixi Worrack Beatrix "Trixi" Worrack (born 28 September 1981) is a German former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2021. The winner of the 2003 German National Road Race Championships, Worrack's career highlights i ...

) ::6th

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 ...

: 4th Road race,

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a vari ...

References

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