Lisa Brennauer (born 8 June 1988) is a German former

racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing ...

, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2022, for six different teams. On the track, Brennauer won the gold medal at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in the women's team pursuit with

Mieke Kröger Mieke Kröger (born 18 July 1993) is a German track and road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career After two years with the team, she rode for on the road in 2015. In November 2015, she was announced as part of the t ...

Lisa Klein Dr. Lisa Klein is an American author known for her Shakespearean works including ''Ophelia'' and ''Lady Macbeth's Daughter''. She was an assistant professor of English at Ohio State University for eight years but left when she was denied tenure. ...

and

Franziska Brauße Franziska Brauße (born 20 November 1998) is a German professional road and track, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . In 2012, Franziska Brauße won her first national title when she became German champion in the road race f ...

, setting the new world record. She also won two gold medals at the

2021 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2021 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were held from 20 to 24 October 2021 at the Velodrome Couvert Regional Jean-Stablinski in Roubaix, France. The championships were originally scheduled to be held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. The elimi ...

, and four gold medals over three different

UEC European Track Championships The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...

. On the road, Brennauer formed part of three consecutive team time trial world championship victories between

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and

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, and also won world titles in the individual time trial in

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, and the mixed team relay in

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. Brennauer also won nine national road titles during her career – five in the

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 ...

and four in the road race – as well as several stage races such as

The Women's Tour The Women's Tour is a women's cycle stage race held in England and Wales, as part of the UCI Women's World Tour. The race is organised by SweetSpot, the company behind the men's Tour of Britain. History Its origins trace back to 2010 when ...

, the

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 ...

, the

Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. Since 2008 this event is on the UCI women's elite cycle racing ...

, the

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 ...

(twice) and the

Challenge by La Vuelta The Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta (La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta before 2020) is an elite women's professional bicycle race held in Spain, and has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016. Similar to La Course by Le Tour de France ...

(twice).

Major results

Source:

Road

;2005 : 1st Jersey rainbow chrono

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 ...

UCI Junior World Championships The UCI Juniors World Championships were a set of UCI World Championships events for junior bicycle cyclists in 2005 to 2009. In 2010 it was divided into: *The Junior men's road race at the UCI Road World Championships *The UCI Juniors Track World ...

;2007 : 1st

Weitnau Weitnau ( Low Alemannic: ''Witne'') is a municipality in the rural district Oberallgäu in Bavaria/Germany. Together with the neighboring municipality of Missen-Wilhams, Weitnau shares an administrative unit. Geography Weitnau is situated in t ...

Criterium A criterium, or crit, is a bike race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 400 m to 10,000 m. Overview Race length can be determined by a number of laps or total time ...

: 1st Duracher-Abend-Kriterium : 1st Buchloer Citykriterium : 2nd Rosenheimer Frucade-Straßenpreis : 2nd Allgäuer Festwochenpreis Kempten : 3rd Köln-Schuld-Frechen ;2008 : 1st Duracher Straßenpreis : 1st Grand Prix Allgäu : 1st

Günzach Günzach is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and ...

: 2nd Preis der Stadtsparkasse Schrobenhausen : 3rd Pinswanger Straßenrennen : 3rd Rund um den Elm : 3rd Allgäuer Festwochenpreis Kempten : UEC European Under-23 Road Championships ::4th Road race ::9th Time trial ;2009 : Bavaria State Road Championships ::1st Road race ::2nd Time trial : 1st Aichacher-Frühjahrsstraßenpreis : 2nd Overall Albstadt-Frauen-Etappenrennen ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd

Berner Rundfahrt Tour de Berne is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held in Berne, Switzerland with races for men and women. Men's event The men's event began in 1920 and has previously been a UCI 1.2 rated event on the UCI Europe Tour. Women' ...

: 3rd Pinswanger Straßenrennen : 3rd Großer Silber Pils Preis ;2011 : 1st Eidsvollrittet Race 2 : 1st Betten Lima Kriterium : 3rd Ronde van Goor ;

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

: 3rd Overall

Belgium Tour The Lotto Belgium Tour is an elite women's professional road bicycle stage race, held in Belgium since 2012. In the first year the tour consisted of three stages and grew with a team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race ...

;

: 1st

Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...

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

, National Road Championships : 1st

Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT Open or OPEN may refer to: Music * Open (band), Australian pop/rock band * The Open (band), English indie rock band * ''Open'' (Blues Image album), 1969 * ''Open'' (Gotthard album), 1999 * ''Open'' (Cowboy Junkies album), 2001 * ''Open'' (Y ...

: 1st Stage 2 ( TTT)

: 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 3rd Overall

Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen "The Internationale" (french: "L'Internationale", italic=no, ) is an international anthem used by various communist and socialist groups; currently, it serves as the official anthem of the Chinese Communist Party, Communist Party of China. It ...

: 4th Overall Energiewacht Tour : 4th

Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen The Chrono Champenois is a European individual time trial bicycle race held around Bétheny in France, in the Champagne region. The race has been organised as a 1.2 event since 1989 for women's and since 1998 there is also a men's race which is ...

: 7th Overall Gracia-Orlová : 7th

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 ( ...

: 8th Overall

Ladies Tour of Qatar The Tour of Qatar was an annual professional cycling stage race held in Qatar. First organized in 2002, the event was part of the UCI Asia Tour until 2016. The 2017 edition was to have seen the event upgraded to the UCI World Tour for the first ...

: 8th Overall

Tour Languedoc Roussillon Tour Languedoc Roussillon was a women's staged cycle race which took place in France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regio ...

::1st Stage 5 (

ITT ITT may refer to: Communication * Infantry-Tank Telephone, a device allowing infantrymen to speak to the occupants of armoured vehicles. Mathematics *Intuitionistic type theory, other name of Martin-Löf Type Theory *Intensional type theory B ...

) ;

::1st

::2nd

Road race : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAlemania

::1st

Road race : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Auensteiner-Radsporttage ::1st Stages 1 (

) & 2 : 1st

Ronde van Overijssel Ronde van Overijssel ( en, Tour of Overijssel) is an elite men's road bicycle racing event held annually in Overijssel, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union. The event is UCI 1.2 rated, and is part of the UCI Europe Tou ...

: 1st

Grand Prix Leende Grand Prix Leende or GP Leende is an elite women's road bicycle race held annually since 2012 in Leende, Netherlands. The time trial is together with the time trial at the Omloop van Borsele Omloop van Borsele ("Circuit of Borsele") is an elite ...

Open de Suède Vårgårda Open de Suède Vårgårda is an elite professional women's road bicycle event held annually in the Vårgårda Municipality of Sweden. Created in 2006, the Open de Suède Vårgårda was part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup until 2015 and sanc ...

::1st

::6th Road race : 2nd Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 3rd Overall

::1st

German rider classification ::1st Prologue & Stage 3 (

) : 4th

La Course by Le Tour de France La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...

: 5th Overall Energiewacht Tour ::1st Stage 3b ( TTT) : 5th

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 ...

: 10th Novilon EDR Cup ;2015 :

::1st

::3rd

: 1st

Overall Energiewacht Tour ::1st Stage 2a ( TTT) : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Jersey orange

Overall

::1st Stages 4 (

) & 5 : National Road Championships ::2nd

::3rd Road race :

::2nd

::3rd Road race : 2nd Time trial,

EPZ Omloop van Borsele Omloop van Borsele ("Circuit of Borsele") is an elite women's professional road bicycle race held annually since 2002 in Borsele, Netherlands. Since 2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa ...

: 3rd

Diamond Tour The Spar Flanders Diamond Tour is a women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Belgium. It is currently rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale The ''Union Cycliste Internationale'' (UCI; ; en, International Cycling Union) i ...

: 5th Overall

Thüringen Rundfahrt 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 ...

::1st

German rider classification ::1st Stages 1 & 3a (

) : 6th

: 10th Overall

Gracia–Orlová Gracia–Orlová is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic and in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. It was created in 1987. Since 2004, it starts in Dětmarovice. A mountain stage i ...

::1st Stage 3 (

) ;2016 :

::2nd

::6th

: National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::3rd

: 2nd 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 ...

::1st Stage 1 : 2nd

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road bicycle racing, road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic cycle races, classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late ...

: 3rd Overall Energiewacht Tour ::1st Jersey green

Points classification : 5th Overall

: 5th

Chrono Champenois The Chrono Champenois is a European individual time trial bicycle race held around Bétheny in France, in the Champagne region. The race has been organised as a 1.2 event since 1989 for women's and since 1998 there is also a men's race which is ...

: 8th

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

: 8th Overall

::1st

German rider classification : 8th Overall

::1st Stage 5 ;2017 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st

German rider classification ::1st Prologue : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd

: 3rd Overall

Healthy Ageing Tour Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiz ...

::1st Stage 3 : 3rd

Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organi ...

: 3rd

Dwars door Vlaanderen Dwars door Vlaanderen ''( en, Across Flanders)'' is a semi-classic road bicycle race in Belgium, held annually since 1945. The race starts in Roeselare and finishes in Waregem, both in West Flanders. Since 2017 the event is included in the UCI W ...

: 3rd Prudential RideLondon Classique : 3rd Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT : 3rd Race Melbourne – Albert Park : 4th Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 4 : 5th

;2018 : 1st MaillotAlemania

, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st

German rider classification ::1st Stage 4 : 3rd Bronze medal europe

Road race, UEC European Road Championships : 5th

Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 3 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 3, three, or III may also refer to: * AD 3, the third year of the AD era * 3 BC, the third year before the AD era * March, the third month Books * ''Three of Them'' (Russian: ', literally, "three"), a 1901 n ...

: 5th Team time trial, Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour : 7th Overall

Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta La Vuelta Femenina (; "The Female Tour") is an elite women's professional bicycle race held in Spain. The race is organised by and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), which also organises the men's Vuelta a España. It is part of the UCI Women's ...

: 8th

: 10th Overall

;2019 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAlemania

Road race ::3rd

: 1st

Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Jersey violet

Overall

Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta La Vuelta Femenina (; "The Female Tour") is an elite women's professional bicycle race held in Spain. The race is organised by and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), which also organises the men's Vuelta a España. It is part of the UCI Women's ...

::1st Stage 1 (

) : 1st Stage 4b

::2nd

Mixed team relay ::9th Road race ::10th

: UEC European Road Championships ::2nd Silver medal europe

Team relay ::7th Road race : 6th Overall

Women's Tour de Yorkshire The Women's Tour de Yorkshire is a women's road cycling race in Yorkshire, England. From 2015 to 2017, the event was a one-day race. From 2018 onwards, the event has been a two-day event, with a UCI race classification of 2.1. The event is the ...

: 8th Overall

: 8th

: 9th Overall

;2020 : UEC European Road Championships ::1st Gold medal europe

Mixed team relay ::4th Time trial ::6th Road race : 1st MaillotAlemania

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey red

Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 2 (

) : 2nd

: 3rd

::4th

::9th Road race : 4th

: 8th

Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...

;2021 :

::1st

Mixed team relay ::5th

::9th Road race : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAlemania

::1st

Road race : 2nd Overall

: 2nd

: 3rd

, UEC European Road Championships : 3rd

: 4th

Paris–Roubaix Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It is one of cycling's oldest races, and is one of the 'Monuments' or classics of the ...

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 var ...

::6th Road race ::6th

: 7th

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and ...

;2022 : 1st MaillotAlemania

, National Road Championships : 4th Road race, UEC European Road Championships

Results timelines

Track

;2008 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Team pursuit,

2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2008–2009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race competition over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 31 October 2008 to 18 February 2009. The World Cup is organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The World C ...

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

: 9th

Individual pursuit The individual pursuit is a track cycling event where two cyclists begin the race from a stationary position on opposite sides of the track. It is held at over for men and for women. The riders start at the same time and set off to complete the ...

, UEC European Under-23 Championships ;2009 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Team pursuit,

2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 30 October 2009 to 24 January 2010. The World Cup was organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The World Cup k ...

: 3rd

Team pursuit,

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

: 3rd

Team pursuit, UEC European Under-23 Championships ;2010 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2010–2011 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 2 December 2010 to 20 February 2011. The World Cup is organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. As in the pr ...

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

: 2nd Individual pursuit, National Championships : 3rd Bronze medal europe

, UEC European Championships ;2011 : National Championships ::1st MaillotAlemania

Omnium ::3rd Individual pursuit : 2nd Silver medal europe

, UEC European Championships : 3rd Bronze medal blank

2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup The 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup (also known as the 2011–2012 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, presented by Samsung for sponsorship reasons) was a multi-race tournament over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 4 November 2011 to ...

Astana Astana, previously known as Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, Akmola, and most recently Nur-Sultan, is the capital city of Kazakhstan. The city lies on the banks of the Ishim (river), Ishim River in the north-central part of Kazakhstan, within the Akmo ...

: 4th Omnium,

;2013 : 1st MaillotAlemania

Individual pursuit, National Championships ;2018 : UEC European Championships ::1st European champion jersey 2016

::3rd

: 1st

Individual pursuit, National Championships ;2019 : 2nd Silver medal blank

UCI World Championships The UCI world championships are annual competitions promoted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to determine world champion cyclists. They are held in several different styles of racing, in a different country each year. Championship winne ...

: Team pursuit,

2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup The 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup (also known as the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup for sponsorship reasons) is a multi-race tournament over a track cycling season. It is the 28th series of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup organised by t ...

::2nd

Minsk ::2nd Silver medal blank

Glasgow : UEC European Championships ::2nd Silver medal europe

::2nd

;2020 :

::2nd

::3rd

;2021 : 1st Gold medal olympic

::1st

::1st

: UEC European Championships ::1st European champion jersey 2016

::1st

;2022 : UEC European Championships ::1st European champion jersey 2016

::2nd

References

External links

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