Amber Neben
 Amber Neben at stage 8 of the 2001 Women's Challenge |
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| Full name | Amber Neben | ||||||||||||
| Born | February 18, 1975 Irvin, United States of America |
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| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) [1] | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 2008: 48 kg (110 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Current team | Nurnberger | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Allround [2] | ||||||||||||
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| 2002 2003-2004 2005-2008 2009 2010 |
Cannondale T-Mobile Team Team Flexpoint[2] Nurnberger[3][4] Webcor Builders Cycling Team |
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| Infobox last updated on July 21, 2010 |
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Amber Neben (born February 18, 1975)[2] is an American racing cyclist who won the UCI world time trial championship in 2008 and the U.S. national road race championship in 2003. She is the only active American female cyclist to win multiple UCI category 1 stage races, having won the Gracia Tour in 2002, theTour du Montreal in 2003 and the Tour de l'Aude in 2005 and again in 2006. In 2010 Neben is riding for the Webcor Builders Cycling Team
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[edit] Biography
Neben played soccer and ran cross-country in junior high and high school. She attended the University of Nebraska on a track and cross-country scholarship,. Stress fractures stopped her running and she became an undergraduate assistant coach in distance running. She took up cycling after graduating from college with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. She then obtained a Master's degree in biology from the University of California, Irvine.
She concentrated first on mountain biking but her greatest success was on the road. She won the Rupert to Pomerelle stage of the 2001 Women's Challenge race with its long, steep climb to the finish, the fourth American to win a stage at the Women's Challenge since it became a UCI event. She then concentrated on road cycling and was picked for the road world championship team in 2001 and 2002.
Neben tested positive for the banned substance 19-norandrosterone in 2003, after the Montreal World Cup race. The results were not confirmed until after the Tour du Montreal, which she won. Neben appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport [CAS] and accepted a provisional suspension from mid-July 2003. Neben said the positive test came from contaminated supplements. The North American CAS ruled in October 2003 that doping had occurred but that it was not intentional. Neben was suspended, in a split decision, for six months, starting from the provisional ban. She would be have to be tested for drugs regularly for the following 18 months.
Neben raced again in 2004. She came by eight seconds in the time trial selection race for the Olympic Games. In spring 2005, she won the Tour de l'Aude in France. She won again in 2006. She was picked for the 2008 U.S. Olympic team and came 33rd in the road race event in Beijing.[5] Later in 2008 she became the World TT Champion.[6]
[edit] Palmarès
- 2001
- 1st Stage victory, GP Féminin International du Canada (cat. 2)
- 1st Cascade Cycling Classic
- 1st 3 stage victories
- 5th Women's Challenge (cat. 1)
- 1st Stage victory, Women's Challenge
- 2nd United States National Road Race Championships
- 1st California State TT Championships (cat I-III)
- 2002
- 2nd United States National Road Race Championships
- 2nd United States National Time Trial Championships
- 2nd Housatonic Valley Classic
- 1st Gracia Cez-Ede (cat. 1)
- 1st Mountains jersey, Gracia Cez-Ede
- 1st Stage victory, Gracia Cez-Ede
- 2003
- 1st Le Tour du Montreal
- 1st
United States National Road Race Championships - 4th Gracia Tour
- Stage victory, Gracia Tour
- 2004
- 7th Giro della Toscana (cat. 1)
- Stage victory, Giro della Toscana
- 2nd United States National Time Trial Championships
- 2005
- 2nd United States National Time Trial Championships
- 1st Tour de l'Aude (cat. 1)
- Stage victory, Tour de l'Aude
- 2006
- 2nd La Route de France Feminin (cat. 2)
- 2nd L'Heure D'Or Feminin
- 2nd Thuringen-Rundfahrt (cat. 1)
- 3rd United States National Road Race Championships
- 2nd United States National Time Trial Championships
- 1st Pan American Cycling Championships Time Trial
- 1st Tour de l'Aude (cat. 1)
- 2nd Gracia Tour (cat. 2)
- 1st Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 2 stage victories, Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 2007
- 1st Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stage victory, Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Route de France Féminine
- 1st Stage victory, Route de France Féminine
- 2nd Thuringen-Rundfahrt
- 3rd United States National Road Race Championships
- 2nd United States National Time Trial Championships
- 3rd Giro San Marino
- 2008
- 3rd Grand Prix de Suisse / Souvenir Magali Pache
- 2nd overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 3rd stage 5
- 2nd stage 6
- 2nd stage 7
- 1st overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International Ardèche
- 2nd stage 2
- 2nd stage 4
- 3rd Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen
- 1st
UCI Road World Championships - Time Trial
- 2009
- 1st stage 3 Gracia - Orlová
- 1st stage 2 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin - Team Time Trial
- 1st stage 2 Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 2010
- 2nd Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand
- 1st stage 4 - Time Trial
- 2nd United States National Time Trial Championships
- 2011
- 1st GP Stad Roeselare
- 2nd Overall Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 1st Chrono des Nations
[edit] Photo gallery
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2002 Women's Challenge
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Stanley TT (2002 Women's Challenge)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Amber Neben". Yahoo!. http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/USA/Amber+Neben/221444;_ylt=AhNWUuKSqd2JFFBDkNAhCU0Sv5V4. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
- ^ a b c "Amber Neben Team Profile". Team Flexpoint. http://www.teamflexpoint.nl/www/components/rensters.asp?action=renster&folder_id=30&id=24. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- ^ "Amber Neben - Team". AmberNeben.com. http://www.amberneben.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=231&Itemid=87. Retrieved 2009-03-30.
- ^ Dreier, Fred (2009-03-26). "Amber Neben, Ben Day win the prologue at Redlands". VeloNews. http://www.velonews.com/article/89783. Retrieved 2009-03-30.
- ^ "Cycling - Women's Road Race". Yahoo!. http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/cycling/results/CRW012/2;_ylt=AgSnLyea35dJXWQ7kEesQpg1o5N4#CRW012100. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
- ^ "Neben wins élite women's time trial world championship". USA Cycling. http://www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=3865. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
[edit] External links
- Amber Neben's official web site
- Amber Neben's team (Dutch/English language)
- CAS arbitration ruling in Amber Neben case (pdf file)
- Daily Peloton interview
- Amber Neben profile at Cycling Archives
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Preceded by Hanka Kupfernagel |
World Time Trial Champion 2008 |
Succeeded by Kristin Armstrong |
