Evelyn Stevens (cyclist)
Evelyn Lee Stevens (born May 9, 1983) is an American retired professional road cyclist.[3]
Early life
[edit]Stevens was born in Claremont, California, but grew up in Acton, Massachusetts,[4] where she attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School.[5] She studied government and women and gender studies at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and was a member of the college's tennis team.[6]
After graduating in 2005[4] she moved to New York City where she worked for Lehman Brothers for two years, then for mezzanine fund Gleacher Mezzanine before quitting in July 2009 to take up cycling full-time.[7]
Career
[edit]She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's road race, finishing 24th.[8] In July 2014, Stevens competed at the Giro d'Italia and Thüringen Rundfahrt over 17 consecutive days of racing, finishing 14th and 1st respectively.
On February 27, 2016, Stevens rode to a new UCI Hour record for women at the Olympic Training Center Velodrome in Colorado, United States, with a distance of 47.980 km.[9] She broke the record set January 22 by Australian Bridie O'Donnell in Adelaide, Australia, by 1.1 km.[10][11] Stevens was one of only three women (along with Trixi Worrack and Ellen van Dijk) to win four gold medals in the women's team time trial at the UCI Road World Championships.
Major results
[edit]Source:[12]
- 2008
- 1st Green Mountain Stage Race Cat 3/4 Women
- 2009
- 1st Overall Tour of the Battenkill
- 1st Overall Jiminy Peak
- 1st Overall Bear Mountain
- 1st Overall Housatonic Hills
- 1st Overall Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
- 1st Overall Cascade Cycling Classic
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall La Route de France
- 1st Stage 5
- 2010
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Chrono Gatineau
- 1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia Femminile[13]
- 1st Stage 6 North Star Grand Prix
- 5th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stage 3
- 5th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 5th GP de Plouay – Bretagne
- 6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 6th Sparkassen Giro
- 9th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
- 2011
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Trophée d'Or Féminin
- 1st Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 2nd Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
- 2nd GP de Plouay – Bretagne
- 7th Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
- 9th Memorial Davide Fardelli
- 9th Chrono Champenois
- 2012
- UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Team time trial (with Ellen van Dijk, Charlotte Becker, Amber Neben, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and Trixi Worrack)
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand
- 1st Overall Gracia-Orlová
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Overall Exergy Tour[14]
- 1st Overall La Route de France
- 1st Stages 7 & 9
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- Open de Suède Vårgårda
- 1st Team time trial
- 9th Road race
- 1st Stage 4b (TTT) Energiewacht Tour
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT)
- 2nd Chrono Gatineau
- 3rd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st Stage 3
- 5th GP de Plouay – Bretagne
- 10th Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau
- 2013
- UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Team time trial (with Ellen van Dijk, Carmen Small, Katie Colclough, Lisa Brennauer and Trixi Worrack)
- 4th Time trial
- 5th Road race
- 1st Overall Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol
- 1st Philadelphia Cycling Classic
- 1st Amgen Tour of California Women's Time Trial
- 1st Merco Cycling Classic
- Open de Suède Vårgårda
- 1st Team time trial
- 6th Road race
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Belgium Tour
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Holland Ladies Tour
- 2nd Overall Gracia-Orlová
- 1st Stage 1
- 3rd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
- 3rd Overall La Route de France
- 3rd Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
- 5th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 2014
- UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Team time trial (with Carmen Small, Lisa Brennauer, Chantal Blaak, Karol-Ann Canuel, and Trixi Worrack)
- 3rd Time trial
- 1st Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
- 1st Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 1st Overall Holland Ladies Tour
- 1st Philadelphia Cycling Classic
- 1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
- National Road Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 4th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 10th Tour of Flanders for Women
- 2015
- 1st Amgen Tour of California Women's Time Trial
- 1st Mountains classification Ladies Tour of Norway
- UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd Team time trial
- 6th Time trial
- 3rd Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 3rd Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda TTT
- 4th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
- 6th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 6th Philadelphia Cycling Classic
- 7th Time trial, EPZ Omloop van Borsele
- 8th GP de Plouay
- 9th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 10th Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
- 2016
- Hour record: 47.980 km
- 1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT
- 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st Stages 2, 6 & 7 (ITT)
- 2nd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 3rd Overall Tour of California
- 4th Philadelphia Cycling Classic
- 8th Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
- 10th Time trial, Summer Olympics
- 2019
- 1st 2019 Credit Suisse Sponsored Flywheel World Championships
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Athletes: Evelyn Stevens". london2012.com. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ^ Nagel, Maxwell (December 12, 2014). "Specialized, Evelyn Stevens move to Boels-Dolmans women's cycling team in 2015". VeloNews. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
- ^ "Stevens at Procyclingstats.com". Procyclingstats.com. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
- ^ a b "Evelyn Stevens". USA Cycling. Archived from the original on August 16, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ^ Klajman, Ed (August 6, 2012). "Evelyn Stevens relishes Olympic experience". Wicked Local Acton.
- ^ "Catching up with rising star Evelyn Stevens". VeloNews. July 14, 2009. Archived from the original on August 6, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ^ Albergotti, Reed (August 10, 2009). "Cycling's One-in-a-Million Story: Overworked Wall Streeter Buys a Bike to Stay Fit, Discovers an Elite Talent". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Olympic Results, Gold Medalists and Official Records". International Olympic Committee. February 18, 2019.
- ^ Kirsten Frattini. "Evelyn Stevens Hour Record Attempt 2016: Results - Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews.com.
- ^ McMahon, Daniel (February 27, 2016). "Evelyn Stevens sets new cycling hour record". Business Insider.
- ^ McMahon, Daniel (February 27, 2016). "A former Wall Street analyst just set a new world hour record in cycling". Business Insider. Retrieved February 29, 2016 – via Yahoo.com.
- ^ Evelyn Stevens at Cycling Archives (archive)
- ^ Atkins, Ben (July 8, 2010). "Evelyn Stevens solos over Ghisallo to take Giro Donne stage seven". velonation.com.
- ^ "Evelyn Stevens wins Exergy Tour". ESPN. May 28, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
External links
[edit]- Evelyn Stevens at UCI
- Profile at Velocio–SRAM Pro Cycling
- Evelyn Stevens at ProCyclingStats
- Evelyn Stevens at CQ Ranking
- 1983 births
- Living people
- American female cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for the United States
- Cyclists from New York City
- People from Acton, Massachusetts
- Sportspeople from Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- UCI Road World Champions (women)
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Cyclists from Massachusetts
- American expatriate sportspeople in Germany