Amber Neben
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Amber Neben at stage 8 of the 2001 Women's Challenge
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| Full name | Amber Neben | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 18, 1975 Irvine, California, United States of America |
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| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) (2008)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Visit Dallas-Noise | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Allround [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2015 | Visit Dallas-Noise | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002 | Cannondale | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003-2004 | T-Mobile Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-2008 | Team Flexpoint[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Nurnberger[3][4] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Webcor Builders Cycling Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | HTC-Highroad Women | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Team Specialized–lululemon | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Pasta Zara-Cogeas[5] | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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, the Tour du Montreal in 2003 and the Tour de l'Aude in 2005 and again in 2006. In 2012 Neben rode for Velocio–SRAM Pro Cycling.
Biography
Age the age of four Neben survived a bout of spinal meningitis, which left her in a coma for three days. Doctors told her parents that she was unlikely to survive, and that if she did, she would probably have endured brain damage and have lost her hearing.[6] 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, having originally commenced studies for a PhD. Whilst she was at UC Irvine she scored a top 10 finish at the national collegiate cycling championships, which persuaded her to exit with her master's degree and focus on professional cycling.[6]
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 have to be tested for drugs regularly for the following 18 months.
Neben raced again in 2004. She missed placing first 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.[7] Later in 2008 she became the World TT Champion.[8]
In 2007 she underwent a successful program of treatment for melanoma.[6]
Neben made the 2012 U.S. Olympic team for the Women's road race, along with Kristin Armstrong, Shelley Olds and Evelyn Stevens. In the Women's time trial she finished 7th.
She is married to Jason, an assistant professor of education at Concordia University Irvine.[6]
Palmarès
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- 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 – Buitenpoort-Flexpoint Team 2006 season
- 2nd La Route de France Feminin (cat. 2)
- 2nd L'Heure D'Or Feminin
- 2nd Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen (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
- 2nd 2007 Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen
- 1st Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stage victory, Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Route de France Féminine
- 1st Stage victory, Route de France Féminine
- 2nd Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 3rd United States National Road Race Championships
- 2nd United States National Time Trial Championships
- 3rd Giro San Marino
- 2008 – Team Flexpoint 2008 season
- 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 2008 Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen
- 1st ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.› 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 – HTC-Highroad 2011 season
- 1st GP Stad Roeselare
- 2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 1st Chrono des Nations
- 2012 – Team Specialized–lululemon 2012 season
- 1st Pan American Cycling Championships Time Trial
- 4th overall Vuelta a El Salvador
- 1st stage 2
- 1st stage 3b
- 1st Team time trial, 2012 UCI Road World Championships (together with Ellen van Dijk, Charlotte Becker, Evelyn Stevens, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and Trixi Worrack)
- 4th Road race, UCI Road Race World Championships
- 2014
- 2nd Overall Cascade Classic Stage Race
- 2015
- 1st Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 2nd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic[9]
- 3rd Overall Joe Martin Stage Race[10]
- 3rd United States National Time Trial Championships[11]
- 3rd Overall Cascade Cycling Classic[12]
- 4th Tour of California Women's Time Trial[13]
- 2nd Overall La Route de France
Gallery
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2002 Women's Challenge
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Stanley TT (2002 Women's Challenge)
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Neben competing in the 2012 Olympics time trial in London]]
See also
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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 at Cycling ArchivesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of the United States
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
- University of California, Irvine alumni
- UCI Road World Champions (women)
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- People from Irvine, California
- Sportspeople from California
