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Amber addition Road cycling
Amber Beside (2002)
Amber Beside (2002)
To person
Date of birth 18th February 1975 (age 45)
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Cogeas-Mettler Pro Cycling Team
function driver
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2016 World Champion - individual time trial
2012 World Champion - team time trial
2008 World Champion - individual time trial
Last updated: August 28, 2019
Amber Beside at the 2012 Olympics Individual Time Trial

Amber Neben (born February 18, 1975 in Irvine , California ) is an American cyclist and three-time world champion.

Career

In 2001 Amber was next US runner-up on the road. In the following years she was one of the top American road drivers. In 2003 she won the national title in road racing and in 2012 in the individual time trial , her specialty.

Successes were achieved in international races, such as victories in 2002 at Gracia Orlová , 2004 at the Tour of the Gila , 2005 and 2006 at the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin , 2006 and 2007 at the Redland Bicycle Classic and 2007 at the route de France Féminine . At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , she finished 33rd in the road race. In 2011 she also won the Chrono des Herbiers , a time trial.

In 2006 and 2012 Amber Besides won the individual time trial at the Pan American Championships. In 2008 she became world champion in this discipline, four years later world champion in team time trial. In 2013, she suffered a serious fall on the California Tour in which she broke a hip. It took until the summer of 2015 for her to regain shape and start racing.

In 2016 she also won her second world title in the individual time trial.

successes

2001
  • a stage Women's Challenge
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2016
2017
  • MaillotUSA.PNG American Champion - Individual Time Trial
2018
2019
  • silver Pan American Championship - Individual Time Trial
  • Chrono Gatineau
  • MaillotUSA.PNG American Champion - Individual Time Trial

Teams

Web links

Commons : Amber addition  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laura Weislo: Besides fighting back to form after two injury-plagued years. In: - Cyclingnews. June 1, 2015, accessed October 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Beside, Amber
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th February 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Irvine , California