Anna Kiesenhofer

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Anna Kiesenhofer Road cycling
Anna Kiesenhofer 2016
Anna Kiesenhofer 2016
To person
birth date 14th February 1991 (age 30)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
discipline road
To the team
Current team Cookina Graz
International team (s)
2017 Lotto Soudal Ladies
Most important successes
Olympic Summer Games
2021 Gold medal.svg - street races
Last updated: July 25, 2021

Anna Kiesenhofer (born February 14, 1991 in Kirchdorf an der Krems ) is an Austrian cyclist and mathematician . She won the Olympic road race in Tokyo in 2021 and is multiple Austrian national champion in individual time trials and road races .

After completing her doctorate in mathematics, she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) since 2017 .

Athletic career

From 2011 to 2013 Anna Kiesenhofer was active in triathlon and duathlon . Due to an injury, she was unable to walk for a long time and from 2014 she concentrated fully on cycling . She drove for the Catalan team Frigoríficos Costa Brava-Naturalium , with which she was the overall winner of the Copa de España in 2016 . In September, Kiesenhofer took part in the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche in a mixed team of female riders from different teams . She achieved her greatest success to date with victory in the third stage, a mountain finish on Mont Ventoux . For 2017, Kiesenhofer received a contract with Lotto Soudal Ladies , but ended it prematurely to work in her profession as a mathematician .

After a two-year break from racing, the 28-year-old became Austrian state champion in the individual time trial in May 2019 and also in the road race in July. At the European Championships she finished fifth in the time trial and 20th at the World Championships . On August 22, 2020, she repeated her success of the previous year and was again Austrian state champion in the individual time trial, also in 2021.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics , Anna Kiesenhofer won the gold medal in the women's road bike race on July 25, 2021 in Tokyo . Her victory in this race was considered "sensational" because she does not drive with a higher-class racing team and does the sport in addition to her work as a mathematician. In the race, Kiesenhofer moved away from the field in a group of three, drove the last 41 kilometers solo and won after around three and a half hours with 1:15 minutes ahead of second Annemiek van Vleuten , who first thought she was the winner when crossing the finish line, because she hadn't noticed that Anna Kiesenhofer had moved far forward beforehand. In cycling, this was the first Olympic medal for an Austrian and the first gold medal for Austria since Adolf Schmal's victory at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 .

Life

Kiesenhofer first grew up in the Ansfelden district of Haid in Upper Austria , before the family moved to Niederkreuzstetten in Lower Austria in 1993 . From 2008 to 2011 she studied mathematics at the Technical University of Vienna , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Bachelor thesis : Mean ergodic semigroups of operators ). She received her master's degree from Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge in the 2011/2012 winter semester. In 2016 she was awarded her with the best mark ( excellent cum laude rated) Working integrable systems on b-symplectic manifolds at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia doctorate . Since 2017 she has been working as a postdoc at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland with partial differential equations .

successes

2016

2019

2020

  • MaillotAustria.PNG Austrian state champion - individual time trial

2021

scientific publications

  • Anna Kiesenhofer: Integrable systems on b-symplectic manifolds. Dissertation, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya 2016. ( pdf )
  • Anna Kiesenhofer, Eva Miranda: Noncommutative integrable systems on b-symplectic manifolds . In: Regular and Chaotic Dynamics 21 (2016), pp. 643-659. doi : 10.1134 / S1560354716060058
  • Anna Kiesenhofer, Eva Miranda: Cotangent Models for Integrable Systems . In: Communications in Mathematical Physics 350 (2017), pp. 1123–1145. doi : 10.1007 / s00220-016-2720-x
  • Anna Kiesenhofer, Joachim Krieger : Small data global regularity for half-wave maps in n = 4 dimensions. In: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (June 2021). doi : 10.1080 / 03605302.2021.1936021

Web links

Commons : Anna Kiesenhofer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lukas Wieselberg, science.ORF.at: Saddle festival on the bike and in mathematics. July 24, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b Dominik Feischl: Kiesenhofer half Upper Austrian. In: www.nachrichten.at. July 28, 2021, accessed July 28, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Emma Zapatero: Anna Kiesenhofer lidera a las élite en la Copa de España de féminas. Kiesenhofer leads the elite in the women's Spanish Cup. In: Ciclo21. May 24, 2016, accessed July 25, 2021 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ THE SPORTS YEAR 2019 - year of victories and scandals (December 28, 2019)
  5. ↑ ÖRV - Austrian Cycling Association: Kiesenhofer with a superior victory before the start of the European Championship, Brändle still catches Gamper and wins title number six (August 22, 2020)
  6. ↑ Florian Pütz: cyclist Kiesenhofer wins Olympic gold: not even the mathematician expected that. In: Der Spiegel . July 25, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 .
  7. ^ The next Olympic drama by Annemiek van Vleuten. In: FAZ.net . July 25, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Interview with Anna Kiesenhofer (English), accessed on July 27, 2021
  9. ↑ Cycling at the 2021 Olympics: Austria's Anna Kiesenhofer surprised. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. July 25, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 .
  10. ↑ Anna Kiesenhofer sensationally wins gold in the road bike race. In: standard.at. July 25, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 .
  11. ^ Mark Taylor: Tokyo Olympics: How Austria's Anna Kiesenhofer went from Cambridge University Cycling Club to women's road race gold. In: cambridgeindependent.co.uk of July 25, 2021, accessed July 26, 2021.
  12. ^ Anna Kiesenhofer - Online People Directory. In: epfl.ch. EPFL SB MATH PDE, accessed July 25, 2021 .
  13. ↑ Peter Maurer: Kiesenhofer time trial champion two years after the end of her career. In: radsport-news.com. May 21, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 .
  14. ^ Entry on Mathematics Genealogy Project , accessed on July 26, 2021.
personal data
SURNAME Kiesenhofer, Anna
SHORT DESCRIPTION Austrian cyclist
BIRTH DATE February 14, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederkreuzstetten