Charlotte Becker

Charlotte Becker
	Charlotte Becker (2018)
To person
Nickname	Lotte
Date of birth	May 19, 1983
nation	Germany
discipline	Road cycling, track cycling
To the team
Current team	Team Arkéa
function	driver
Societies)
2004-2005	RSV Unna 1968
Most important successes
	UCI Road World Championships 2012 : - team time trial
	Last updated: January 2, 2019

Charlotte Becker (born May 19, 1983 in Datteln ) is a German racing cyclist who is successful on the road and on the track .

Athletic career

Charlotte Becker has been active in cycling since 1991. In both 2000 and 2001 she was third in the singles pursuit at the Junior Track World Championships. In 2004 she won the title of European champion (junior) in the points race ; She was able to repeat this success in 2005. In 2008 she became German champion in the single pursuit (elite) and second in the points race. In 2008 she took third place in the team pursuit at the World Championships in Manchester, together with Verena Jooss and Alexandra Sontheimer .

In 2006 Charlotte Becker became German champion in the individual time trial on the road. Among other things, she won the Cologne Classic road race in 2008 and 2010 (2010 ahead of her sister Christina ) and the overall ranking of the Holland Ladies Tour (2008). In 2009 she was third in the Giro della Toscana . In 2010 she won her first World Cup victory at the GP Ciudad da Valladolid ahead of Judith Arndt . In addition, she became German champion in 2010 in the road race and in the single pursuit at the German Railway Championship in Cottbus ; she was runner-up in the points race. In August 2011 she finished second in the overall ranking of the Trophée d'Or Féminin .

In 2012 Charlotte Becker and her team from Specialized-lululemon ( Amber Neben , Evelyn Stevens , Ina-Yoko Teutenberg , Ellen van Dijk and Trixi Worrack ) won the world championship title in the team time trial at the road world championships in Limburg .

In September 2014, Becker announced that she would be back on the train after a two-year break . Your goal is to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . The following year she became German scratch champion .

In early July 2016, Charlotte Becker had a serious fall at the Giro d'Italia Femminile and had to undergo shoulder surgery. Nevertheless, a few weeks later she was able to start at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she finished ninth in the team pursuit together with Mieke Kröger , Stephanie Pohl and Gudrun Stock .

In 2018 she won the the UCI Women's World Tour 2018 is part of stage race Tour of Chongming Iceland . At the European Rail Championships in Glasgow in 2018 , she won the bronze medal in the team pursuit with Lisa Brennauer , Gudrun Stock and Mieke Kröger .