Clara Koppenburg

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Clara Koppenburg Road cycling
Clara Koppenburg (2018)
Clara Koppenburg (2018)
To person
Date of birth August 3, 1995
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain driver
To the team
Current team Equipe Paule Ka
function driver
Societies)
2014 RSV Seerose Friedrichshafen
Most important successes

Overall ranking Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 2019

Last updated: April 1st, 2019

Clara Koppenburg (born August 3, 1995 in Lörrach ) is a German racing cyclist .

Life

Athletic career

Clara Koppenburg started cycling relatively late, at the age of 17. Her father, who was the doctor of a professional cycling team, took her to a world championship, where she discovered the sport for herself. As a student, Koppenburg competed in athletics at TuS Lörrach-Stetten and also successfully participated in running competitions. In 2013 she passed her A-levels at the Hebel-Gymnasium in Lörrach .

After a year in the U23 team at RSV Seerose Friedrichshafen 2014, Clara Koppenburg has been racing in the women's elite since 2015. A year later she was able to finish third in the Tour of Bern , where her captain Ashleigh Moolman won.

In 2017 she finished fourth in the U23 individual time trial at the European Road Championships . A few weeks later she won the bronze medal with her Cervélo Bigla Pro Cycling Team in the team time trial of the 2017 World Championships and established herself as a noble helper.

At the UEC European Road Championships in Glasgow in 2018, she helped her German teammate Lisa Brennauer to a podium place. In the road race of the 2018 World Championships , Koppenburg was active on a steep climb and finally came in 18th. The four-day Emakumeen Euskal Bira stage race in the Basque Country from May 19 to 22, 2018, Clara Koppenburg finished 9th in the final classification, and did important helper services for Ashleigh Moolman, who finished 6th in the stage race. Koppenburg was able to complete the third stage of the Emakumeen Bira at the same time as the winner Amy Pieters .

In the 2019 season, after an attack on the steep Xorret de Catí with the third stage of the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana, she won her first international bike race and then the overall ranking of the tour . In 2020 she returned to Team Bigla, where she took on the role of captain. In her first race of the season in February 2020 she was able to finish the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana in second place overall. After the break from racing due to the COVID-19 pandemic , she finished 6th in the Spanish one-day race Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa and 4th in Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria at the end of July. Due to a fall-related injury during training the day before, she was unable to take part in the sixth edition of the Strade Bianche as planned .

Private

Clara Koppenburg studied sports science at the University of Konstanz and graduated in November 2018. Koppenburg lives in Lörrach (as of 2020).

successes

Koppenburg at the German road racing championships 2017
2017
2019

Teams

Honors

  • 2017: Sports honor of the city of Lörrach

Web links

Commons : Clara Koppenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Clara Koppenburg: Cycling has changed my life , sportfrauen.net, October 28, 2018, accessed on October 16, 2019
  2. ↑ Leichtathletik-datenbank.de: Performance statistics from Clara Koppenburg , accessed on November 1, 2019
  3. ↑ Press release of TuS Lörrach-Stetten: Double victory of TuS runners at the Grand Prix of Bern , article from May 17, 2012, accessed on November 1, 2019
  4. ^ Badische Zeitung : Outstanding Abitur at the Hebel-Gymnasium - Lörrach - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ rad-net.de: Clara Koppenburg's clubs and teams , accessed on October 17, 2019
  6. ↑ Südkurier : Clara Koppenburg, the perfect noble helper , article from June 7, 2017, accessed on October 16, 2019
  7. ↑ This is how the Lörrach cyclist Clara Koppenburg helped her team colleague to get bronze. In: badische-zeitung.de. July 8, 2018, accessed September 16, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Koppenburg turns dreams from the night before into reality. In: radsport-news.com. February 24, 2019, accessed February 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ rad-net.de: Koppenburg switches back to Bigla , article from October 16, 2019, accessed on October 18, 2019
  10. ↑ Now she even dreams of the EM. In: verlagshaus-jaumann.de. June 3, 2015, accessed September 14, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Basler Zeitung : From bottle bearer to leader , article from April 28, 2019, accessed on January 20, 2020
  12. ↑ Official Website of Clara Koppenburg called on October 16, 2019
  13. ↑ City of Lörrach honors champions of the sport of 2017 , accessed on November 1, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Koppenburg, Clara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach