Elisabeth Brandau

Elisabeth Brandau

Elisabeth Brandau (2018)
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Date of birth	16th December 1985 (age 34)
nation	Germany
discipline	Road / cross-country / train / MTB
Last updated: December 10, 2018

Elisabeth Brandau (* 16th December 1985 ) is a German mountain bike - cyclist in the disciplines marathon and cross-country .

Athletic career

In 2001 Brandau became German road champion in the youth class. In 2002 and 2003 she became the German junior mountain champion .

After a job-related break from 2004 to 2007, Brandau resumed her activities in competitive sports in 2008, but worked full-time in her job as a refrigeration system builder in addition to her cycling activities until 2010 .

In 2008 Brandau was 13th at the MTB Marathon World Cup in Manavgat / Turkey, won the Alpentour Trophy in Austria (4-day cross-country stage race) and won the Trans Schwarzwald (marathon stage race over a week the Black Forest ). In the national championships of the Mountain Bike Marathon 2008 she secured victory and became German Marathon Champion 2008.

In 2009 she became a member of the BDR's national mountain bike cross country team . In 2010 she won the Trans Germany Tour , came second in the German Cyclo-Cross Championship and fourth in the Marathon World Championship.

Elisabeth Brandau started in 2011 for the Central Haibike Pro Team , registered with the World Cycling Federation as the UCI MTB Team , and won the title of German Marathon Champion, took second place in the German Cross-Country Championship and was fifth in the Marathon World Championship.

In 2012 she moved to the newly founded Notebooksbilliger.de team , of which she was the team leader. The team was disbanded after one season. She repeated her success from 2008 and again won the German championship in the MTB marathon on May 6, 2012 in Singen . In addition, Elisabeth Brandau became the first German sprint champion in Kirchzarten that same year.

After the main sponsor left, the newly founded EBE Racing Team was created with the help of the other sponsors , with which she then became German runner-up at the German Cross-Country Championship. She also came third in the Baden-Württemberg Championship in the single road category and came third in the German Marathon Championship in Münsingen.

In 2014 Elisabeth Brandau entered the Cyclo-Cross with a victory at the SKS-CUP and won seven of nine races in the series. In addition, Elisabeth Brandau was then German runner-up in the cyclo-cross behind Hanka Kupfernagel in Döhlau. At the Cyclo-Cross World Championships at the end of January 2014 in Hoogerheide (NL), Elisabeth Brandau was best German in 16th place. In May and June 2014, the mountain biker and team boss won the Piccolo in Riva, the 120 km marathon in Willingen and then the UCI Marathon Sella Ronda in the Dolomites.

Elisabeth's first son was born in 2015. She then made her comeback in 2016 and became German champion in cyclo-cross racing in Vechta . Elisabeth won several races in the coming season and was seventh in the XCO UCI MTB World Cup in Albstadt. In 2017 Elisabeth became a mother for the second time.

Also in 2018 she became German cyclo-cross champion in Bensheim and fifth at the World Championships in Valkenbourg (NL). There was also a fifth place at the Europe Games in Glasgow and an eighth place at the UCI XCO World Championships in Lenzerheide (CH). There she also won the silver World Cup medal with the Association of German Cyclists in the team relay. In September 2018 she won the Süpercross Baden in Switzerland.

Web links

• Website Elisabeth Brandau
• Elisabeth Brandau in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BDR-Kader on rad-net.de accessed on November 17, 2011
2. ↑ MTB: Elisabeth Brandau 2013 under its own flag. rad-net.de, January 2, 2013, accessed on January 12, 2016 . 
3. ↑ rad-net.de from May 6, 2012: Kaufmann and Brandau win marathon titles
4. ↑ Bathing in cross-bike fever: Riders give everything - and the fans also do their part for the spectacle (September 16, 2018)