Greta Neimanas

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Greta Neimanas Road cycling
Greta Neimans (r.) With Sarah Storey (center) and Jennifer Schuble
Greta Neimans (r.) With Sarah Storey (center) and Jennifer Schuble
To person
Date of birth May 4, 1988
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Paracycling: road / track cycling (C5)
End of career 2016
Team (s)
2011-2016 Exergy Twenty16
Most important successes
UCI Paracycling Road World Championships
2013 World Champion - individual time trial
Team (s) as coach
since 2018 US Navy's Safe Harbor cycling
Last updated: March 25, 2020

Greta Neimanas (born May 4, 1988 in Chicago ) is an American cycling trainer and former paracycler . As an active, she started in class C5.

Athletic career

Greta Neimanas was born without a left forearm. In her high school , she was the captain of the soccer team. When she was 16, she won a trip to the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens in a What Ability Means to Me competition . There she was so fascinated by cycling that she started training herself in 2005. She was invited to a national team camp and moved to Colorado Springs in 2007 to train at the US Olympic Training Center .

In 2008 Neimans qualified for the Paralympics in Beijing , but remained without a medal. In 2012 she won the overall World Cup and in 2015 the World Championship in scratch . Her strength was the individual time trial on the road , in which she became world champion in 2013 . At the 2012 Paralympics in London , she competed in four races, but remained without a medal and took two fourth places. In 2014 she became the first disabled athlete to ride the California Tour .

In June 2015, Greta Neimanas had a serious fall during a World Cup race in Italy . It was her last race. Because of the ongoing consequences of the injuries she sustained, she officially retired from active cycling in 2016. In total, she won twelve national titles and 17 world championship medals during her playing career.

Professional

Since 2018 Neimanas has been the head coach of the cycling team for disabled members of the US Navy ("US Navy's Safe Harbor cycling") and also trains the team for participation in the Invictus Games 2020.

In addition, Greta Neimanas is involved in the athletes' commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and as spokeswoman for the paracycler at the United States Olympic Committee .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Greta Neimanas ( Memento from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Coach Greta Neimanas. In: Mind Right Endurance. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Tyler Stern: Greta Neimanas. In: Disabled Sports USA. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Neimanas, Greta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago