Judith Arndt

Judith Arndt
	Judith Arndt at the Thuringia Tour 2011.
To person
Date of birth	July 23, 1976
nation	Germany
discipline	Road, rail
To the team
Current team	End of career
Team (s)
2001–2002 ; 2003–2005 ; 2006–2007 ; 2008–2011 ; 2012	Saturn cycling team ; Equipe Nürnberger ; T-Mobile women team ; HTC Highroad Women ; GreenEdge-AIS
Most important successes
	Olympic games Olympic third in single pursuit 1996 Olympic runner-up in road race 2004 Olympic runner-up in the 2012 individual time trial World championships World champion in single pursuit 1997 World road race champion 2004 World time trial champion 2011 World time trial champion 2012 Cycling world cup World number one in 2004 German championships German champion in track / single pursuit 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 German champion in single time driving 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 , 2010 , 2011 German road racing champion in 2002
	Last updated: July 29, 2017

Judith Arndt in 2002

German championship 2005

Judith Arndt at the International Thuringia Tour of Women 2012

Judith Arndt after the stage “Around Schmölln ” at the International Thuringia Tour of Women 2012

Judith Arndt (born July 23, 1976 in Königs Wusterhausen ) is a former German cyclist , second in the Olympics and four-time world champion.

Cycling career

From the mid-1990s, Judith Arndt was one of the strongest female cyclists in the world, first on the track and later on the road . In 1993 and 1994 Judith Arndt was German junior champion in the single pursuit on the track. Also in 1994 she became vice world champion of the juniors in this discipline in Quito . In 1996 she became two-time German champion in the elite at the German championships in both the points race and the single pursuit. In 1996 she won the bronze medal in the single pursuit at the Olympic Games in Atlanta and became world champion in this discipline in 1997 . After falling below her potential due to a virus infection at the 2000 Olympic Games , Arndt said goodbye to the track.

With a third place in the Tour de France for women (2003), two overall victories in the Tour de l'Aude (2002/2003) and the world championship silver in the individual time trial in Hamilton (Canada) , she was moving towards her peak performance at the time: At the 2004 Olympic Games , she won the silver medal in road racing . In the run-up to the Games, Arndt criticized the BDR's nomination decision for the Athens Games because the strong sprinter Petra Rossner had not been accepted into the team. Arndt showed her criticism with an ugly gesture at the finish of the race, which she finished in second place. She later apologized for her behavior.

In the same year Judith Arndt was road cycling world champion and vice-world champion in the individual time trial in Verona . At the end of the season, she took first place in the world rankings. In 2005 Arndt won the individual time trial at the German Championship in Schweinfurt . In 2007, 2008 and 2012 she was the overall winner of the Tour of Thuringia and the 2008 women's cycling world cup . In 2010 she won the title of vice world champion in the individual time trial in Geelong , and in the individual road race she was fifth. In the same year she won the Giro della Toscana Femminile .

In 2011 Arndt won her third world title. At the World Championships in Copenhagen she won the gold medal in the individual time trial. In the same year she won the Tour of New Zealand and the Giro del Trentino Alto Adige . In the individual time trial she again won the German championship title and finished second in the road race.

When she took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she won the silver medal in the individual time trial. At the World Championships in Valkenburg , she defended her title in the individual time trial. The subsequent road race, in which she finished eighth, was her last race as a professional athlete. She said she wanted to live and study in Australia in the future.

Teams

Saturn Cycling Team (2001-2002)
Nürnberger team (2003-2005)
T-Mobile women's team (2006-2007)
HTC Highroad Women (2008-2011)
GreenEdge AIS (2012)

Successes (excerpt)

Olympic games, world championships, world rankings
- 2004: Silver , 2004 Summer Olympics road race

Round trips

Winner "Thuringia Tour of Women" 2007, 2008 and 2012
Winner of the "Tour de Garonne" 1998
Winner of the "Tour de l'Aude" 2002 and 2003
2 times 3rd place overall “Tour de France for women” / FRA 2001/2003
Winner " Giro della Toscana " 2008
Winner " Tour of New Zealand Women "
Winner " Qatar Tour " 2012

German championship title

5 times track / single pursuit (1996-2000)
Railway - Omnium 2011
8 times individual time trial (road) (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012)
2 road races (2002, 2012)
2 times German Mountain Championship (1999, 2004)
Overall winner of the Women's Cycling Bundesliga 1999

Awards