Kathrin Hammes

Kathrin Hammes
	Kathrin Hammes (2018)
To person
Date of birth	January 9, 1989
nation	Germany
discipline	Road , rail
To the team
Current team	Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling Team
function	driver
Societies)
2005-2014	RSG Heinrich Böll Comprehensive School, Cologne
Team (s)
2015–2017 ; 2018 ; 2019 ; 2020	TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank ; Trek-Drops ; WNT Rotor Pro Cycling Team ; Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling Team
Most important successes
	2019 overall ranking of the Thuringia Tour
	Last updated: February 8, 2020

Kathrin Hammes (born January 9, 1989 in Cologne ) is a German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2012 Kathrin Hammes became German runner-up in the team pursuit on the track together with Verena Jooss and Mieke Kröger ; in the single pursuit , she finished tenth. In 2014 she won a stage of the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche . In July 2014, it won at the World University Championships in Poland Jelenia Góra gold in the road race and silver in the individual time trial .

Hammes has competed in the Rad-Bundesliga races since 2007 . In 2010 it was fifth overall, third in 2011, second in 2012 and fifth in 2014.

In November 2014, Kathrin Hammes, who studied sociology at the University of Freiburg , was named "University Athlete of the Year" by the General German University Sports Association. After completing her studies, she signed a contract with the US cycling team TIBCO-svb in 2015 .

In 2018 Hammes switched to the British team Trek-Drops . In the same year she finished 22nd overall at the Giro d'Italia Femminile and was 53rd in the road race of the European Road Championships . The following year she rode for WNT-Rotor Pro Cycling and won the International Thuringia Tour for Women .