Romy Kasper

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Romy Kasper Road cycling
Romy Kasper (2017)
Romy Kasper (2017)
To person
Date of birth May 5, 1988
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Road / rail (endurance)
To the team
Current team Parkhotel Valkenburg
function driver
Most important successes
UEC European Championships
2019 bronze - Derny
Last updated: February 27, 2020
Romy Kasper at the International Women's Tour of Thuringia 2012

Romy Kasper (born May 5, 1988 in Forst ) is a German racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Romy Kasper has been a professional cyclist since 2008. In 2010 she was fourth in the European Championship (youngsters) in road racing . In 2011 she finished eighth overall in the Tour of Chongming Island ; in September of the same year she was nominated by the Association of German Cyclists for the 2011 UCI Road World Championships .

In 2011 and 2012 Kasper finished ninth in the overall ranking of the Tour of Chongming Island , in 2012 she was also ninth on the Energiewacht Tour and finished third in the Giro della Toscana Femminile . In 2013 she was third in the road race at the German road championships. In 2014 she decided one stage of the Thuringia Tour for herself. Two years later she was part of the Boels Dolmans team , which won the team time trial of the Healthy Aging Tour . She herself took second place in the overall ranking of the Tour of Qatar .

In 2017 Romy Kasper started at the European Railway Championships in Berlin. In the scratch race , she fell and suffered broken ribs and a bruised lung. In January 2018, she fell again at the Berlin six-day race when she was innocent in the two-man team race with Lisa Küllmer . She broke two ribs in the process. In June she fell again on the Women's Tour and suffered a severe concussion; In total, she fell and was injured six times since October 2017. Also shaken by the serious accident of track cyclist Kristina Vogel , she decided to take a longer break from racing.

Romy Kasper only started racing again in January 2019. At the Dutch Healthy Aging Tour she came second in the second stage. At the Derny European Championship , which was also held for women for the first time in 2019 , she won the bronze medal behind pacemaker Peter Bäuerlein .

successes

2011
2014
2016
2019

Teams

Web links

Commons : Romy Kasper  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kasper was also seriously injured by a fall at the European Championships. In: rad-net.de. October 24, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  2. ^ Romy Kasper fell badly in Berlin. In: lr-online.de. January 28, 2018, accessed June 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ Cyclist Romy Kasper takes a break. In: rbb24. July 4, 2018, accessed November 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kasper, Romy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest