Werner Riebenbauer

Werner Riebenbauer (born July 7, 1974 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian professional cyclist.

Werner Riebenbauer in August 2007

Career

Riebenbauer has been one of the best road cyclists in the country since the early 2000s . The sprint specialist got his first professional contract with the Nürnberger team and moved to Denmark in 2003 to the facta team and in 2006 to the Volksbank-Vorarlberg team . From 2008 he drove in the Continental Team RC Arbö Resch & Frisch Gourmetfein Wels .

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , Riebenbauer and Roland Garber finished fifth in the two-man team . In the same year he became Austrian national road racing champion .

In November 2012, Riebenbauer announced his withdrawal from professional sport. In the meantime he worked in the sales of the bicycle shop in Vienna that Bernhard Kohl opened in 2010. His nephew is the racing cyclist Matthias Riebenbauer .

Sporting successes

2012

• one stage tour of Slovakia
• Sprint classification Istrian Spring Trophy

2009

• Cherry blossom race catfish
• a stage Tobago International

2008

• a stage tour of Styria

2002

• one stage of the International Peace Tour

2001

• Sprint evaluation Austria Tour
• a stage Vuelta a Murcia
• one stage tour of Austria

2000

• Austrian champions - road races

Teams

• 2001–2002 Team Nürnberger
• 2003–2005 Team fact
• 2006–2007 Volksbank-Vorarlberg
• 2008–2012 RC Arbö Resch & Frisch Gourmetfein Wels

Web links

• Werner Riebenbauer in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Werner Riebenbauer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "RIBI" GETS OFF THE ROAD BIKE (November 5, 2012)
2. ↑ Since the beginning of 2017, he and Roland and Doris Wagner have been running the Speed ​​Planet Giant / Liv Radstore directly on the Danube Cycle Path in Klosterneuburg