Amber Neben
 Neben during the 2016 Giro d'Italia Femminile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Amber Leone Neben | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 18, 1975 Irvine, California, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) (2008)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2001 | Autotrader.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Webcor Builders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | FCS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Visit Dallas Cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002 | Cannondale–USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Team T-Mobile | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Buitenpoort–Flexpoint[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Nürnberger[3][4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | HTC–Highroad Women | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Pasta Zara–Cogeas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | BePink–La Classica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Team VéloCONCEPT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Cogeas–Mettler–Look[5][6] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amber Leone Neben (born February 18, 1975)[2] is an American racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team Cogeas–Mettler–Look.[7] Neben won the UCI world time trial championship in 2008 and 2016 as well as the U.S. national road race championship in 2003[8] and 2017.
Career
[edit]Early life
[edit]At the age of four Neben survived a bout of spinal meningitis, which left her in a coma for three days. Doctors told her parents that she was unlikely to survive, and that if she did, she would probably have endured brain damage and have lost her hearing.[9] Neben played soccer and ran cross-country in junior high and high school. She attended the University of Nebraska on a track and cross-country scholarship. Stress fractures stopped her running and she became an undergraduate assistant coach in distance running. She took up cycling after graduating from college with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. She then obtained a master's degree in biology from the University of California, Irvine, having originally commenced studies for a PhD. Whilst she was at UC Irvine she scored a top 10 finish at the national collegiate cycling championships, which persuaded her to exit with her master's degree and focus on professional cycling.[9]
Professional career
[edit]She concentrated first on mountain biking but her greatest success was on the road. She won the Rupert to Pomerelle stage of the 2001 Women's Challenge race with its long, steep climb to the finish, the fourth American to win a stage at the Women's Challenge since it became a UCI event. She then concentrated on road cycling and was picked for the road world championship team in 2001 and 2002.
Neben raced again in 2004. She missed placing first by eight seconds in the time trial selection race for the Olympic Games. In spring 2005, she won the Tour de l'Aude in France. She won again in 2006. She was picked for the 2008 U.S. Olympic team and came 33rd in the road race event in Beijing.[10] Later in 2008 she became the World TT Champion.[11]
Neben made the 2012 U.S. Olympic team for the Women's road race, along with Kristin Armstrong, Shelley Olds and Evelyn Stevens. In the Women's time trial she finished 7th.
Doping suspension
[edit]Neben tested positive for the banned substance 19-Norandrosterone on May 31, 2003, after she won the Coupe du Monde Montreal World Cup race. The test results were not confirmed until after her "A" sample and "B" sample both returned 6.9 ng/ml, which is above the 5 ng/ml cutoff. Neben appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport [CAS] and accepted a provisional suspension from mid-July 2003. Neben said the positive test came from contaminated supplements. As she was a member of the T-Mobile Women's Cycling Team, a trade team owned by USA Cycling, she enlisted USA Cycling top management as witnesses in her defense. Sean Petty, VP of Marketing of USA Cycling, Gerard Bisceglia, CEO for USA Cycling, Steve Johnson, COO and director of athletics for USA Cycling, Bob Stapleton, Vice Chair for T-Mobile USA all testified on her behalf. The North American CAS ruled in October 2003 that doping had occurred but that it was not intentional. Neben was suspended, in a split decision, for six months, starting from the provisional ban beginning on July 13, 2003. The ruling also stated that all competitive results which occurred on or after May 31, 2003 were cancelled. Therefore, her win at the Coupe du Monde Montreal on May 31 was cancelled, but not her Elite Women's Road Race National Title, which occurred on May 22. She would have to be tested for drugs regularly for the following 18 months.[12]
Personal life
[edit]She is married to Jason K. Neben, associate vice president of Data and Technology, and Founding Chair of the Data Governance Committee at Concordia University Irvine.[9]
In 2007, she underwent a successful program of treatment for melanoma.[9]
Major results
[edit]- 2001
- 1st Time trial, California State Road Championships
- 1st Overall Cascade Cycling Classic
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
- 1st Stage 1 GP Féminin International du Canada
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 5th Overall Women's Challenge
- 1st Stage 1
- 10th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 2002
- 1st Overall Gracia–Orlová
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Stage 3
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 2nd Housatonic Valley Classic
- 6th Overall Women's Challenge
- 9th Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
- 10th Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal
- 2003
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race - 3rd Time trial
- 1st
1st Overall Tour du Grand Montréal- 4th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 4th Overall Sea Otter Classic
- 4th Overall Gracia–Orlová
- 7th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 7th Tour de Berne
- 2004
- 1st Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 5th Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal
- 7th Overall Giro della Toscana
- 1st Stage 2
- 9th Overall Tour du Grand Montréal
- 2005
- 1st Overall Tour de l'Aude
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 4th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 9th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 2006
- 1st
Time trial, Pan American Road Championships - 1st Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
- 1st Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 2
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 2nd Overall Gracia–Orlová
- 2nd La Route de France
- 2nd L'Heure D'Or Feminin
- 5th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2007
- 1st Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 1st Overall La Route de France
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 2nd Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen
- 3rd Overall Giro di San Marino
- 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 4th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 5th Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
- 9th Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal
- 2008
- 1st
Time trial, UCI Road World Championships - 1st Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 3rd Grand Prix de Suisse
- 3rd Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen
- 5th Overall Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira
- 5th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 5th Memorial Davide Fardelli
- 5th Chrono des Nations
- 8th Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
- 2009
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT) Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 2nd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 2nd Memorial Davide Fardelli
- 4th Overall Gracia–Orlová
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 4th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 5th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 6th Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT)
- 9th Liberty Classic
- 10th Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal
- 2010
- 1st Memorial Davide Fardelli
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 2nd Chrono des Nations
- 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 4th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Prologue
- 6th Chrono Champenois
- 7th Chrono Gatineau
- 2011
- 1st GP Stad Roeselare
- 1st Chrono des Nations
- 1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 2nd Chrono Champenois
- 3rd
Time trial, Pan American Road Championships - 3rd Chrono Gatineau
- 3rd Memorial Davide Fardelli
- 8th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2012
- UCI Road World Championships
- 1st
Team time trial (with Ellen van Dijk, Charlotte Becker, Evelyn Stevens, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and Trixi Worrack) - 4th Road race
- 7th Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
- 1st Chrono des Nations
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Holland Ladies Tour
- 3rd Grand Prix el Salvador
- 3rd Chrono Gatineau
- 4th Overall Vuelta a El Salvador
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Stages 2 & 3b (ITT)
- 6th Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
- 7th Time trial, Summer Olympics
- 2013
- 6th Grand Prix de Oriente
- 6th Chrono des Nations
- 8th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 2014
- 2nd Overall Cascade Cycling Classic
- 2015
- 1st
Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 2nd Overall La Route de France
- 2nd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 2nd Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
- 3rd Overall Cascade Cycling Classic
- 3rd Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite
- 4th Tour of California Women's Time Trial
- 4th Chrono Champenois
- 4th Chrono des Nations
- 7th Chrono Gatineau
- 2016
- 1st Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Overall La Route de France
- 1st Stages 4 (ITT) & 5
- 1st Chrono Gatineau
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 4th Chrono Champenois
- 2017
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 3rd Chrono Gatineau
- 2018
- 1st Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Chrono Gatineau
- 1st Chrono Kristin Armstrong
- 7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2019
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Chrono Gatineau
- 2nd
Time trial, Pan American Road Championships - 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2020
- 6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2021
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 5th Time trial, Summer Olympics
- 2022
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd Chrono des Nations
- 2023
- 1st Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
- 2nd Chrono Féminin de la Gatineau
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 5th Chrono des Nations
- 8th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2024
- 1st Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
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Major championship results
[edit]| Event | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
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 Olympic Games
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Time trial | Not held | — | Not held | — | Not held | 7 | Not held | — | Not held | 5 | Not held | — | ||||||||||||
| Road race | — | 33 | 36 | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||
 World Championships
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Time trial | — | 15 | — | — | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 7 | — | — | — | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | — | 8 | 10 |
| Road race | 30 | DNF | — | 46 | 33 | 12 | 16 | 22 | DNF | 17 | 73 | 4 | — | — | — | 98 | 73 | — | — | 69 | — | — | — | — | |
| Team time trial | Did not exist | 1 | — | — | — | 4 | 5 | — | Not held | ||||||||||||||||
 National Championships
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Time Trial | — | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Road Race | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 5 | 3 | 3 | 14 | — | — | 9 | 7 | — | — | 4 | 21 | 1 | 9 | 14 | — | 7 | — | 13 | — | |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Amber Neben". Yahoo!. Retrieved August 11, 2008.
- ^ a b c "Amber Neben Team Profile". Team Flexpoint. Archived from the original on August 8, 2008. Retrieved August 8, 2008.
- ^ "Amber Neben – Team". AmberNeben.com. Retrieved March 30, 2009.
- ^ Dreier, Fred (March 26, 2009). "Amber Neben, Ben Day win the prologue at Redlands". VeloNews. Archived from the original on March 29, 2009. Retrieved March 30, 2009.
- ^ "Organico di 15 atlete per la Cogeas-Mettler con Olga Zabelinskaya e Amber Neben" [Roster of 15 athletes for Cogeas-Mettler with Olga Zabelinskaya and Amber Neben]. Cicloweb.it (in Italian). Cicloweb. January 2, 2019. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
- ^ "Our Team". Cogeas–Mettler–Look. Cogeas. Archived from the original on January 22, 2020. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
- ^ "Cogeas Mettler Look Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on January 30, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
- ^ "www.cyclingnews.com - the world centre of cycling". autobus.cyclingnews.com. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Amber Neben". USA Cycling. Archived from the original on June 2, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
- ^ "Cycling – Women's Road Race". Yahoo!. Retrieved August 11, 2008.
- ^ "Neben wins élite women's time trial world championship". USA Cycling. Archived from the original on September 30, 2008. Retrieved September 2, 2008.
- ^ "Arbitration Ruling: U.S. Cyclist Neben Receives Six-Month Suspension" (PDF). usada.org. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
- ^ "www.cyclingnews.com - the world centre of cycling". autobus.cyclingnews.com. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
External links
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- Official website
- Amber Neben's team (in English and Dutch)
- CAS arbitration ruling in Amber Neben case (pdf file)
- Daily Peloton interview
- Amber Neben at UCI
- Amber Neben at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Amber Neben at ProCyclingStats
- Amber Neben at Cycling Quotient
- Amber Neben at CycleBase
 UCI Road World Champions – Women's time trial | |
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- American female cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for the United States
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
- University of California, Irvine alumni
- UCI Road World Champions (women)
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Irvine, California
- Sportspeople from California
- Doping cases in cycling
- American sportspeople in doping cases
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Cyclists from California