cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Former world time trial champion Amber Neben has been cleared to resume riding after a four-week rest to recover from a broken hand sustained at this year's world road race championship. The American will now be able to prepare for the upcoming season with the former Equipe Nürnberger, now Skyter team, alongside the team's new recruit, Olympic champion Nicole Cooke. "I'm looking forward...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Riding the momentum of Kristin Armstrong’s gold-medal performance at Wednesdays’ world time trial championship, the U.S. women’s road team is hoping to extract a little more hardware out of the UCI world road championship on Saturday. The six-woman team includes Armstrong and Amber Neben, who have collectively claimed the world TT title for three of the past four years. Rounding out...
USA Cycling (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
The 2009 UCI Road World Championships started off with a bang for the United States with Kristin Armstonrg earning her second world title in the women's time trial on Wednesday. Armstrong's time trial gold gave the United States its third world championships in the event in the last four years. Defending world champion Amber Neben finished sixth while Jessica Phillips was 14th. Tejay Van Garderen wast...
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Elite Men Tom Danielson (Durango, Colo./Garmin-Slipstream)– Road Race and Time Trial Tyler Farrar (Wenatchee, Wash./Garmin-Slipstream) – Road Race Brent Bookwalter (Lookout Mountain, Ga./BMC Racing Team) – Road Race Jeff Louder (Salt Lake City, Utah/BMC) – Road Race Craig Lewis (Greenville, S.C./Columbia-High Road)– Road Race Andrew Bajadali (Boulder, Colo./Kelly Benefit...
USA Cycling (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
It was an excellent week for USA Cycling's Development Programs, with the highlight coming from USA Cycling National Development Team rider Tejay Van Garderen who rode to second-place overall in the Tour de L'Avenir after grabbing three top-ten stage finishes. Amber Neben represented the U.S. National Team with a fifth-place overall result in the Tour Cycliste Feminin International Ardeche in France...
USA Cycling (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
USA Cycling announced today the elite women that will represent the United States at the 2009 UCI Road World Championships, Sept. 23-27 in Mendriso, Switzerland. Leading the women's team for 2009 will be defending time trial world champion, Amber Neben, and Olympic gold medalist and three-time time trial world champion, Kristin Armstrong. USA Cycling will announce the elite and U23 men's squads for...
USA Cycling (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
USA Cycling's Development Programs yielded four, top-five finishes abroad over the weekend. Ryan Eastman and Anders Newbury scored second- and third-place finishes in a criterium in Belgium while U23 rider Peter Stetina rode to second place in stage four of the Tour de L'Avenir. On the women's side, Amber Neben made the second-place effort in Italy's Memorial Davide Fardelli.
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung will have a new sponsor next season, Skyter Shipping. The international yacht company will take over sponsorship of the women's team as of January 1, the team announced Tuesday at a press conference in Nürnberg, Germany. Nürnberger Versicherung, a German insurance company, has sponsored the women's team for ten years. This year's team features time trial...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Achilles had his heel, and Amber Neben has her index finger. The reigning time trial world champion, who lives in Irvine, California, has spent the last month recovering from injuries suffered July 8 at Italy’s Giro Donne, otherwise known as the women’s Giro d’Italia. The day after taking the leader’s jersey, Neben crashed on the third stage of the 10-day race while speeding...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 05/20/2009
American Kristin Armstrong won the fifth stage of the Tour de l’Aude Féminin on Wednesday, outsprinting her breakaway companions Amber Neben and Grace Verbeke. Olympic champion Armstrong (Cervelo TestTeam) and world TT champ Neben (Nurnberger Versicherung) are the best-placed Americans in the prestigious 10-day race. After Wednesday's stage, Armstrong moved into fourth place, 1:15 behind...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 05/19/2009
Regina Bruins (Cervelo TestTeam), a 22-year-old Dutch rider, took the lead of the Tour de l'Aude Tuesday, after finishing fourth in a four-woman breakaway that came in more than two minutes ahead of the overnight race leader, American Amber Neben. The stage was won by multi-discipline world champion Marianne Vos, also from the Netherlands. Britain's Nicole Cooke was second and Germany's Claudio Hausler...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
Columbia-Highroad’s Ina-Yoko Teutenberg on Monday took her second win in this year's Tour de l'Aude — her 17th career win in the French stage race. American Amber Neben (Nurnberger Versicherung) maintained her overall lead in the 10-day race, which has one more day of relatively flat racing before hitting the mountains on Wednesday. Teutenberg avoided a last-kilometer crash to come away...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
American Amber Neben, riding for the German team Nürnberger Versicherung, took the lead of the Tour de l’Aude Féminin on Sunday after her team won the 27km team time trial. Neben, the reigning world time trial champion, won the 10-day stage race overall title in 2005 and 2006. In 2005 Neben won the title by just one second ahead of Trixi Worrack. This time, Worrack is Neben's teammate...
USA Cycling (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
The 2008 UCI Road World Championships continued on Saturday with the elite women's road race as Amber Neben was the top U.S. finisher in 22nd place. Neben crossed the finish line as part of a 30-woman pack that was attempting to close the gap to a lead group of five riders which materialized on the final lap. Kristin Armstrong finished 39th after spending the entire day at the front of an early-race...
ABC (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
American cyclist Amber Neben claimed an emphatic victory in the women's time trial at the world road championships in Varese, Italy as the favourites fell away.
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