Fiona Kolbinger

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Fiona Kolbinger (born 24 May 1995) is a German ultra-endurance cyclist and medical doctor. She was the winner of the Transcontinental Race in 2019 [1] winning in a time of 10 days 2 hours and 48 minutes with an advance of more than ten hours over the second closest, Ben Davies. [2] [3] She was the first woman to ever win the race, beating a field of over 224 men and 40 women. [4]

Fiona Kolbinger studied medicine at Heidelberg University and is an alumna of the German Cancer Research Center, where she was a doctoral student in the field of paediatric oncology. [5] [6] [7]

Since 2019, she is a surgical resident at the department for visceral, thoracic and vascular surgery at the University Hospital, Technical University Dresden. [8] [9]

She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2019. [10]

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