Lisa Brennauer (born 8 June 1988) is a German former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2022, [5] for six different teams.
On the track, Brennauer won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's team pursuit with Mieke Kröger, Lisa Klein and Franziska Brauße, setting the new world record. [6] She also won two gold medals at the 2021 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, [7] and four gold medals over three different UEC European Track Championships. On the road, Brennauer formed part of three consecutive team time trial world championship victories between 2013 and 2015, [5] and also won world titles in the individual time trial in 2014, [8] and the mixed team relay in 2021. [5] Brennauer also won nine national road titles during her career – five in the time trial and four in the road race – as well as several stage races such as The Women's Tour, the Holland Ladies Tour, the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs, the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen (twice) and the Challenge by La Vuelta (twice). [9]
Source: [10]
Stage race results timeline | |||||||||||||||||||
Grand Tour | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
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Giro d'Italia Femminile | — | — | — | — | — | — | 59 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 45 | 19 | — | ||
Stage race | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs | — | — | — | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | NH | — | — | ||
Tour of California | Did not exist | 49 | 27 | — | — | 38 | Not held | ||||||||||||
Emakumeen Euskal Bira | — | — | 38 | — | 33 | 38 | 30 | 14 | 18 | — | — | — | 21 | — | Not held | ||||
Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol | — | — | — | — | — | 22 | 22 | 41 | — | — | — | — | Did not exist | ||||||
The Women's Tour | Did not exist | 16 | 1 | DNF | 22 | 30 | 20 | NH | — | — | |||||||||
Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen | DNF | — | 58 | — | 13 | 33 | — | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 9 | NH | 13 | 36 | ||
Belgium Tour | Did not exist | 3 | 2 | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | NH | — | — | |||||||
Ladies Tour of Norway | Did not exist | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | NH | — | NH | |||||||||
Holland Ladies Tour | — | — | — | — | 32 | 12 | — | 15 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 28 | 8 | NH | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
NH | Not held |
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