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| {{Image|Neben0106_547.jpg|right|200px|Amber Neben atop the podium after her victory in the Burley to Magic Mountain road race (stage 8 of the 2001 Women's Challenge)}} | | {{Image|Neben0106_547.jpg|right|200px|Amber Neben atop the podium after her victory in the Burley to Magic Mountain road race (stage 8 of the 2001 Women's Challenge)}} |
| | | '''Amber Neben''' (born 18 February 1975 at [[Irvine, California]]) is an American [[cycling|cycle racer]] who won the [[Union Cycliste Internationale]] (UCI) [[World Time Trial Championship]] in 2008 and 2016. |
| '''Amber Neben''' (born: February 18, 1975) is an American cycle racer who won the World Time Trial Championshps in 2008. She was also the U.S. national road race champion in 2003 and is the only active American female cyclist to win multiple [[Union Cycliste Internationale|UCI]] category 1 stage races, having won the Gracia Tour in 2002, the Tour du Montreal in 2003 and the [[Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Feminin|Tour de l'Aude]] in 2005 and again in 2006. | |
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| ==Biography==
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| As a young junior in junior high and high school, Neben's principal athletic activities were centered around soccer and cross-country running. She attended the [[University of Nebraska]] on a track and cross-country scholarship, but developed [[stress fracture]]s from running. Forced to curtail her running activities, she became an undergraduate assistant coach with the distance running program. Only subsequently, after graduating from college, did she take up the sport of cycling.
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| Meanwhile, she graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and went on from there to obtain a Master's degree in biology from the University of California at Irvine.
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| Her initial foray into cycle racing was as a mountain bike racer. While concentrating on MTB racing for several years, Neben also participated in road cycle racing. It was in this latter discipline that she enjoyed her greatest successes. A major breakthrough occurred during the 2001 [[Women's Challenge]] race, where she won the Rupert to Pomerelle stage with its culminating long, steep climb to the finish, becoming only the 4th American to win a stage at the Women's Challenge since it became a UCI event.
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| Following this, she concentrated almost exclusively on road cycling, being selected to the Road World Championship team in both 2001 and 2002.
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| In 2003, following the Montreal [[World Cup of Road Cycling (women)|World Cup]] race, Neben tested positive for the banned substance [[19-norandrosterone]]. The actual test results were not reported and confirmed until after the Tour du Montreal, which she won. Neben chose to appeal the case to the [[Court of Arbitration for Sport]] and, in the meantime, accepted a provisional suspension which began in mid-July of 2003.
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| Neben claimed that the positive test result had occurred as the result of taking supplements which were contaminated with the banned substance. A formal hearing before the North American CAS Panel was held later that year and in a report issued in October of 2003, the Panel concluded that a doping violation had occurred, but further stated that it was not an intentional doping violation.
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| In a split decision, the Panel decided that Neben should be suspended for 6 months from any race activity dating back to the beginning of her voluntary withdrawal and, further, that she would be required to submit to regular doping tests over the following 18 months. There were other conditions imposed as well.<ref>On February 25, 2008, Amber Neben, along with two others, jointly filed suit in California Central District Court against Hammer Nutrition, Ltd, alleging that a nutritional supplement manufactured by Hammer was contaminated with quantities of a banned substance and that this was the cause of their positive doping tests.[http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-cacdce/case_no-8:2008cv00202/case_id-408932/] [http://www.triathletemag.com/Departments/Features/2007_Features/Rebekah_Keat__Mike_Vine_suing_Hammer_Nutrition.htm]</ref>
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| Neben was thus eligible to participate in sanctioned racing for the year 2004. In the U.S. Olympic Trials held in June of that year, she finished in 2nd place in the Time Trial, missing first place and a spot on the 2004 Olympic team by just 8 seconds.
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| In the Spring of 2005, Neben achieved her greatest success up to that point in her cycling career when she won the Tour de l'Aude ahead of a strong international field. In 2006, Neben repeated her stage race victory in the Tour de l'Aude.
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| After a very strong season in 2007 and the first half of 2008, in which she scored several more high finishes in international and national competition, Neben was named to the 2008 U.S. Olympic road cycling team where she will compete in the road race portion of the [[Olympic Games]] competition in [[Beijing]]. Later in the year, Ms. Neben won the World Time Trial Championships at Varese, Italy.
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| ==Palmares==
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| '''2012 (Team Specialized- Lululemon)'''
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| * Panamerican Championships - Individual Time Trial
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| * Vuelta El Salvador - stages 2 and 3b
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| * The Exergy Tour - stage 2
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| * National Championships - Individual Time Trial
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| * Chrono des Nations
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| '''2011 (HTC Highroad Women)'''
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| * GP Stad Roeselare
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| * Chrono des Nations
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| '''2010 (Webcor Builders Cycling Team)'''
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| * Tour Of New Zealand - stage 4
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| * Memorial Davide Fardelli
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| '''2009 (Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung)'''
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| * Gracia-Orlova - stage 3
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| * Tour de l'Aude - stage 3
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| * Giro Donne - stage 2
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| '''2008 (Flexpoint)'''
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| * World Championships - Individual Time Trial
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| * Tour Cycliste Féminin International Ardèche GC
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| '''2007 (Flexpoint)'''
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| * Final 2007 UCI points listing - 9th place
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| * World Championship Time Trial - 4th place
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| * Chrono-Champenois Time Trial (cat. .1) - 2nd place
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| * Route de France (cat. 1) - 1st place GC, 2 stage victories, Mountains jersey
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| * Thuringen Rundfahrt (cat. 1) - 2nd place GC
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| * U.S. National Championships (Time Trial - 2nd place; Road Race - 3rd place)
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| * Montreal World Cup - 9th place
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| * Tour de l'Aude (cat. 1) - 5th place GC
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| * Giro di San Marino (cat. 1) - 3rd place GC
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| * La Fleche Wallone World Cup - 4th place
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| * Redlands Bicycle Classic - 1st place GC, 1 stage victory
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| '''2006 (Buitenpoort - Flexpoint Team)'''
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| * UCI points list - 12th place
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| * World Championships (Road Race - 12th place; Time Trial - 10th place)
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| * La Route de France Feminin (cat. 2) - 2nd place GC
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| * L'Heure D'Or Feminin - 2nd place
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| * Thuringen-Rundfahrt stage race (cat. 1) - 2nd place GC
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| * U.S. National Championships (Time Trial - 2nd place; Road Race - 3rd place)
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| * Pan-Am Games Time Trial - 1st place
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| * Tour de l'Aude (cat. 1) - 1st place GC
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| * Gracia Tour (cat. 2) - 2nd place GC
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| * La Fleche Wallonne World Cup - 5th place
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| * Redlands Bicycle Classic - 1st place GC, 2 stage victories
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| '''2005 (Buitenpoort - Flexpoint Team)'''
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| * UCI Points list - 24th place
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| * World Time Trial Championships - 5th place
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| * [[Giro d'Italia Femminile]] (cat. 1)- 4th place GC
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| * U.S. National Time Trial Championships - 2nd place
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| * [[Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Feminin|Tour de l'Aude]] (cat. 1) - 1st place GC, stage victory
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| * [[Fleche Wallonne]] (Bel) World Cup - 9th place
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| '''2004 (T-Mobile Professional Cycling Team)'''
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| * Giro della Toscana (cat. 1) - 7th place GC, stage victory
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| * U.S. National Time Trial Championship - 2nd place
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| * Le Tour du Grand Montreal - 9th place GC
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| * Montreal (Can) World Cup - 5th place
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| '''2003 (Team T-Mobile)'''
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| * UCI Points List - 22nd place
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| * Le Tour du Montreal - 1st place GC
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| * U.S. National Road Race Championship - 1st place
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| * Gracia Tour - 4th place GC, stage victory
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| * [[Fleche Wallonne]] World Cup - 7th place
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| '''2002 (Cannondale)'''
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| * UCI Points List - 24th place
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| * [[Grande Boucle]] Féminine (cat. 1) - 9th place GC
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| * U.S. National Championships (Road Race - 2nd place; Time Trial - 2nd place)
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| * [[Women's Challenge]] (cat. 1) - 6th place GC
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| * Le Tour du Montréal (cat. 2) - 9th place GC
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| * Montréal (Can) World Cup - 10th place
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| * Housatonic Valley Classic - 2nd place
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| * Gracia Cez-Ede (cat. 1) - 1st place GC, Mountains jersey, 1 stage victory
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| * Vuelta a Castilla y Leon (cat. 2) - 4th place GC
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| * Sea Otter Classic - 9th place GC
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| '''2001'''
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| * GP Féminin International du Canada (cat. 2) - stage victory
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| * Tour de 'Toona - 6th place GC
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| * Cascade Cycling Classic - 1st place GC, 3 stage victories
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| * BMC Software Tour of Arlington - 5th place
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| * [[Women's Challenge]] (cat. 1) - 5th place GC, stage victory
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| * Big Bear Lake, CA (MTB National Championship Series) (Long Course Cross Country - 4th place)
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| * U.S. National Championships (Time Trial - 6th place; Road Race - 2nd place)
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| * California State TT Championships (cat I-III) - 1st place
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| * Redlands Bicycle Classic (cat. 2) - 10th place GC
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| * Valley of the Sun Stage Race - 4th place GC
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| ==Notes== | | ==Notes== |
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| ==External links==
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| *[http://www.amberneben.com/ Amber Neben's official web site]
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| *[http://www.buitenpoort-flexpoint-team.nl/ Amber Neben's team] (Dutch language)
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| *[http://www.usantidoping.org/files/active/arbitration_rulings/arbitration_ruling_10_21_2003_neben.pdf CAS arbitration ruling in Amber Neben case] (pdf file)
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| | [[Category:Cycling biographies]] |
