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Full name | Ina-Yoko Teutenberg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1974-10-28) 28 October 1974 (age 49) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Lidl–Trek | ||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Rider type | Sprinter[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2000 | Red Bull Frankfurt | ||||||||||||||||||||
2001–2003 | Saturn Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||||||||
2005–2013 | Team T-Mobile Women | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2014–2015 | USA Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||
2016–2018 | Rally Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||
2019– | Trek–Segafredo | ||||||||||||||||||||
2019– | USA Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (born 28 October 1974) is a German former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2000 and 2013 for the Red Bull Frankfurt, Saturn Cycling Team and Specialized–lululemon teams. She took over 200 wins during her career, including 11 stages of the Giro Rosa, the 2009 Tour of Flanders, and being part of the Team Specialized–lululemon team that won the World Team Time Trial Championship in 2012.[1] She now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Women's Team Lidl–Trek.[1]
Born in Düsseldorf, West Germany, Teutenberg began racing bicycles at age 6, alongside her two brothers Sven Teutenberg and Lars Teutenberg. She competed for Germany at the 2000 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Teutenberg retired from competition in 2013, after suffering concussion in a serious accident that year.
After her retirement, she worked with USA Cycling on a temporary basis, directing their junior men's and women's programmes in Europe, before co-directing Rally Cycling's women's team. In August 2018, Trek Bicycle Corporation announced that Teutenberg would be appointed as head director of their new women's team, Trek–Segafredo, for its debut in 2019.[1] On 30 May 2019 it was announced that Teutenberg would become the Women's Road Sports Director for the World Championships and Olympic Games, starting her role at the World Championships that year.[2]
She was one of 23 openly LGBT Olympians at the London Games.[3]