Evelyn Stevens
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| Full name | Evelyn Stevens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 9, 1983 Claremont, California | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) (2012)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Boels–Dolmans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2010-2011 | HTC Columbia Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012-2014 | Team Specialized-lululemon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015- | Boels–Dolmans[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Evelyn Stevens (born May 9, 1983) is an American professional road cyclist riding for Boels–Dolmans.[3] She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, finishing 24th.[4] On 27 February 2016 Stevens rode the current UCI Hour record for women at the Colorado Springs Velodrome in Colorado, United States with a distance of 47.980 km.[5] She broke the record set January 22 by Australian Bridie O'Donnell in Adelaide, Australia by 1.1 km. [6][7]
Early life
Stevens was born in Claremont, California but grew up in Acton, Massachusetts,[8] where she attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School.[9] She studied government and women and gender studies at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and was a member of the college's tennis team.[10]
After graduating in 2005[8] she moved to New York City where she worked for Lehman Brothers for two years, then for mezzanine fund Gleacher Mezzanine before quitting in July 2009 to take up cycling full-time.[11]
Palmarès
Source:[12]
- 2008
- 1st Green Mountain Stage Race Cat 3/4 Women
- 2009
- 1st Overall Tour of the Battenkill
- 1st Overall Jiminy Peak
- 1st Overall Bear Mountain
- 1st Overall Housatonic Hills
- 1st Overall Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
- 1st Overall Cascade Classic
- 2nd Overall La Route de France
- 2nd National Time Trial Championships
- 2010
- 1st
National Time Trial Championships - 1st Stage 7 Giro Donne[13]
- 1st Stage 6 Nature Valley Grand Prix
- 1st Stage 3 Redlands Classic
- 2011
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 2012
- 1st World Championship, Team Time Trial (together with Ellen van Dijk, Charlotte Becker, Amber Neben, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and Trixi Worrack)
- 1st
Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand - 1st Overall Gracia-Orlova
- 1st Overall Exergy Tour[14]
- 1st
Overall Route de France
- 1st stages 7 & 9
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 2nd World Individual Time Trial
- 3rd Overall Giro Donne
- 1st stage 3
- 2013
- 1st World Championship, Team Time Trial (together with Ellen van Dijk, Carmen Small, Katie Colclough, Lisa Brennauer and Trixi Worrack)
- 1st Giro del Trentino
- 1st Overall Parx Philly Classic
- 1st Amgen Tour of California Women’s Time Trial
- 1st Merco Cycling Classic
- 2nd Overall Gracia-Orlová
- 1st Stage 1
- 4th World Championship, Individual Time Trial
- 5th World Championship, Road Race
- 2014
- 1st Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Overall Holland Ladies Tour
- 1st Overall Parx Philly Classic
- 1st World Championship, Team Time Trial (together with Carmen Small, Lisa Brennauer, Chantal Blaak, Karol-Ann Conuel, and Trixi Worrack)
- 3rd, World Championship, Individual Time Trial
- 2015
- 1st Amgen Tour of California Women’s Time Trial
- 3rd Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand
- 1st Stage 1 (Team Time Trial)
- 6th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 2016
- UCI Hour record: 47.980 km
- 2nd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
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Stevens won with Specialized–lululemon the team time trial at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships.
References
- 1 2 "Athletes: Evelyn Stevens". london2012.com. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ↑ Nagel, Maxwell (12 December 2014). "Specialized, Evelyn Stevens move to Boels-Dolmans women’s cycling team in 2015". VeloNews. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ "Stevens at Procyclingstats.com". Procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ "London 2012 results".
- ↑ Kirsten Frattini. "Evelyn Stevens Hour Record Attempt 2016: Results - Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ McMahon, Daniel (February 27, 2016). "Evelyn Stevens sets new cycling hour record". Business Insider.
- ↑ McMahon, Daniel (February 27, 2016). "A former Wall Street analyst just set a new world hour record in cycling". Business Insider. Retrieved February 29, 2016 – via Yahoo.com.
- 1 2 "Evelyn Stevens". USA Cycling. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ↑ Klajman, Ed (August 6, 2012). "Evelyn Stevens relishes Olympic experience". Wicked Local Acton.
- ↑ "Catching up with rising star Evelyn Stevens". VeloNews. July 14, 2009.
- ↑ Albergotti, Reed (August 10, 2009). "Cycling’s One-in-a-Million Story: Overworked Wall Streeter Buys a Bike to Stay Fit, Discovers an Elite Talent". Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ Evelyn Stevens profile at Cycling Archives
- ↑ Atkins, Ben (July 8, 2010). "Evelyn Stevens solos over Ghisallo to take Giro Donne stage seven". velonation.com.
- ↑ "Evelyn Stevens wins Exergy Tour". espn.go.com. May 28, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
External links
- Profile at Team Specialized-lululemon
- Profile at cqranking.com
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