Katarzyna Niewiadoma
![]() Niewiadoma at the 2018 Flèche Wallonne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Katarzyna Niewiadoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Limanowa, Poland | 29 September 1994||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Canyon–SRAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Climbing specialist[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2009-2012 | WLKS Krakus BBC Czaja | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | TKK Pacific Toruń | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2013 | → Rabobank–Liv Giant (Stagiaire) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2017 | Rabo–Liv | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018– | Canyon–SRAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Katarzyna "Kasia" Niewiadoma (born 29 September 1994) is a Polish racing cyclist for Canyon–SRAM,[2][3] She is a under-23 champion and a national champion in both the road race and time trial events.
Early years
Niewiadoma started racing bikes with local club WLKS Krakus BBC Czaja and soon emerged as one of the most promising women riders in Poland. In 2013, she won two national U-23 champion titles, finishing 4th in both the elite time-trial and elite road race. She also finished 5th in European Road Championships in the women's U-23 road race.
Following these performances, she received an offer from professional team Rabobank-Liv/giant and became a stagiaire in August 2013. She participated in the Boels Ladies Tour, finishing 10th overall and winning the young rider classification. Niewiadoma was also selected for the UCI Road World Championships but she didn't finish the elite women's race.[4]
Professional career
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2014
Niewiadoma signed a one-year contract with the Dutch team in October 2013 and made her debut in professional ranks in February 2014. She took her first victory four months later, winning the Swiss race GP Gippingen. Preparing for Giro d'Italia Femminile, Niewiadoma participated in the Polish National Championships, taking bronze in the elite women's time trial and finishing 8th in the road. Her climbing abilities proved to be an asset for Rabo-Liv team, as she worked for the final victory of Marianne Vos on the mountain stages in Italian Alps. She finished 11th overall and 3rd in the young riders classification, marking a successful debut in the biggest race of the elite women's calendar in her first year as a professional.
Niewiadoma then went on to take her first podium spot in a stage race. Together with Anna van der Breggen and Vos she dominated racing during the 1st edition of Ladies Tour of Norway and placed 3rd, winning best young rider classification and best climber standings. In September, she signed a two-year contract extension with Rabo Liv team and concluded preparations for World Championships with the start in Premondiale Giro della Toscana, placing 8th overall. On a hilly route in Ponferrada she led the Polish team in the women's elite road race, coming to the finish in 11th place after a sprint from the selected group.[5]
2015
In her second year as a professional Niewiadoma shone as one of the best young riders in the peloton, giving Poland results it has never had in its history of women's cycling. She once again demonstrated her climbing abilities with 6th place in the inaugural edition of Strade Bianche Donne and 5th in the prestigious World Cup race La Flèche Wallonne Féminine. She also took a podium spot in the Dutch race Boels Rental Hills Classic, finishing behind Elizabeth Armitstead and Emma Johansson. In June she won Emakumeen Euskal Bira, a five-day stage race in Basque Country, and won silver in the elite women's road race at the European Games.
Despite being only 21, Niewiadoma started season's biggest race - Giro Rosa - as one of Rabo Liv's leaders. She quickly assumed lead in young riders classification and hold on to the top places on the mountain stages. She then clocked 5th time on a demanding route of stage 8, 21.7 kilometer long time trial, and climbed up to 4th overall with just one mountaintop finish to go. Long climb to San Domenico di Varzo proved decisive and Niewiadoma crossed the line in 7th, finishing 5th overall, winning white jersey for best young rider and celebrating Anna van der Breggen's overall success. With those results under her belt Niewiadoma led the Polish national team at European Road Championships in Tartu and took gold in women U23 road race, bridging to the leading group on the last lap and claiming the sprint ahead of Italy's Ilaria Sanguineti and fellow Rabo Liv rider Thalita de Jong. She concluded the season during World Championships in Richmond, being a part of a Rabo-LIv squad that secured bronze in team time trial event. She also led Polish team in elite women road race and sprinted to 7th place.
Major results
- 2011
- 1st Klomnice Road Race
- UEC European Junior Road Championships
- 8th Road Race
- 10th Time Trial
- 9th Klomnice Time Trial
- 2012
- 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 7th Klomnice Time Trial
- 8th Klomnice Road Race
- 2013
- 1st Polish Mountain Road Championship
- 2nd Overall Langenloiser Radrenntage (ARBO Cup)
- 3rd Klomnice Road Race
- 3rd Klomnice Time Trial
- 4th Overall Górski Walbrzyski Wyscig Kolarski
- National Road Championships
- 4th Road race
- 4th Time trial
- 4th Cup of poland - Postomino (ITT)
- 5th Road race, UEC European Under–23 Road Championships
- 7th Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
- 10th Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2014
- 1st Grand Prix Gippingen
- 1st Frauen Prolog Grand Prix Gippingen
- 3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- National Road Championships
- 3rd Time Trial
- 8th Road Race
- 8th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
- 8th Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
- 9th Omloop van het Hageland
- 2015
- UEC European Under–23 Road Championships
- 1st
Road Race - 5th Time Trial
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira - 2nd Road race, European Games
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time Trial
- 4th Road Race
- 2nd Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
- 3rd Boels Rental Hills Classic
- UCI Road World Championships
- 3rd Team Time Trial
- 7th Road Race
- 5th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 5th Overall Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour
- 5th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 6th Strade Bianche
- 2016
- 1st
Road race, UEC European Under–23 Road Championships - National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race - 1st
Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Ronde van Gelderland
- 2nd UEC European Cycling Championships
- 2nd Strade Bianche
- 4th GP de Plouay–Bretagne
- 4th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 5th Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
- 1st Stages 3 & 6
- 6th Road Race, Olympic Games
- 7th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 7th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
- 8th Giro dell'Emilia
- 8th Team Time Trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 10th Tour of Flanders
- 2017
- 1st
Overall The Women's Tour- 1st Stage 1
- 1st
Combativity classification, Stage 6 Holland Ladies Tour - 2nd Strade Bianche
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes
- 3rd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 5th Road Race, UCI Road World Championships
- 6th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 7th Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
- 8th Tour of Flanders
- 8th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
- 9th Dwars door Vlaanderen Femmes
- 9th La Course by Le Tour de France
- 2018
- 1st
Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st
Combination classification - 1st Stage 5
- 1st
- 1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 2nd Strade Bianche
- 3rd Overall Tour of California
Results timelines
Stage race results timeline | |||||||||
Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |||
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Giro d'Italia Femminile | — | 11 | 5 | 7 | 6 | ||||
Stage race | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |||
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs | — | 27 | 14 | 1 | — | — | |||
Tour of California | DNE | — | — | — | 3 | ||||
Emakumeen Euskal Bira | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | |||
Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol | DNF | — | — | 1 | — | ||||
The Women's Tour | DNE | — | — | — | 1 | ||||
Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour | — | — | 5 | — | — | ||||
Ladies Tour of Norway | — | 3 | 15 | — | 15 | ||||
Holland Ladies Tour | 10 | 8 | — | 5 | 7 |
Monuments results timeline | ||||||||||||||
Monument | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | ||||||||
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Tour of Flanders | — | — | 22 | 10 | 8 | 9 | ||||||||
Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Race did not exist | 3 | 14 | |||||||||||
Classics results timeline | ||||||||||||||
Classic | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | ||||||||
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | — | 16 | DNF | 12 | — | ||||||||
Strade Bianche Donne | Race did not exist | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Ronde van Drenthe | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
Gent–Wevelgem | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | ||||||||
Trofeo Alfredo Binda | 36 | DNF | 13 | 7 | 8 | 1 | ||||||||
Amstel Gold Race | Race did not exist | 3 | 29 | |||||||||||
La Flèche Wallonne | — | 15 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 21 | ||||||||
GP de Plouay | — | — | 48 | 4 | — | |||||||||
Open de Suède Vårgårda | — | — | 21 | — | 13 |
References
- ↑ Gadzała, Paweł (3 July 2015). "Giro Rosa will be much harder than last year, says Niewiadoma". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ "Katarzyna Niewiadoma". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ "Szosowe Mistrzostwa Europy 2015: Katarzyna Niewiadoma mistrzynią orliczek". Rowery.org. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ "Final Results / Résultats finaux: Road Race Women Elite / Course en ligne femmes élite" (PDF). Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ↑ "Worlds: Ferrand-Prevot secures the gold medal". Cycling News. Cycling News. 27 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
External links
- Katarzyna Niewiadoma at Cycling Archives
- Katarzyna Niewiadoma at ProCyclingStats