Katarzyna Niewiadoma

Katarzyna "Kasia" Niewiadoma (born 29 September 1994) is a Polish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM.[4] Among her wins are the Amstel Gold Race, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda and the stage race The Women's Tour. She is a national champion in both the road race and time trial events.

Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Niewiadoma at the 2018 Flèche Wallonne
Personal information
Full nameKatarzyna Niewiadoma
NicknameKasia
Born (1994-09-29) 29 September 1994
Limanowa, Poland
Team information
Current teamCanyon–SRAM
DisciplineRoad cycling
RoleRider
Rider typeClimbing specialist[1]
Amateur teams
2009–2012WLKS Krakus BBC Czaja
2013TKK Pacific Toruń
Professional teams
2013→ Rabobank–Liv Giant (stagiaire)
2014–2017Rabo–Liv
2018–Canyon–SRAM[2]
Major wins
Stage races
Emakumeen Euskal Bira (2015)
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs (2016)
Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol (2016)
The Women's Tour (2017)

One day races

Amstel Gold Race (2019)
National Road Race Championships (2016)
National Time Trial Championships (2016)
European Under-23 Road Race Championships (2015)[3]
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio (2018)

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 Under-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 Under-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 did not finish the elite women's race.[5]

Professional career
Niewiadoma at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships

2014

Niewiadoma signed a one-year contract with Rabo–Liv 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 race. Her climbing abilities proved to be an asset for the 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 the best young rider classification and the best climber standings. In September, she signed a two-year contract extension with the Rabo–Liv team and concluded preparations for the World Championships with a start in the 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.[6]

2015
Niewiadoma talking with Lizzie Armitstead before La Flèche Wallonne in 2016.

In her second year as a professional Niewiadoma shone as one of the best young riders in the peloton, giving Poland results it had never had in 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 Lizzie Armitstead and Emma Johansson. In June she won Emakumeen Euskal Bira, a five-day stage race in the Basque Country, and won silver in the elite women's road race at the European Games.

Despite being only 21, Niewiadoma started the season's biggest race – the Giro Rosa – as one of Rabo–Liv's leaders. She quickly assumed the lead of the young rider classification and held on to the top places on the mountain stages. She then clocked the fifth-fastest time on the demanding route of stage 8, a 21.7-kilometre (13.5-mile) time trial, and climbed up to 4th overall with just one mountaintop finish to go. The long climb to San Domenico di Varzo proved decisive and Niewiadoma crossed the line in 7th, finishing 5th overall, winning the 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 the European Road Championships in Tartu and took gold in the women's under-23 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 at the World Championships in Richmond, being a part of a Rabo–Liv squad that secured bronze in the team time trial event. She also led the Polish team in the elite women's road race and sprinted to 7th place.

Major results
2011
Klomnice
1st Road race
9th Time trial
UEC European Junior Road Championships
8th Road race
10th Time trial
2012
2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
Klomnice
7th Time trial
8th Road race
2013
1st National Hill Climb Championships
2nd Overall Langenloiser Radrenntage (ARBO Cup)
Klomnice
3rd Road race
3rd 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
2014
1st Grand Prix Gippingen
1st Frauen Prolog Grand Prix Gippingen
3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
1st Mountains classification
1st Young rider classification
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 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
5th Overall Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour
5th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
6th Strade Bianche
2016
UEC European Road Championships
1st Under-23 road race
2nd Road race
National Road Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
1st Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 2
1st Overall Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol
1st Stage 1
1st Ronde van Gelderland
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
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 Trofeo Alfredo Binda
2nd Strade Bianche
3rd Overall Tour of California
2019
1st Amstel Gold race
2nd Overall The Women's Tour
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 4
3rd Strade Bianche
6th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
6th Tour of Flanders
6th Flèche Wallonne
6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

Results timelines
Stage race results timeline
Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Giro d'Italia Femminile — 11 5 7 6 7
Stage race 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
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 20 2
Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt — — — — — —
Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour — — 5 — — —
Ladies Tour of Norway — 3 15 — 15 5
Holland Ladies Tour 10 8 — 5 7 —
Monuments results timeline
Monument 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Tour of Flanders — — 22 10 8 9 6
Liège–Bastogne–Liège Race did not exist 3 14 6
Classics results timeline
Classic 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad — — 16 DNF 12 — 17
Strade Bianche Donne Race did not exist 6 2 2 2 3
Ronde van Drenthe — — — — — — —
Gent–Wevelgem — — — — 17 — 84
Trofeo Alfredo Binda 36 DNF 13 7 8 1 6
Amstel Gold Race Race did not exist 3 29 1
La Flèche Wallonne — 15 5 4 3 21 6
GP de Plouay — — 48 4 — 10
Open de Suède Vårgårda — — 21 — 13 —

References
  1. Gadzała, Paweł (3 July 2015). "Giro Rosa will be much harder than last year, says Niewiadoma". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  2. "Our full roster for 2019!". Canyon–SRAM. Lauke Pro Radsport GmbH. 10 January 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  3. "Szosowe Mistrzostwa Europy 2015: Katarzyna Niewiadoma mistrzynią orliczek". Rowery.org. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  4. Frattini, Kirsten (6 December 2019). "Canyon-SRAM confirm 15 returning riders in 2020". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  5. "Final Results / Résultats finaux: Road Race Women Elite / Course en ligne femmes élite" (PDF). Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  6. "Worlds: Ferrand-Prevot secures the gold medal". Cycling News. Cycling News. 27 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
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