Antonia Niedermaier

Antonia Niedermaier (born 20 February 2003) is a German cyclist and ski mountaineer. She rides for UCI Women's World Tour team. Niedermaier won a stage of the 2023 Giro Donne, and competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

Early life
Niedermaier was born in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany. She later lived in Bad Aibling and Bruckmühl. At the age of 15, she started mountain running, but gave up the sport in 2019 due to injury.

Ski mountaineering career
Niedermaier started ski mountaineering in 2019. That year, she finished third at the Junior World Championships, her first major event. She competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, finishing sixth in the individual event and 17th in the sprint competition. She was part of the German team that finished third in the mixed relay. Niedermaier won the 2020–21 U-20 Ski Mountaineering World Cup in both the individual and vertical events. She won multiple races in the World Cup season. Niedermaier planned to compete at the 2023 Ski Mountaineering World Championships, but was unable to after requiring knee surgery.

Cycling career
Niedermaier started competing for the junior squad of local team Mangertseder Bayern. She won the 2021 German U-19 Road Championships time trial event, and came third in the road race. She also finished third at the World U-23 Road Championships, and second at the European U-23 Road Championships.

In 2022, Niedermaier started competing for Canyon-SRAM Generation. Niedermaier missed the first half of the 2022 season to focus on her studying. In 2022, she won two stages and the general classification at the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche. She took the leader's jersey at the Tour de l'Ardèche after winning from a 83 km solo breakaway ride. That year, she also won the Classica de l'Arros and finished third at the German U-23 Road Championships.

Ahead of the 2023 season, Niedermaier was promoted to the UCI Women's World Tour team Canyon–SRAM. Her first race for the team was the Thüringen Ladies Tour; she crashed out on the third stage of the event. She finished third on the second stage of the 2023 Tour Féminin des Pyrénées, and won the Queen of the Mountains and young rider classifications. She won the time trial at the German U-23 Road Championships, and came sixth in the road race.

Later in 2023, Niedermaier competed at the 2023 Giro Donne, her first UCI Women's World Tour event. She won the fifth stage of the Giro Donne, the queen stage of the race, after attacking on the penultimate climb, around 25 km from the finish. After the stage, she moved up to second in the race's general classification, and was leader of the young rider classification. She abandoned the race the following day following a crash with Urška Žigart.

Niedermaier won the women's under-23 time trial event at the 2023 UCI Road World Championships.

Major results
Source:


 * 2021
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Time trial, UCI World Junior Road Championships


 * 2022
 * 1st Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
 * 1st Young rider classification
 * 1st Stages 4 & 5
 * 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
 * 5th Road race, National Road Championships
 * 8th Visegrad 4 Ladies Race Slovakia


 * 2023
 * 1st Jersey rainbow chrono.svg Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
 * 1st Stage 5 Giro Donne
 * 1st MaillotAllemania.svg Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Time trial, European Under-23 Road Championships
 * 3rd Overall Tour Féminin des Pyrénées
 * 1st Mountains classification
 * 1st Young rider classification
 * 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir Femmes
 * 1st Young rider classification
 * 1st Stage 1 (ITT)


 * 2024
 * 8th Grand Prix de Chambéry