Evelyn Lee Stevens (born May 9, 1983) is an American retired professional

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Early life

Stevens was born in

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, but grew up in

Acton, Massachusetts Acton is a New England town, town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, approximately west-northwest of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston along Massachusetts Route 2 west of Concord, Massachusetts, Concord and about southwest of Lowell ...

, where she attended

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. She studied government and women and

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and was a member of the college's tennis team. After graduating in 2005 she moved to

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where she worked for

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for two years, then for mezzanine fund Gleacher Mezzanine before quitting in July 2009 to take up cycling full-time.

Career

She competed at the

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in the women's road race, finishing 24th. In July 2014, Stevens competed at the

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and Thüringen Rundfahrt over 17 consecutive days of racing, finishing 14th and 1st respectively. On February 27, 2016, Stevens rode to a new UCI Hour record for women at the

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, United States, with a distance of 47.980 km. She broke the record set January 22 by Australian Bridie O'Donnell in Adelaide, Australia, by 1.1 km. Stevens was one of only three women (along with

Trixi Worrack Beatrix "Trixi" Worrack (born 28 September 1981) is a German former professional road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2000 and 2021. The winner of the 2003 German National Road Race Championships, Worrack's ...

and

Ellen van Dijk Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional Road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cycling, tr ...

) to win four gold medals in the women's team time trial at the

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Major results

Source: ;2008 : 1st Green Mountain Stage Race Cat 3/4 Women ;2009 : 1st Overall

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: 1st Overall Jiminy Peak : 1st Overall Bear Mountain : 1st Overall Housatonic Hills : 1st Overall Fitchburg Longsjo Classic : 1st Overall Cascade Cycling Classic : 2nd

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, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall La Route de France ::1st Stage 5 ;

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

: 1st

, National Road Championships : 1st Chrono Gatineau : 1st Stage 7

Giro d'Italia Femminile The is an annual women's cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men's Giro d'Italia. The race was previously ...

: 1st Stage 6 North Star Grand Prix : 5th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic ::1st Stage 3 : 5th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine : 5th GP de Plouay – Bretagne : 6th

: 6th Sparkassen Giro : 9th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini ;

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

: 1st

, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT) Trophée d'Or Féminin : 1st Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche : 2nd Silver medal blank

Time trial, Pan American Road Championships : 2nd GP de Plouay – Bretagne : 7th Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs : 9th

Memorial Davide Fardelli Memorial Davide Fardelli — Cronometro Individuale was a women's senior and men's under-23 time trial cycle race which took place in Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western ...

: 9th Chrono Champenois ;

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

::1st

Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...

(with

, Charlotte Becker, Amber Neben, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and

) ::2nd

: 1st

Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Gracia-Orlová ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Exergy Tour : 1st Jersey orange

Overall La Route de France ::1st Stages 7 & 9 : 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine : Open de Suède Vårgårda ::1st

::9th Road race : 1st Stage 4b ( TTT) Energiewacht Tour : 2nd

, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Holland Ladies Tour ::1st Stage 2 ( TTT) : 2nd Chrono Gatineau : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 3 : 5th GP de Plouay – Bretagne : 10th

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::1st

(with

, Carmen Small, Katie Colclough,

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and

) ::4th

::5th Road race : 1st Jersey pink

Overall Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol ::1st Jersey blue

Points classification ::1st Stage 1b : 1st Philadelphia Cycling Classic : 1st Amgen Tour of California Women's Time Trial : 1st Merco Cycling Classic : Open de Suède Vårgårda ::1st

::6th Road race : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Belgium Tour : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT) Holland Ladies Tour : 2nd Overall Gracia-Orlová ::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira : 3rd Overall La Route de France : 3rd Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 5th Overall

;

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

::1st

(with Carmen Small,

, Chantal Blaak, Karol-Ann Canuel, and

) ::3rd

: 1st

Time trial, Pan American Road Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen ::1st Stage 4 :: MaillotVolta

Active rider award, Stage 2 : 1st Jersey orange

Overall Holland Ladies Tour : 1st Philadelphia Cycling Classic : 1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT : National Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::3rd

: 4th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine : 10th Tour of Flanders for Women ;

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

: 1st Amgen Tour of California Women's Time Trial : 1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification Ladies Tour of Norway :

::2nd

::6th

: 3rd Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 3rd Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda TTT : 4th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 6th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine : 6th Philadelphia Cycling Classic : 7th Time trial, EPZ Omloop van Borsele : 8th

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: 9th Overall

: 10th Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira ;2016 :

Hour record The hour record is the record for the longest distance cycled in one hour on a bicycle from a stationary start. Cyclists attempt this record alone on the track without other competitors present. It is considered one of the most prestigious record ...

: 47.980 km : 1st Gold medal blank

: 1st Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT : 2nd Overall

::1st Stages 2, 6 & 7 ( ITT) : 2nd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine : 3rd Overall Tour of California : 4th Philadelphia Cycling Classic : 8th Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira : 10th

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;2019 : 1st 2019 Credit Suisse Sponsored Flywheel World Championships

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