Antonia Niedermaier (born 20 February 2003) is a German cyclist and ski mountaineer. She rides for UCI Women's World Tour team .
Niedermaier has performed strongly at the Giro d'Italia Women – winning a stage in 2023, winning the young rider classification in 2025 (finishing 5th overall), and finishing 2nd overall in 2026. Niedermaier won the under 23 individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships on two occasions – 2023 and 2024. In 2025, she won the German National Time Trial Championships. In 2026, she performed strongly at the Tour de France Femmes, finishing 4th overall and winning the young rider classification.
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
Early 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 solo breakaway ride. That year, she also won the Classica de l'Arros and finished third at the German U-23 Road Championships.
Canyon–SRAM Ahead of the 2023 season, Niedermaier was promoted to the UCI Women's World Tour team . 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 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 both the 2023 UCI Road World Championships and 2024 UCI Road World Championships.
In 2025, Niedermaier won the young rider classifications at the UAE Tour Women and Itzulia Women. Later that year, she extended her contract with to the end of the 2028 season. In July, she finished 5th overall in the Giro d'Italia Women and won the young rider classification, having worn the Maglia Bianca for the entire race.
In 2026, Niedermaier finished 2nd overall at the 2026 Giro d'Italia Women, behind winner Demi Vollering. She performed strongly throughout the race, finishing in the top 5 on four stages. She performed strongly at the Tour de France Femmes, with Cycling News praising her performance after she finished 4th overall and won the young rider classification.
Major results Source:
2021 2nd Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships 3rd 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 Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Stage 5 Giro Donne 2nd Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships 3rd Overall Tour Féminin des Pyrénées 1st Mountains classification 1st Young rider classification 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 1 (ITT) 2024 1st Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships 8th Grand Prix de Chambéry 2025 National Championships 1st Time trial 2nd Road Race 5th Overall Giro d'Italia 1st Young rider classification UCI Road World Championships 6th Road race 6th Time trial 7th Overall UAE Tour 1st Young rider classification 7th Overall Itzulia Women 1st Young rider classification 8th Road Race, UEC European Championships 2026 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia 4th Overall Tour de France 1st Young rider classification 5th Overall Itzulia Women 7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
References
External links
Ski Mo Stats Profile