Liane Bahler

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| birth_place = Gotha, Germany

| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|07|04|1982|01|22|df=yes}}

| death_place = Rudolstadt, Germany

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| discipline = Racing cyclist

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| proyears1 = 2003-2005

| proteam1 = Nürnberger Versicherung

| proyears2 = 2006

| proteam2 = Therme Skin Care

| proyears3 = 2007

| proteam3 = Fenix-HPB

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1st in the Köln-Hurth race (2006)
2nd in the Tour Cycliste Féminin de la Drôme (2004)

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Liane Bahler (22 January 1982 – 4 July 2007) was a German professional racing cyclist.

Biography

Bahler was born in Gotha, and started her professional career in 2001. In that year she finished third in the sixth stage of the Tour de Bretagne. In 2002, she won a stage in the Tour de l'Aude. She joined the Nürnberger Versicherung cycling team in 2003 and stayed with this team in 2004 and 2005. In 2004, she finished in second place in the Albstadt Frauen Etappenrennen. She made a move to Dutch team Therme Skin Care in 2006. She finished in second position at the Tour Cycliste Féminin de la Drôme, and third in the fourth stage of the Route de France Féminine. She also won the Köln-Hurth race that year. For the 2007 season she switched to Italian team Fenix-HPB.

On 4 July 2007, Bahler died in a car crash in Rudolstadt, while travelling to the airport on the way to competing in the Giro d'Italia Femminile.

References

{{cycling Archives|985}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110515084013/http://www.dewielersite.net/db2/wielersite/nieuwsfiche.php?nieuwsid=6550 Death notification] {{in lang|nl}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110515084108/http://www.dewielersite.net/db2/wielersite/nieuwsfiche.php?nieuwsid=6552 Death notification] {{in lang|de}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070811132245/http://www.nos.nl/nos/artikelen/2007/07/art000001C7BE79B8DA8DE2.html NOS.nl report] {{in lang|nl}}

Category:1982 births

Category:2007 deaths

Category:Road incident deaths in Germany

Category:German female cyclists

Category:People from Gotha (town)

Category:Cyclists from Thuringia

Category:Sportspeople from Bezirk Erfurt

Category:20th-century German women

Category:21st-century German sportswomen