Bärbel Jungmeier

Bärbel Jungmeier was an Austrian mountain bike cyclist placing 14th at the 2004 Athens Olympics as the first ever Austrian mountain biker at the Olympics. She won three national titles; mountain bike (2004), mountain bike marathon, and individual track pursuit (both 2007). That same year she won the European Masters in mountain bike marathon.

In addition to multi-day mountain bike stage races (Alpentour Styria (2000, 1st place), Transalp Challenge (2007, 2nd place)), the all-rounder Jungmeier also completed road tours in the Czech Republic, Australia, and New Zealand.

Jungmeier later studied Protestant theology at the University of Vienna (Wien) and became a graduated protestant theologian and director of the Piarist Gymnasium Krems in 2018. She built a student coaching project at St. Pölten for high-performance competitive athletes.