Viola Brand

Viola Brand (born 28 June 1994 ) is a German cyclist specialising in artistic cycling. She has won national and European championships twice each, and the silver medal three times in the World Championships.

Personal life Brand was born in Backnang, Germany. She started training artistic cycling at 6 years old.

Brand is studying clinical nutrition at Hohenheim University, Stuttgart. , she is writing the thesis for her master's degree.

Professional career

Brand's sports club is RSV Unterweissach (located in Weissach im Tal). She joined the German national sports team at the age of 15, and another world record at the regular European Championships in 2018. Her best personal score was 194.71 points in German Masters 2019.

Brand spent years perfecting her choreography and learning new stunts. It took her seven years of training to be able to do a handstand on the handlebar, the stunt Brand is most proud of, and in June 2019 she was able to perform a Maute jump for the first time, jumping from the saddle to the handlebars.

Brand participated in a total of five World Championships, missing qualification in 2018 after a competition which German national coach called "very hard". Since each nation can only send two participants, Brand stated that "qualification is much harder than winning a medal at the World Championships".

Other activities

In 2017, Brand started an Instagram account after a friend suggested it, and by July 2018 had gathered over 100k followers. In 2018, she participated in the talent show Das Supertalent but failed to reach the final.

After her February 2020 retirement from professional sports, Brand announced that she would like to focus on appearances in shows and her social media. In July 2021, the Stuttgarter Zeitung reported on an underwater photography session featuring Brand with her bicycle. In May 2022, she was featured in a video by Danny MacAskill.