Ina-Yoko is a rider with a huge amount of experience and a fiery personality. She started racing when she was 6 years old because she didn't want to miss out on anything her older brothers did, and from a young age she was beating the older and bigger boys. Her strength is in the sprints, but her preference is to make the race as hard as possible and win out of a break.

In the last few years she has won multiple World Cup races and over the years she has won 20 stages of Tour de l'Aude, 6 stages of the women's Tour de France and stage wins in all other major tours around the world. In 2008 and 2009 she was the winningest rider in the team with 24 wins each year. She is former German Road Champion.

Ina plans to race just two more seasons, up to age 38, and therefore won’t be challenging the Frenchwoman Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli for the title of cycling’s oldest and most decorated veteran. “I definitely admire what she’s done,” Ina says of the 52-year-old Longo-Ciprelli. “I mean, she was still riding well in the road race at last year’s Worlds, and I read an article recently which said that London would be her eighth Olympics. I doubt there are many people who have competed in every Olympics since Los Angeles in 1984.”

For all her numerous and prestigious titles, Ina still has one major unfulfilled ambition in her career: “To finish on the podium in a World Championships or Olympics. I did it in the Worlds as a junior but never in the senior race. I’ve got a couple more shots…”
 

2011 Victories

• World Cup Chongming Is.
  
• Stage 2 and Overall at Tour of Chongming Is.
• Ronde Van Gelderland
• Stage 2 winner, Energiewacht Tour
• Stage winner, Tour of New Zealand
• 2 stages, Merco Classic
• Giro di Trentino, Stage 1
• German National RR Champion
• Winner StageS 4&10 Giro Donne
• Winner Stage 1, Thüringen Rundfahrt
• Stage Winner, Trophe d'Or
• Winner of 2 Stages, Giro Toscana

2010 Victories

• Stage win at Holland Ladies Tour
  
• Stage win at Route de France
  
• Four stages of the Giro d'Italia
  
• Three stages of Tour de l'Aude 2010
  
• World Cup China
  
• 2 stages and overall win of Tour of Chongming Island
  
• Drentse 8 Dwingeloo
  
• Overall and one stage of Redlands Classic
• San Dimas Overall and criterium
  
• Merced Criterium, California
• Merced Road Race, California
• Merced TTT, California
  

2009 Victories

• Stage win at Holland Ladies Tour
• 2 stage wins at Route de France 2009
• Stage win at Giro d'Italia Femminile 2009
• German National Road Champion 2009
• Liberty Classic 2009
• 3 stage wins at Tour de L'Aude
  
• Ronde Van Gelderland 2009
  
• Gracia Orlova 2009
  
• Drenthe 8 Van Dwingeloo
  
• Ronde Van Vlaanderen (World Cup #2)
  
• Stage 2 and 3 plus overall win at Redlands Classic
  
• Stage 2 and 3 plus overall win at San Dimas Tour
• Merced Criterium, California
• Merced Road Race, California
  

2008 Victories:

• Two stage wins Tour of Toscana 2008
• Three stage wins Tour of Holland 2008
• Three stage wins Route de France 2008
• Four stage wins Giro Donne 2008
• Two stage wins and over all Raboster "Zeeuwsche Eilanden" 2008
• Winner of Triple Crown 2008
• Winner of Allen Town Classic and Reading Classic 2008
• Two stage wins in Tour de l'Aude 2008
• Stage wins in Geelong and New Zealand Tour 2008
• 1st place Central Valley Classic 2008
• 1st place Visalia 2008