Adriana ("Adrie") Visser (born 19 October 1983 in
Hoorn) is a former Dutch
track and
road racer who lives in
Wieringerwerf.
Visser started her professional career in 2001, when she finished second at the Dutch road race championship. She came fifth in the time trial. In track cycling she won her first
national titles, becoming Dutch champion in the 500m time trial and sprint. She also won a silver medal in the
points race
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. At the world championships in
Trexlertown, Pennsylvania, USA, she was seventh in the 500m time trial and eighth in the sprint and individual pursuit.
She won a bronze medal at the 2003
World Track Championships in
Stuttgart. In the same year she won the Dutch points, scratch and individual pursuit championships for the first time. In May 2004 she won her first World Cup meeting in
Sydney, where she won the scratch before finishing 10th at the world championships in
Melbourne
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a week later. Her first achievement in road cycling was the blue jersey for sprints in the
Eumakumeen Bira in June 2004. A month later she won her first road race in
Alblasserdam
Alblasserdam () is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It covers an area of , of which is water, and has a population of as of . Alblasserdam is officially a part of the Drechtsteden region. A po ...
.
Back on the track that year she won another three national titles (
points,
individual pursuit
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It is held at over for men and for women. The riders start at the same time and set off to complete the ...
and
scratch). She also took part in the
2004 Summer Olympics participating in the points race and finishing 11th.
At the world championships in Manchester, England, in 2005, she finished fourth in the scratch event. She was fifth in the points race and seventh in the pursuit. In June on the road she won the
Omloop Middag-Humsterland,
Profronde van Stiphout and a race in
Dalen
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The village was first mentioned in the 12t ...
. These brought her into the national team for the world road championship for the first time, finishing 84th in
Madrid
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. She won her second World Cup track event in
Manchester
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where she won the scratch again before defending her three national Dutch titles.
2006 started well when in January she won
Egmond-Pier-Egmond. In March she won the road race in
Oud Vossemeer. She finished in the top 10 in both the road race and the time trial championship (7th and 9th). Between 15 July and 1 August she won four road races; (
Ochten),
Barendrecht
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The municipality of Barendrecht also includes Barendr ...
,
Alblasserdam
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and
Surhuisterveen
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). Dutch national coach
Egon van Kessel selected her for the World championship again following these results.
On 31 March 2007, Visser took the bronze medal in the scratch race at the
UCI Track World Championships
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in
Palma de Mallorca. Two weeks later, she won her first big
UCI Women's Road World Cup
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race, the
Ronde van Drenthe
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(Netherlands).
Palmares
Road cycling
;2009 –
DSB Bank–LTO 2009 season
;2010 –
Team HTC–Columbia 2010 season
;2011 –
HTC–Highroad 2011 season
1st,
2011 Sparkassen Giro Bochum
;2012 –
Team Skil–Argos 2012 season
1st,
2012 Le Samyn des Dames
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;2013 –
Boels–Dolmans Cycling Team 2013 season
Track cycling
;2003
:1st,
Scratch,
Dutch National Track Championships
;2004
:1st,
Scratch,
Dutch National Track Championships
;2005
:1st, Scratch,
Dutch National Track Championships
;2006
:1st, Scratch,
2006 Dutch National Track Championships
The 2006 Dutch National Track Championships were the Dutch national Championship for track cycling. The competitions took place at Sportpaleis Alkmaar in Alkmaar, the Netherlands from December 28 to December 30. Competitions were held of various t ...
:1st,
Points race
A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic
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Sports
Competitions
* Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 18 ...
,
2006 Dutch National Track Championships
The 2006 Dutch National Track Championships were the Dutch national Championship for track cycling. The competitions took place at Sportpaleis Alkmaar in Alkmaar, the Netherlands from December 28 to December 30. Competitions were held of various t ...
;2007
:1st,
2007 Ronde van Drenthe World Cup, (
World Cup
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)
:2nd,
Scratch,
2007 Dutch National Track Championships
See also
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List of Dutch Olympic cyclists
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1983 births
Living people
Dutch female cyclists
Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Hoorn
UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands
Dutch cyclists at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Cyclists from North Holland