Anna van der Breggen (born 18 April 1990) is a Dutch former professional
road bicycle racer
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, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for
Team Flexpoint
Team Flexpoint (UCI Code: FLX) was a women's professional cycling team based in Netherlands, sponsored by Flexpoint. The team consisted of two sections: UCI Women's Tour and Cyclo-Cross.
History
2006
2008
Results
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, , and . She won the gold medal in the
women's road race at the
2016 Summer Olympics
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in
Rio de Janeiro
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,
and has won the
Giro d'Italia Femminile
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on four occasions.
In 2018 and 2020, she won the
women's road race at the
UCI Road World Championships
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Events
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.
Considered one of the most versatile riders of her generation, van der Breggen excelled in both the
one-day classics and
stage races
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, particularly when run on a hilly terrain. Apart from the Olympic road race title and three Giro Rosa titles, other notable wins include
La Flèche Wallonne on seven consecutive occasions,
Liège–Bastogne–Liège two times, the
Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and orga ...
,
Amstel Gold Race
The Amstel Gold Race is an annual one-day classic road cycling race held in the province of Limburg, Netherlands. It traditionally marks the turning point of the spring classics, with the climbers and stage racers replacing the cobbled classic ...
,
Strade Bianche,
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the
European Road Race Championships.
In addition, she has won the general classification and numerous stages in smaller stage races.
In 2017, she won all three
Ardennes classics races in one week, which earned her the nickname ''Queen of the Ardennes''.
She went on to secure her second
Giro d'Italia win the following summer.
In April 2019, she won the
La Flèche Wallonne Féminine, her fifth-consecutive win in the race. In 2020, she won both the Individual Time Trial as well as the Road Race at the UCI World Championships.
Following her retirement at the end of the 2021 season,
van der Breggen now works as a
directeur sportif
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for her final professional team,
UCI Women's WorldTeam .
Career
Early life and amateur career
Anna van der Breggen was born in
Zwolle
Zwolle () is a city and municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Overijssel and the province's second-largest municipality after Enschede with a population of 130,592 as of 1 December 2021. Zwolle is on ...
into a cycling family. She has three brothers and a sister who all practiced cycling at some point.
She started bike-racing at the age of seven with the local club ''WV Noordwesthoek'' and became more serious about it in the juniors category.
In 2007, aged 17, she was fifth in the
juniors world championship road race in
Aguascalientes
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but had a difficult transition to the elite category. She considered quitting the sport after she suffered in the back of the peloton during the
Grote Prijs Gerrie Knetemann
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a se ...
.
2012–2013: Turning professional
Van der Breggen turned professional in 2012 with the . In April, she took a ninth-placed finish at the
Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and orga ...
, and in July, she won the
Tour de Bretagne Féminin. She won three of the four stages and secured the overall classification with a lead of almost three minutes over
Sofie De Vuyst. She also won the time trial at the
Tour Féminin en Limousin
The Tour Féminin en Limousin is an elite women's road bicycle stage race held in France. The race was established in 2005 and is rated by the UCI as a 2.2 category race.
Past winners
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as well as the gold medal in the women's under-23 time-trialling event at the
European championships
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. As a result, she was selected for the
2012 World Championships. Whilst playing a domestique role for her team leader,
Marianne Vos, she managed to finish fifth herself in the
road race.
In 2013 she devoted herself to finishing her studies and rode a low-key season, with the highlight of the year a fourth place at the
Trofeo Alfredo Binda
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the '' comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy.
...
. After she obtained her
nursing
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degree,
she became a full-time professional cyclist and finished 18th in the
Giro Rosa in the summer. She was selected to compete in the
World Championships in
Florence
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where she finished fourth in the
road race.
In preparation for the 2014 season, she announced she would be joining the team.
2014: Stage race success
Van der Breggen's first season on the Rabo team proved highly fruitful. She opened the year with top-10 finishes in the
Ronde van Drenthe
Ronde van Drenthe ( en, Tour of Drenthe) is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drenthe, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union. Since 1998 there is also a women's event, ...
,
Trofeo Alfredo Binda
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the '' comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy.
...
, and the
Tour of Flanders
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, and started showing her stage racing potential throughout the season. She claimed notable wins in the overall classification of both the
Ladies Tour of Norway
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and
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. Since 2008 this event is on the UCI women's elite cycle racing ...
in Luxembourg; as well as a runner-up spot in the
Belgium Tour and third places in the
Emakumeen Euskal Bira
The Emakumeen Euskal Bira was a women's cycling race held in the Basque Country, Spain. It was held annually from 1988 to 2019, starting out as a two-stage race and building up to five stages in 2007. One of these stages was always a double stag ...
and the
Giro Rosa, in a podium made up entirely of riders.
Her season came to an abrupt end when she broke her pelvis at the
UCI Road World Championships
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Events
...
in
Ponferrada, Spain. Her teammate
Annemiek van Vleuten
Annemiek van Vleuten (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .
Van Vleuten is a two-time winner of both the road race (2019 and 2022) and the time trial (2017 and 2018) at the UCI ...
crashed just before the finish of the
Women's Team Time Trial after clipping the roadside barriers and brought down van der Breggen and two other riders. Van der Breggen broke her
ilium and was transported to hospital.
2015: First Giro Rosa win
She recovered from her
pelvic fracture in the winter of 2015 and won her first
major classic, the
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, in late February. Van der Breggen had broken away from a lead group together with
Ellen van Dijk
Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a tim ...
on the
Molenberg, at from the finish. She beat her fellow Dutch in the sprint.
The following week, she was second in
Le Samyn des Dames. In April she won
La Flèche Wallonne with an attack at the foot of the
Mur de Huy
The Mur de Huy ( en, Wall of Huy) is a high hill located in Huy, Wallonia, Belgium. It is also known as ''le Chemin des Chapelles'' ( en, The Path of the Chapels) because of the seven chapels along its route. This climb is famous for being part ...
, and recorded several podium positions in one-day races. She highlighted her stage race potential again by taking the overall classification at the
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. Since 2008 this event is on the UCI women's elite cycle racing ...
, which she led from the prologue to the end of the race.
In June, she won the bronze medal in the
women's road race at the
inaugural European Games in
Baku
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. She was part of a four-woman breakaway together with Ellen van Dijk,
Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Katarzyna "Kasia" Niewiadoma (born 29 September 1994) is a Polish racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Among her wins are the Amstel Gold Race, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda and the stage race The Women's Tour. She is a former nat ...
and
Alena Amialiusik
Alena Vasileŭna Amialiusik ( be, Алена Васільеўна Амялюсік; born 6 February 1989) is a Belarusian road bicycle racing, road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam .
She competed at the 2012 S ...
, when an acceleration by van der Breggen caused her teammate van Dijk to be dropped, for the race to be decided in a three-up sprint. Van der Breggen led out the sprint from afar but was passed by both Amialiusik and Niewiadoma.
Van der Breggen claimed her greatest career victory to that point in July when she won the general classification at the
Giro d'Italia Femminile
The is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing race stage, stage race. It was rebranded from 2013-2020 as the Giro Rosa, having been branded the Giro Donne until 2012 and again in 2021. It has been considered the most prestigious stage race in ...
, the most important stage race on the women's calendar and the only
Grand Tour
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for women.
She finished fourth in the prologue and second in stage 2, after which she remained in the top-three until the Alpine stages. Van der Breggen was in third position overall behind
maglia rosa wearer
Megan Guarnier
Megan Guarnier (born May 4, 1985) is an American former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2019 for the , and teams. She was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Middlebury College in 2007.
Major results
;2009
: 2nd Chol ...
, when she moved into the race lead on the penultimate day after winning the
individual time trial
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to
Nebbiuno
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.
She won the time trial more than one minute ahead of Guarnier and secured her overall win with a second place in the
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.
Later she won the second edition of
La Course by Le Tour de France
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on the
Champs-Élysées; and she won the final stage of the
Belgium Tour in
Geraardsbergen
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.
At the
World Championships in September in
Richmond
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, she claimed the silver medals in both the
individual time trial
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and the
road race. She finished at two seconds from
Linda Villumsen
Linda Melanie Villumsen Serup (born 9 April 1985) is a Danish-born road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's Team . Villumsen became a New Zealand citizen in 2009 and has ridden under a Kiwi licence from 2010.
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Born in Herning, V ...
in the time trial, and was narrowly beaten by
Lizzie Armitstead
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in the road race after she started the sprint from afar. She ended the year as second in the
UCI Road World Cup
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The competition was inaugurated in 1989, and replaced the Super Prestige Pernod International. In the first ...
, behind Armitstead, and was awarded the Gerrit Schulte Trophy for best female Dutch cyclist of the year.
2016: Olympic and European champion
Van der Breggen opened the 2016 season with 5th place at the
Strade Bianche, 4th at the
Ronde van Drenthe
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and 6th at the
Trofeo Alfredo Binda
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the '' comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy.
...
in March; but failed to claim a victory until she successfully defended her title at
La Flèche Wallonne. She counterattacked a move by
Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Katarzyna "Kasia" Niewiadoma (born 29 September 1994) is a Polish racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Among her wins are the Amstel Gold Race, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda and the stage race The Women's Tour. She is a former nat ...
on the Côte de Cherave, at from the finish, and was followed by only four others over the top. She broke clear again with
Evelyn Stevens at from the finish and powered away from Stevens on the finishing
Mur de Huy
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to claim her second victory in succession.
In July, she finished third overall in the
Giro Rosa.
She was third in the prologue, but lost time in the mountain stages in the
Dolomites
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. She climbed back to third place after finishing second in
stage 7's individual time trial and held on to her podium place until the finish.
During the Giro she announced she would leave to join for the 2017 season onwards.
On 7 August 2016, van der Breggen won the gold medal in the
women's road race at the
Rio Olympics.
[ On the final climb, the long ]Vista Chinesa
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, five riders had remained in the front: van der Breggen and her teammate Annemiek van Vleuten, American Mara Abbott
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, Italian Elisa Longo Borghini
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During her career, Longo Borghini has won two bronze medals in the road race at the Summer Olympic Games, taking third- ...
and Sweden's Emma Johansson
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. Van Vleuten jumped away shortly before the top and only Abbott managed to join. In the sinuous descent that followed, van Vleuten distanced Abbott and looked on her way to win the race, when she crashed into a concrete banking with to go and needed to be transported to hospital. Suddenly Abbott seemed on her way to Olympic glory but she was caught back by the three upcoming riders at from the finish. Van der Breggen beat Johansson and Longo Borghini in the three-up sprint on Copacabana Beach to become Olympic road race champion. Three days later she won the bronze medal in the individual time trial
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, 11 seconds behind winner Kristin Armstrong
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. Following her Olympic success, she was knighted in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
In mid-September, she took part in the European Road Championships. She finished second in the time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
behind Ellen van Dijk
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. In the road race she followed an acceleration of Niewiadoma on the final climb, together with Longo Borghini, Alena Amialiusik
Alena Vasileŭna Amialiusik ( be, Алена Васільеўна Амялюсік; born 6 February 1989) is a Belarusian road bicycle racing, road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam .
She competed at the 2012 S ...
and Rasa Leleivytė
Rasa Leleivytė (born 22 July 1988) is a Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team .
In 2021 Leleivytė won the Lithuanian Female Cyclist of the Year award.
Doping
On July 18, 2012, it wa ...
. Van der Breggen launched the five-woman sprint from afar and became the first ever professional European road race champion. At the World Championships in October, she was a disappointing 13th in the time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
and 87th in the road race, telling reporters she "didn't have the legs anymore after a long season".
2017: Ardennes Triple and second Giro win
After placing 15th in both the Ronde van Drenthe
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and the Tour of Flanders
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, and finishing second overall in the Healthy Ageing Tour in early 2017, van der Breggen became the first woman to win all three of the Ardennes classics in a single year. She won the rebooted Amstel Gold Race
The Amstel Gold Race is an annual one-day classic road cycling race held in the province of Limburg, Netherlands. It traditionally marks the turning point of the spring classics, with the climbers and stage racers replacing the cobbled classic ...
with an attack at from the finish. Three days later, she secured her third straight Flèche Wallonne win after powering away on the Mur de Huy
The Mur de Huy ( en, Wall of Huy) is a high hill located in Huy, Wallonia, Belgium. It is also known as ''le Chemin des Chapelles'' ( en, The Path of the Chapels) because of the seven chapels along its route. This climb is famous for being part ...
, before emerging triumphant at the first ever Liège–Bastogne–Liège the following Sunday. Her dominance in the climbers races earned her the nickname ''Queen of the Ardennes''. Three weeks later she won the Tour of California, after she surpassed Katie Hall during the last stage thanks to bonus seconds won at an intermediate sprint.
In the summer, she won the Giro Rosa for the second time. Her team had won the opening Team time trial
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The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...
, and van der Breggen moved into the race lead after placing second in stage 2. She won the final general classification with more than a minute over Elisa Longo Borghini
Elisa Longo Borghini (born 10 December 1991) is an Italian professional road cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .
During her career, Longo Borghini has won two bronze medals in the road race at the Summer Olympic Games, taking third- ...
and Annemiek van Vleuten
Annemiek van Vleuten (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .
Van Vleuten is a two-time winner of both the road race (2019 and 2022) and the time trial (2017 and 2018) at the UCI ...
. After Tom Dumoulin
Tom Dumoulin (; born 11 November 1990) is a retired Dutch professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . He has won nine stages across the three Grand Tours, five medals in three different World Championships and two Olympic s ...
's win in the men's Giro d'Italia held in May, it was the first time a Grand Tour was won by both a Dutch man and woman in the same year.
Later van der Breggen won a stage and was second overall in the Holland Ladies Tour
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, which secured her lead in the final standing of the UCI Women's World Tour ahead of van Vleuten. At the Road World Championships in Norway her team finished second to in the team time trial event. She also placed second in the individual time trial
An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' " stopwatch stage"). There are also track ...
behind van Vleuten, and eighth in the road race.
2018: Queen of the Classics and first rainbow jersey
As world number one, she kicked off the 2018 season at the Strade Bianche. She won the race, in abysmal weather, after an attack on the penultimate gravel sector of Colle Pinzuto at from the finish. Three weeks later she won the Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and orga ...
after a solo breakaway. Van der Breggen made her decisive move on the Kruisberg
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and increased her lead over the Oude Kwaremont
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and Paterberg
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to claim her first Tour of Flanders win.
The following week she won the opening time trial and finished fourth overall in the Healthy Ageing Tour, before attempting to defend her titles in the Ardennes classics. She finished 38th in the Amstel Gold Race
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after an early crash, but won her fourth consecutive Flèche Wallonne three days later, on her 28th birthday. She concluded the Ardennes week with her second win in Liège–Bastogne–Liège, after she powered away from Amanda Spratt
Amanda Spratt (born 17 September 1987) is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .
Spratt was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics. In 2012, 2016 and 2020 she won the Austr ...
on the uphill drag to the finish line.
Following the spring classics, Van der Breggen was unable to mount a defence of her title at the Tour of California and rode at the Emakumeen Euskal Bira
The Emakumeen Euskal Bira was a women's cycling race held in the Basque Country, Spain. It was held annually from 1988 to 2019, starting out as a two-stage race and building up to five stages in 2007. One of these stages was always a double stag ...
instead: the two races clashed on the calendar, Boels-Dolmans did not have enough riders or staff to send squads to both, and chose to enter the European race. Van der Breggen also elected not to defend her Giro Rosa title in 2018, choosing instead to focus on preparing for a bid to win her first title at the Road World Championships. She did compete in La Course in July, held on a mountainous parcours: Van der Breggen attacked in the final kilometre of a climb up the Col de la Colombière
Col de la Colombière (elevation 1613 m) is a mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Haute-Savoie in France.
It connects Cluses in the Arve valley with Le Grand-Bornand in the Bourne valley. The road then leads further to Annecy ...
and led over the top, being pursued on the 14 km descent by Van Vleuten. However, Van der Breggen ran out of steam on the rise to the finish line in Le Grand-Bornand, and was overhauled by Van Vleuten in the last 100 metres of the race. The following month she raced at the European Road Championships, where she was narrowly defeated in the time trial by countrywoman Ellen van Dijk, securing a one-two for the Netherlands.
At the Worlds in Innsbruck
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in September, she started her campaign by taking a silver alongside her Boels-Dolmans team-mates in the women's team time trial. She took a second silver in the individual time trial
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, where she was denied the rainbow jersey by her compatriot Van Vleuten and formed part of a Dutch clean sweep of the podium places ahead of the third placed Van Dijk. She finally won her first Worlds gold in the road race, bridging over from a chase group to a group of five at the head of the race on the penultimate climb, before launching a solo attack with 39 km to go and crossing the finishing line alone with a lead of over three and a half minutes over runner-up Amanda Spratt.
2019: Success on- and off-road
Van der Breggen started her 2019 season relatively quietly, making her first two road appearances in the spring at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Strade Bianche: in the latter race she worked as a domestique for team-mate Annika Langvad
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, who finished in second. Having made some appearances in mountain bike racing the previous year, in March she entered the Cape Epic
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mountain bike stage race alongside Langvad: the duo won the race by over half an hour. She subsequently announced that she would not defend her Tour of Flanders title so she could recover from her exertions at the Cape Epic, focusing instead on the Health Ageing Tour and the Ardennes Classics later in April. She went on to win her fifth consecutive Flèche Wallonne
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attacking with 200 m to the finish line on the Mur de Huy to match Marianne Vos' record for wins at the race and securing her first road win since the 2018 Worlds. In May she won the overall at the Tour of California, as well as taking the opening stage after attacking on the final climb of the day to cross the finishing line alone.
Later in the year, Van der Breggen won the GP de Plouay – Bretagne
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It is organized annually since 2002, on the day of the men's race and on the same circuit. The race consists of f ...
with a solo attack 10 km from the finishing line. At the Road World Championships in Yorkshire
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, she took two silver medals: in the individual time trial
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she finished behind champion Chloé Dygert
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and ahead of Van Vleuten, whilst in the road race she acted as a marker in a chase group attempting to reel in her team-mate Van Vleuten, who made an ultimately successful long-range solo attack with 104 km to go. Van der Breggen attacked fellow chaser Amanda Spratt in the closing kilometres of the course to secure the silver.
2020: Third Giro win and Worlds double
In 2020 Van der Breggen enjoyed some early season success at the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana in February: she won the race's second stage with a solo attack on the final climb, the 8.3 km-long Alto de Tudons, taking the overall race lead in the process, which she held on the remaining two stages of the race. In May she announced that she would retire from competition at the end of 2021 after the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics
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, which are now scheduled to be held in the summer of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Upon the resumption of racing in July, she finished third in the Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa and second in Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
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before placing fourth at Strade Bianche. In August she won the Dutch National Road Race Championships
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Men ...
for the first time in her career: before the halfway point of the race she and Anouska Koster bridged across to Van der Breggen's team-mate Jip van den Bos
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Major results
;2014
: 4th Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships
;2015
: 7th Ronde van Gelderland ...
, who had earlier broken away from the peloton. Van der Breggen eventually dropped the other two riders at the front, whilst they were being chased by another three rider group of Van Vleuten, Vos and Amy Pieters
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, which similarly disintegrated when Van Vleuten dropped the other two riders. Van der Breggen crossed the finish line over a minute ahead of Van Vlueten in second. Shortly afterwards she took the gold medal in the individual time trial at the European Road Championships in Plouay
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Plouay hosts the GP Ouest-France and the GP de Plouay, annual cycling races (a men's and women's race, respectively). It was also the location of the UCI ...
, finishing 30 seconds ahead of Van Dijk.
The following month Van der Breggen won the Giro Rosa, becoming the fourth woman to win three editions of the race. She went into the lead on the penultimate eighth stage, where she was pipped to the stage win by Elisa Longo Borghini after the pair went clear of the rest of the leading group on the final climb, taking the pink jersey from Katarzyna Niewiadoma, who in turn had inherited it after previous leader Van Vleuten crashed out of the race on the previous day. Later that month, at the UCI Road World Championships
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Events
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in Imola, Van der Breggen was crowned world time trial champion for the first time, having previously taken four silver medals in the event: she finished ahead of Marlen Reusser
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Career
She took up competitive cycling whilst at university, riding in the cycling legs of mixed relay triathlons as an amateur. ...
and Van Dijk after reigning champion Dygert crashed out of the race. She went on to win a second road race world title, following and overhauling an acceleration by Van Vleuten with an attack over the top of the penultimate climb of the Cima Gallisterna with 40 km to the finish, and taking victory with a margin of 1 minute 40 seconds over silver and bronze medallists Van Vleuten and Longo Borghini. In doing so she became only the second rider in history to win world titles in the time trial and the road race in the same year, after Jeannie Longo in 1995. Shortly after the Worlds, Van der Breggen set a new record for wins at Flèche Wallonne
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when she won the race for a sixth time, moving one clear of Vos, outclimbing Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
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and Demi Vollering
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up the final ascent of the Mur de Huy to clinch victory.
2021: Fourth Giro win, retirement
In 2021, Van der Breggen won her fourth Giro Donne, as well as other races including La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (for a record seventh time), the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas, and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. She also won the Dutch National Time Trial Championships for the second time. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
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, she won a bronze medal in the time trial competition, before retiring from professional competition.
''Directeur sportif'' role
Following her retirement, van der Breggen now works as a directeur sportif
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for her final professional team, UCI Women's WorldTeam SD Worx
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Between 2012 and 2020, the team's title sponsors were the Dutch equipment rental company ...
.
Personal life
Van der Breggen lives in Hasselt
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, in the northeast of the Netherlands
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, with her husband Sierk Jan de Haan, who is a coach for UCI WorldTeam
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. She comes from a religious family and is a member of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated)
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. She is a trained nurse, having graduated from nursing school in 2012. Apart from cycling, she plays the piano and enjoys painting and knitting.
Major results
;2007
: 5th Road race, UCI Juniors World Championships The UCI Juniors World Championships were a set of UCI World Championships events for junior bicycle cyclists in 2005 to 2009. In 2010 it was divided into:
*The Junior men's road race at the UCI Road World Championships
*The UCI Juniors Track Worl ...
;2008
: 6th Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships
: 10th Parel van de Veluwe
;2009
: 2nd Ronde van Noordhorn
: 4th Profronde van Surhuisterveen
: 6th Ronde van De Westereen
: 8th Profronde van Stiphout
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)
, anthem ...
: 9th Ronde van Heerenveen
;2010
: 1st Ronde van Noordeloos
: 1st Ronde van Oudewater
: 2nd Ronde van Waddinxveen
: 5th Gouden Pijl
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: 6th Omloop van Strijen
: 9th Profronde van Surhuisterveen
;2011
: 2nd Ronde van Noordeloos
: 5th Berkelse Wielerdag
: 6th Profronde van Stiphout
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)
, anthem ...
: 8th Profronde van Surhuisterveen
;2012
: 1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
: 1st Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin
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::1st Points classification
::1st Young rider classification
::1st Stages 1, 2 ( ITT) & 4
: 1st Duo Normand
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: 1st Ronde van Noordeloos
: 2nd Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
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: is worn by the lea ...
::1st Stage 2 ( TTT)
: 2nd Omloop van de IJsseldelta
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: 2nd Wenduine
: 3rd Ronde van Noordhorn
: 4th GP de Plouay – Bretagne
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It is organized annually since 2002, on the day of the men's race and on the same circuit. The race consists of f ...
: 4th Belsele (Sint-Niklaas)
: 4th Profronde van Surhuisterveen
: 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
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, National Road Championships
: 5th Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden
: 5th Overall Tour Féminin en Limousin
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::1st Young rider classification
::1st Stage 2 ( ITT)
: 6th GP Comune di Cornaredo
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: 6th Ronde van Luyksgestel
: 7th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
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: 9th Tour of Flanders
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;2013
: 1st Omloop van de IJsseldelta
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: 2nd Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
Trophée d'Or Féminin was a women's European Road bicycle racing, bicycle race held in France. The race was discontinued in 2016.
Overall winners
Jerseys
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: is worn by the overall leader of the race
: is worn by the lea ...
: 2nd Ronde van Zuid Oost-Friesland
: 2nd RaboRonde Heerlen
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: 3rd GP de Plouay
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: 4th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
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...
: 4th Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
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: 4th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
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: Open de Suède Vårgårda
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::4th Team time trial
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::5th Road race
: 4th La Flèche Wallonne
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: 4th Holland Hills Classic
: 4th Profwielerronde Etten-Leur
: 4th Berkelse Wielerdag
: 5th Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
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: 5th Overall Tour Languedoc Roussillon
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: 6th Le Samyn des Dames
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: 7th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
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: 7th Tour of Flanders
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: 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
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: 9th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
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: 10th Overall Energiewacht Tour
;2014
: 1st Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
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::1st Points classification
::1st Stage 1
: 1st Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs
::1st Stage 1
: 1st Dwars door de Westhoek
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: 2nd Overall Belgium Tour
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In the first year the tour consisted of three stages and grew with a team time trial
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::1st Mountains classification
::1st Stages 2 ( TTT) & 4
: 2nd Ronde van Drenthe
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: 2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
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: 3rd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
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::1st Mountains classification
: 3rd Overall Giro Rosa
: 4th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
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: 4th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
: 5th GP de Plouay
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: 6th Tour of Flanders for Women
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: 7th Holland Hills Classic
: 10th Ronde van Gelderland
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;2015
: 1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 1st Overall Giro Rosa
::1st Stage 8 ( ITT)
: 1st Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs
::1st Prologue
: 1st La Flèche Wallonne
: 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
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: 1st La Course by Le Tour de France
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: 1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
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: 2nd Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup
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: UCI Road World Championships
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...
::2nd Road race
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::3rd Team time trial
A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events).
The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...
: 2nd Le Samyn des Dames
: 3rd Road race, European Games
The European Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic Games, Olympic tradition contested by sportsperson, athletes from European nations and several European Olympic Committees#Notes, transcontinental countries. The Games were ...
: 3rd Overall Belgium Tour
::1st Mountains classification
::1st Stage 4
: 3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
: 3rd Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organi ...
: 3rd Time trial, EPZ Omloop van Borsele
Omloop van Borsele ("Circuit of Borsele") is an elite women's professional road bicycle race held annually since 2002 in Borsele, Netherlands. Since 2012
File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa ...
: 5th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
The Ladies Tour of Norway is a women's cycle stage race. The first edition of the race was held from 15 to 17 August 2014 based in the town of Halden in south east Norway. It consisted of an individual time trial prologue and two road race stages ...
: 5th Strade Bianche
The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...
: 5th Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda
: 6th GP de Plouay
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Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming
* Gameplanet (New Zealand), a New Zealand video game community
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* ''GamePro'', a monthly video game magazine
* ...
: 7th Overall Energiewacht Tour
::1st Combativity classification
::1st Prologue & Stage 4
: 7th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
: 8th Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
The Emakumeen Euskal Bira was a women's cycling race held in the Basque Country, Spain. It was held annually from 1988 to 2019, starting out as a two-stage race and building up to five stages in 2007. One of these stages was always a double stag ...
;2016
: Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
::1st Road race
::3rd Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
: UEC European Road Championships
::1st Road race
::2nd Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
: 1st Omloop van de IJsseldelta
The Salverda Omloop van de IJsseldelta is a women's one-day cycle race held in the Netherlands. It is rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale
The ''Union Cycliste Internationale'' (UCI; ; en, International Cycling Union) is the world go ...
: 1st La Flèche Wallonne
: 3rd Overall Giro Rosa
: 3rd Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs
: 3rd Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT
: 4th Ronde van Drenthe
Ronde van Drenthe ( en, Tour of Drenthe) is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drenthe, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union. Since 1998 there is also a women's event, kn ...
: 5th Strade Bianche
: 5th Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite
The Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in Italy and is currently rated by the UCI as category 1.Pro.Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy.
Sin ...
: 7th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons ...
;2017
: 1st Overall UCI Women's World Tour
: 1st Overall Giro Rosa
::1st Stage 1 ( TTT)
: 1st Overall Tour of California
: 1st Amstel Gold Race
The Amstel Gold Race is an annual one-day classic road cycling race held in the province of Limburg, Netherlands. It traditionally marks the turning point of the spring classics, with the climbers and stage racers replacing the cobbled classic ...
: 1st La Flèche Wallonne
La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...
: 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
: 1st Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT
: UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
::2nd Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
::2nd Team time trial
A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events).
The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...
::8th Road race
: 2nd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons t ...
::1st Stage 5
: 2nd Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
::1st Stage 2 ( TTT)
: 3rd Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
: 3rd Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
;2018
: UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
::1st Road race
::2nd Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
::2nd Team time trial
A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events).
The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...
: 1st Overall Cyprus Sunshine Cup
::1st Stage 2
: 1st Strade Bianche
: 1st Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and orga ...
: 1st La Flèche Wallonne
La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...
: 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
: 1st Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria is a women's bicycle race
"Bicycle Race" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was released on their 1978 album ''Jazz'' and written by Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury. It was released as a double A- ...
: UEC European Road Championships
::2nd Time trial
::8th Road race
: 2nd Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 2nd La Course by Le Tour de France
La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...
: 2nd Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda WestSweden TTT
: 3rd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
The Emakumeen Euskal Bira was a women's cycling race held in the Basque Country, Spain. It was held annually from 1988 to 2019, starting out as a two-stage race and building up to five stages in 2007. One of these stages was always a double stag ...
::1st Points classification
: 3rd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons ...
: 4th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
::1st Stages 1 ( ITT) & 3b ( TTT)
;2019
: 1st Overall Tour of California
::1st Sprints classification
::1st Stage 1
: 1st Overall Cape Epic
The Absa Cape Epic, founded by Kevin Vermaak and also known as the Cape Epic, is an annual mountain bike stage race held in the Western Cape, South Africa. First staged in 2004, it has been accredited as ''hors catégorie'' (beyond categoriza ...
(with Annika Langvad
Annika Langvad (born 22 March 1984) is a Danish former racing cyclist, who rode for Specialized Racing in cross-country mountain bike racing. Langvad is a five-time World Champion in mountain bike racing, winning four titles in mountain bike ma ...
)
: 1st La Flèche Wallonne
La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...
: 1st GP de Plouay – Bretagne
The Grand Prix de Plouay – Lorient Agglomération is an elite professional women's road bicycle race held in Plouay, France.
It is organized annually since 2002, on the day of the men's race and on the same circuit. The race consists of fou ...
: UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
::2nd Road race
::2nd Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
: 2nd Overall Giro Rosa
::1st Stage 9
: 3rd Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 9th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons ...
: 9th Strade Bianche
: 10th La Course by Le Tour de France
La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...
;2020
: UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
::1st Road race
::1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
: 1st Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
: 1st Road race, National Road Championships
: 1st Overall Giro Rosa
: 1st Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana is an annual professional road bicycle race
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in ...
::1st Stage 2
: 1st La Flèche Wallonne
La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...
: 2nd Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria is a women's bicycle race
"Bicycle Race" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was released on their 1978 album ''Jazz'' and written by Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury. It was released as a double A- ...
: 3rd Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa
: 4th Strade Bianche
;2021
: 1st Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, National Road Championships
: 1st Overall Giro Rosa
::1st Points classification
::1st Stages 2 & 4 ( ITT)
: 1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos Feminas
::1st Points classification
::1st Mountains classification
::1st Stage 4
: 1st La Flèche Wallonne
La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...
: 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
: 1st Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar
Gran may refer to:
People
* Grandmother, affectionately known as "gran"
*Gran (name)
Places
* Gran, the historical German name for Esztergom, a city and the primatial metropolitan see of Hungary
* Gran, Norway, a municipality in Innlandet coun ...
: 1st Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria is a women's bicycle race
"Bicycle Race" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was released on their 1978 album ''Jazz'' and written by Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury. It was released as a double A- ...
: 3rd Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...
, Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
: 3rd Strade Bianche
The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...
: 4th La Course by Le Tour de France
La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...
: 5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Liège–Bastogne–Liège, also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Monuments'' of the European professional r ...
: 8th Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organi ...
General classification results timeline
Classics results timeline
Major championship results timeline
See also
* UCI Women's Road World Cup
The UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup was a season-long road bicycle competition for women organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale between 1998–2015. This competition consisted of a series (which has varied from 6 to 12 events) of rac ...
* UCI Women's World Tour
The UCI Women's World Tour is the premier annual female elite road cycling tour.
History
In order to increase the coverage of Women's cycling the UCI held a summit in December 2014 between the UCI Women’s Working Group and the UCI Women's ...
* List of women's road bicycle races
This is a list of women's road cycling races. The list only includes the most important women's road races, and no track, mountain or cyclo-cross races.
Championships
* UCI Road World Championships: road race, time trial, team time trial
* Afri ...
References
External links
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