Jaime Nielsen (born 3 September 1985) is a New Zealand

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and road cyclist, and a former representative rower.

Career

From 2003 to 2007, Nielsen competed with the national rowing team. She became world champion at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Poznań, Poland, in 2004 with the U23 women's quadruple sculls with fellow members Bess Halley, Darnelle Timbs and Fiona Paterson. Despite only taking up cycling in 2007, at the team pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships she won silver in

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and bronze in

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. At the

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, she competed in the Women's team pursuit for the New Zealand team which placed 5th and set a national record of 3:18.514. At the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

, she finished 4th in the Women's team pursuit. At the

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, she finished eighth, in Women's team pursuit. Nielsen won the New Zealand National Time Trial Championships in 2014 and was second from 2011 to 2013.Jaime Nielsen
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Major results

Track

;2009 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships ;2010 : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Melbourne ;2011 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester : UCI Track Cycling World Championships ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Team pursuit ::4th Individual pursuit ;2013 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Individual pursuit, National Track Championships : 2nd Omnium, Invercargill ;2014 : Oceania Track Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Team pursuit (with Lauren Ellis, Racquel Sheath and

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) ::3rd

Individual pursuit : 3rd Points race, BikeNZ Cup ;2015 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Individual pursuit, National Track Championships ;2016 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Individual pursuit, National Track Championships : 2nd Silver medal Oceania

Individual pursuit, Oceania Track Championships

Road

;2011 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2012 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2013 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2014 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Time trial, National Road Championships : 4th Time trial, Commonwealth Games ;2015 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Time trial, National Road Championships : 3rd

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: 9th

Chrono Champenois The Chrono Champenois is a European individual time trial bicycle race held around Bétheny in France, in the Champagne region. The race has been organised as a 1.2 event since 1989 for women's and since 1998 there is also a men's race which is ...

: 10th Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol ;2016 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2017 : 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda

Time trial, National Road Championships ;2021 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nielsen, Jaime Living people 1985 births New Zealand female cyclists Olympic cyclists for New Zealand Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics New Zealand track cyclists Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Hamilton, New Zealand Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand New Zealand female rowers Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics University of Waikato alumni Massey University alumni 21st-century New Zealand women