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Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970) is a Dutch retired racing cyclist. She was a dominant cyclist in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games and holding the hour record for women from 2003 until 2015.
Van Moorsel started her career in 1977. She won major races both on the
Oud-wielerarts: Leontien van Moorsel gebruikte epo
(in Dutch), ''de Volkskrant'', 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
National Novice Road Race Championships
;1987
:1st National Novice Road Race Championships
;1988
:1st National Road Race Championships
;1989
:1st National Road Race Championships
:1st Stage 1 Tour of Norway
;1990
:1st 
1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
:1st 1990 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Team Time Trial
:1st National Road Race Championships
:2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
:National Track Championship
::3rd Points race
::3rd Individual sprint
:3rd Chrono des Nations
;1991
:1st 1991 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Road Race
:1st National Track Championships (Team pursuit)
:1st 
Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
:3rd National Road Race Championships
;1992
:1st National Road Race Championships
:National Track Championship
::1st Individual pursuit
::2nd Points race
:1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
;1993
:1st 1993 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Road Race
:1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
:1st National Road Race Championships
:2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
;1997
:1st National Time Trial Championships
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::2nd Points race
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Stages 1 & 3
;1998
:1st 
1998 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Time Trial
:National Road Championships
::1st Road Race
::1st Time Trial
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Points race
:1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
::1st Stages 1 & 3
:1st Parel van de Veluwe
:1st Omloop der Kempen
:2nd Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
::1st Stage 1
:2nd 1998 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Road Race
:2nd 1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
;1999
:1st 1999 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Time Trial
:National Road Championships
::1st Road Race
::1st Time Trial
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Points race
:1st 
Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
::1st Stages 2 & 7
:1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
::1st Stages 2 & 3
:1st Overall Greenery International
::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 2
:1st Damesronde van Drenthe
:1st Omloop van Kanaleneiland
:1st Omloop der Kempen
:2nd Rotterdam Tour
;2000
:2000 Olympic Games, Olympic Games
::1st 
Road Race
::1st Time Trial
::1st Individual pursuit
::2nd 
Points race
:National Road Championships
::1st Time Trial
::2nd Road Race
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Points race
:1st Overall Emakumeen Bira
:1st Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
:1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
::1st Stages 1 & 2
:1st Overall Westfriese Dorpenomloop
::1st Prologue & Stage 1
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Stages 1, 2a & 2b
:1st Ronde van het Ronostrand
:1st Omloop der Kempen
:1st Stages 1, 2 & 4 Giro d'Italia Femminile
;2001
:1st 2001 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
:1st National Time Trial Championships
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Points race
:1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
::1st Stages 2 & 3
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Stages 2 & 3
:1st Acht van Chaam
:1st Egmond-Pier-Egmond
:1st Souvenir Magali Pache
:1st Profronde van Stiphout
:1st Profronde van Surhuisterveen
:1st Prologue Giro d'Italia Femminile
:1st Stage 1 Boels Rental Ladies Tour
:3rd Amstel Gold Race (women's race), Amstel Gold Race
;2002
:1st 2002 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
:National Road Championships
::1st Time Trial
::2nd Road Race
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Points race
:1st Overall RaboSter Zeeuwsche Eilanden
::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3a
:1st Overall Westfriese Dorpenomloop
::1st Stages 1 & 2
:1st Amstel Gold Race (women's race), Amstel Gold Race
:1st Damesronde van Drenthe
:1st Acht van Chaam
:1st Egmond-Pier-Egmond
:1st Profronde van Stiphout,
;2003
:1st 2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Stage 3
:1st Omloop van Borsele
:2nd National Time Trial Championships
:World Hour record
;2004
:2004 Olympic Games, Olympic Games
::1st Time Trial
::3rd 
Individual pursuit
:1st National Road Race Championships
:1st Ronde van Gelderland
:1st Omloop der Kempen
:1st Profronde van Stiphout
:1st Acht van Chaam
Career
Van Moorsel started her career in 1977. She won major races both on the track
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, and on the road
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. In the first half of the 1990s, she won the Tour Féminin twice, after fierce competition with Jeannie Longo
Jeannie Longo (born 31 October 1958 in Annecy, Haute-Savoie) is a French racing cyclist, 25-time French champion and 13-time world champion. Longo began racing in 1975 and was active in cycling through 2012. She was once widely considered the be ...
.
Van Moorsel dropped out of cycling in 1994 with anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa, often referred to simply as anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by low weight, food restriction, body image disturbance, fear of gaining weight, and an overpowering desire to be thin. ''Anorexia'' is a term of Gr ...
but recovered to compete at the World Championships in 1998, winning the time trial and coming second in the road race.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics
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in Sydney
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, van Moorsel won gold medals on the road (road race and time trial), and on the track (3 km pursuit). At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she fell in the penultimate lap of the road race and was stretchered off and taken to the hospital by ambulance, but nevertheless successfully defended her time trial title two days later.
Her four gold medals tie her with Ireen Wüst, Inge de Bruijn, Charles Pahud de Mortanges and Fanny Blankers-Koen for the most ever by a Dutch athlete at the Olympics.
She set a new world hour record for women of 46.065 km, in 2003 in Mexico City, which was not improved upon for almost 12 years, when UCI rule changes prompted a new succession of attempts.
Van Moorsel retired from professional cycling after the 2004 Olympics.
In 2017 Van Moorsel became director of the Amstel Gold Race (women's race), Women's Amstel Gold Race.
In September 2017, Van Moorsel was accused by sports physician Peter Janssen of using Erythropoietin, EPO in 2000 and 2001.Thomas Blom & Misha Wessel,Oud-wielerarts: Leontien van Moorsel gebruikte epo
(in Dutch), ''de Volkskrant'', 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
Major results
;1985 :1st National Novice Road Race Championships
;1987
:1st National Novice Road Race Championships
;1988
:1st National Road Race Championships
;1989
:1st National Road Race Championships
:1st Stage 1 Tour of Norway
;1990
:1st 1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
:1st 1990 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Team Time Trial
:1st National Road Race Championships
:2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
:National Track Championship
::3rd Points race
::3rd Individual sprint
:3rd Chrono des Nations
;1991
:1st 1991 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Road Race
:1st National Track Championships (Team pursuit)
:1st Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
:3rd National Road Race Championships
;1992
:1st National Road Race Championships
:National Track Championship
::1st Individual pursuit
::2nd Points race
:1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
;1993
:1st 1993 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Road Race
:1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
:1st National Road Race Championships
:2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
;1997
:1st National Time Trial Championships
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::2nd Points race
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Stages 1 & 3
;1998
:1st 1998 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Time Trial
:National Road Championships
::1st Road Race
::1st Time Trial
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Points race
:1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
::1st Stages 1 & 3
:1st Parel van de Veluwe
:1st Omloop der Kempen
:2nd Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
::1st Stage 1
:2nd 1998 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Road Race
:2nd 1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
;1999
:1st 1999 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships Time Trial
:National Road Championships
::1st Road Race
::1st Time Trial
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Points race
:1st Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
::1st Stages 2 & 7
:1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
::1st Stages 2 & 3
:1st Overall Greenery International
::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 2
:1st Damesronde van Drenthe
:1st Omloop van Kanaleneiland
:1st Omloop der Kempen
:2nd Rotterdam Tour
;2000
:2000 Olympic Games, Olympic Games
::1st Road Race
::1st Time Trial
::1st Individual pursuit
::2nd Points race
:National Road Championships
::1st Time Trial
::2nd Road Race
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Points race
:1st Overall Emakumeen Bira
:1st Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
:1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
::1st Stages 1 & 2
:1st Overall Westfriese Dorpenomloop
::1st Prologue & Stage 1
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Stages 1, 2a & 2b
:1st Ronde van het Ronostrand
:1st Omloop der Kempen
:1st Stages 1, 2 & 4 Giro d'Italia Femminile
;2001
:1st 2001 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
:1st National Time Trial Championships
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Points race
:1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
::1st Stages 2 & 3
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Stages 2 & 3
:1st Acht van Chaam
:1st Egmond-Pier-Egmond
:1st Souvenir Magali Pache
:1st Profronde van Stiphout
:1st Profronde van Surhuisterveen
:1st Prologue Giro d'Italia Femminile
:1st Stage 1 Boels Rental Ladies Tour
:3rd Amstel Gold Race (women's race), Amstel Gold Race
;2002
:1st 2002 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
:National Road Championships
::1st Time Trial
::2nd Road Race
:National Track Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Points race
:1st Overall RaboSter Zeeuwsche Eilanden
::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3a
:1st Overall Westfriese Dorpenomloop
::1st Stages 1 & 2
:1st Amstel Gold Race (women's race), Amstel Gold Race
:1st Damesronde van Drenthe
:1st Acht van Chaam
:1st Egmond-Pier-Egmond
:1st Profronde van Stiphout,
;2003
:1st 2003 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
:1st Overall Boekel
::1st Stage 3
:1st Omloop van Borsele
:2nd National Time Trial Championships
:World Hour record
;2004
:2004 Olympic Games, Olympic Games
::1st Time Trial
::3rd Individual pursuit
:1st National Road Race Championships
:1st Ronde van Gelderland
:1st Omloop der Kempen
:1st Profronde van Stiphout
:1st Acht van Chaam
Personal life
Van Moorsel married former track cyclist Michael Zijlaard in October 1995. They have a daughter.See also
* List of Dutch Olympic cyclists *List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single GamesReferences
External links
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