Marlen Reusser (born 20 September 1991) is a Swiss

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, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .

Career

She took up competitive cycling whilst at university, riding in the cycling legs of mixed relay

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s as an amateur. She entered the road events of the Swiss national cycling championships in 2017, a few months after receiving a racing licence and whilst in the final year of studies for a degree in medicine: she won the

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and was runner up in the road race. Her success earned her selection for that year's

European Road Championships The European Road Cycling Championships are the set of European championship events for the various disciplines and distances in road cycling and have been regulated by the European Cycling Union since 1995. The championships are for under-23, j ...

. She also rode in the women's time trial event at the

2017 UCI Road World Championships The 2017 UCI Road World Championships were held in 2017 in Bergen, Norway. It was the 90th UCI Road World Championships and the second to be held in Norway, after the 1993 world championships in Oslo. Chantal Blaak of the Netherlands won the wom ...

. In 2019 Reusser took up a place at the

World Cycling Centre The World Cycling Centre (WCC, french: Centre Mondial du Cyclisme) is a coaching and training centre in Aigle, Switzerland. It contains a indoor velodrome, a BMX racing track and other non-cycling facilities. It was built in 2002 to celebrate the ...

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, deciding to ride full-time. During her year with the WCC she finished third at the

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and sixth in the World Championship individual time trial. The following year she took a top 10 finish at

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. She also rode in the

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at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships in

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, where she won the silver medal. For the 2021 season, Reusser joined the team, following the collapse of . After one season there, she joined in 2022. She won stage 4 of the

2022 Tour de France The 2022 Tour de France was the 109th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Copenhagen, Denmark on 1 July 2022 and ended with the final stage on the Champs-Élysées, Paris on 24 July 2022. Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard () won the general clas ...

in a solo breakaway. She was also named most combative rider for the day.

Personal life

Marleen Reusser grew up in a farming family in the Swiss

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. Until 16 she played violin, and participated at an arts support program at the

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. In school she started running, after a couple of ankle injuries she switched to swimming and cycling. 2008–2009 she was president of the

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ese Young Greens. After

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she studied

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and worked as assistant doctor for surgery. 2017–2018 she was in the board of the Emmental Green Party. During the preparation for the road world championship 2018 in

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, she worked part time as a doctor in the Langnau hospital.Die velofahrende Ärztin (The cycling doctor)
Berner Zeitung, 23 March 2018.

Major results

;2017 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotSuiza

Time trial ::2nd Road race ;2019 : 1st MaillotSuiza

Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Gold medal blank

Time trial, European Games : 1st Ljubljana–Domžale–Ljubljana TT : 3rd

: 4th SwissEver GP Cham–Hagendorn : 5th Overall The Princess Maha Chackri Sirindhorn's Cup : 6th

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 ...

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;2020 : 1st MaillotSuiza

Time trial, National Road Championships : 2nd Silver medal blank

: UEC European Road Championships ::2nd Silver medal europe

Team relay ::3rd Bronze medal europe

Time trial ;2021 : UEC European Road Championships ::1st European champion jersey 2016

Time trial ::7th Road race : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotSuiza

Time trial ::1st MaillotSuiza

Road race : 1st Stage 2 ( ITT)

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 ...

: 1st

Chrono des Nations Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendée is a single-day individual time trial road bicycle race held annually in October in Les Herbiers, Vendée, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI E ...

: 2nd Overall

Challenge by La Vuelta The Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta (La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta before 2020) is an elite women's professional bicycle race held in Spain, and has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016. Similar to La Course by Le Tour de France ...

::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Silver medal olympic

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: 2nd

: 4th Overall

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: 9th

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 ...

;2022 :

::1st

Team relay ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Time trial : 1st Stage 4

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

: 3rd Overall Bloeizone Fryslân Tour : 4th

Brabantse Pijl The Brabantse Pijl ( en, Brabant Arrow, french: italic=yes, Flèche Brabançonne or ''Flèche Branconne'') is a Flanders Classics road bicycle race held annually in Flemish Brabant and in Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Since 2005, the race has been or ...

: 5th

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reusser, Marlen 1991 births Living people Swiss female cyclists Sportspeople from the canton of Bern Cyclists at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in cycling European Games gold medalists for Switzerland Olympic cyclists of Switzerland Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland Olympic medalists in cycling UCI Road World Champions (women) 20th-century Swiss women 21st-century Swiss women