Shanne Braspennincx (born 18 May 1991) is a Dutch

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

. She competed at the

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and

2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling in 2015. They took place in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (part of the Paris Metropolitan Area) at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 18–22 ...

. She won the gold medal in the

keirin – literally "racing cycle" – is a form of motor-paced cycle racing in which track cyclists sprint for victory following a speed-controlled start behind a motorized or non-motorized pacer. It was developed in Japan around 1948 for gambling ...

race at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

Career Results

;2012 :3rd Team Sprint, UEC European U23 Track Championships (with Yesna Rijkhoff) ;2013 :Grand Prix Sprint Apeldoorn ::1st Keirin ::1st Sprint :UEC European U23 Track Championships ::1st UEC Champion Jersey

Keirin ::1st UEC Champion Jersey

Team Sprint (with

Elis Ligtlee Elis Ligtlee (born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch track cyclist. She represented her nation at the 2014 and 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. She won the gold medal in the keirin race at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Following her Olympic victo ...

) ;2014 :1st Keirin, Singen :1st Sprint, US Sprint GP :Fastest Man on Wheels ::1st Keirin ::1st Scratch Race :1st Keirin, Festival of Speed :2nd Keirin, Revolution – Round 4, Manchester :2nd Keirin, Oberhausen :2nd Sprint, Champions of Sprint :2nd Team Sprint, Cottbuser Nächte (with

) :Open des Nations sur Piste de Roubaix ::2nd Team Sprint (with

) ::3rd Keirin :UEC European Track Championships ::3rd Keirin ::3rd Team Sprint (with

) :3rd Keirin, Revolution – Round 3, Manchester :3rd Sprint, Öschelbronn :3rd Sprint, Dudenhofen ;2015 :2nd Keirin, UCI World Track Cycling Championships :Revolution ::2nd Keirin – Round 3, Manchester ::3rd Sprint – Round 3, Manchester :Independence Day Grand Prix ::2nd Sprint ::2nd 500m Time Trial ::3rd Keirin :2nd Sprint, Grand Prix of Colorado Springs :3rd Keirin, Festival of Speed ;2016 :3rd Keirin, Grand Prix of Poland ;2017 :1st Keirin, Fastest Man on Wheels :2nd Internationaal Baan Sprint Keirin Toernooi :3rd Team Sprint,

UEC European Track Championships The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...

(with

Kyra Lamberink Kyra Lamberink (born 15 April 1996) is a Dutch track cyclist, representing Netherlands at international competitions. As a junior, she won the bronze medal at the 2013 European Track Championships (under-23 & junior). She competed at the 2016 UEC ...

) :3rd Keirin, Six Days of Rotterdam :3rd Sprint, Belgian International Track Meeting ;2021 :1st Gold medal olympic

Keirin – literally "racing cycle" – is a form of motor-paced cycle racing in which track cyclists sprint for victory following a speed-controlled start behind a motorized or non-motorized pacer. It was developed in Japan around 1948 for gambling ...

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 vari ...

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* * * * * * 1991 births Living people Dutch female cyclists Cyclists from Turnhout Cyclists at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in cycling European Games silver medalists for the Netherlands European Games bronze medalists for the Netherlands Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in cycling Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1990s-stub