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Annemiek van Vleuten (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Movistar Team.[3][4]

Annemiek van Vleuten

Van Vleuten at the 2017 UEC European Track Championships
Personal information
Full name	Annemiek van Vleuten
Nickname	Vleuty Peluchen Miek
Born	(1982-10-08) 8 October 1982 (age 40) Vleuten, Netherlands
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Team information
Current team	Movistar Team
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur teams
2007	Therme Skin Care
2008	Vrienden van het Platteland
Professional teams
2009–2014	Rabo–Liv
2015	Bigla Pro Cycling Team
2016–2020	Mitchelton–Scott[1][2]
2021–	Movistar Team
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France General classification (2022) 2 individual stages (2022) Giro Donne General classification (2018, 2019, 2022) 13 individual stages (2014, 2015, 2017–2020, 2022) Stage races La Route de France (2010) Belgium Tour (2014, 2016) Holland Ladies Tour (2017, 2018) Ladies Tour of Norway (2021) Challenge by La Vuelta (2021, 2022) One day races Olympic Games Time Trial (2021) World Road Race Championships (2019, 2022) World Time Trial Championships (2017, 2018) European Road Championships (2020) National Road Race Championships (2012) National Time Trial Championships (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019) Tour of Flanders (2011, 2021) Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2019, 2022) La Course by Le Tour de France (2017, 2018) Strade Bianche (2019, 2020) Open de Suède Vårgårda (2011) GP de Plouay (2011) Ronde van Drenthe (2010) GP Stad Roeselare (2012) Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race (2017) Other UCI Women's Road World Cup (2011) UCI Women's World Tour (2018, 2021, 2022)
Medal record Women's road cycling Representing  Netherlands Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Time trial 2020 Tokyo Road race World Championships 2017 Bergen Time trial 2018 Innsbruck Time trial 2019 Harrogate Road race 2022 Wollongong Road race 2013 Florence Team time trial 2020 Imola Road race 2021 Flanders Mixed team relay 2019 Harrogate Time trial 2021 Flanders Time trial European Championships 2020 Plouay Road race European Games 2015 Baku Time trial World University Cycling Championship 2008 Nijmegen Time trial 2008 Nijmegen Road race Women's track cycling World Championships 2018 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit

Van Vleuten won the World Championships road race in 2019 and 2022 and the World Championships time trial twice in 2017 and 2018. In the Olympic Games, she crashed out of the lead of the road race in Rio 2016, before winning the gold medal at the time trial event, and a silver in the road race five years later at Tokyo 2020. She won the Dutch National Road Race Championships in 2012, and won the Dutch National Time Trial Championships four times between 2014 and 2019.

Van Vleuten has won both of women's cycling Grand Tours – winning the Giro d'Italia Donne three times in 2018, 2019 and 2022, and winning the Tour de France Femmes in 2022. She became the first woman to complete a Giro – Tour double in the same year.

In winning the UCI Women's Road World Cup in 2011, and the UCI Women's World Tour in 2018 and 2021, Van Vleuten won multiple stage races and one day events. She has won cycling monuments including Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes, Strade Bianche Donne and Tour of Flanders for Women on multiple occasions. She has been awarded Dutch women's cyclist of the year three times. Van Vleuten will retire at the end of the 2023 season.

Career

As a child, Annemiek played football, gymnastics and horse riding – and rode her bike to school. Van Vleuten studied animal sciences and specialised in zoonoses and epidemiology at the University of Wageningen,[5] graduating with a master's degree in epidemiology in 2007. In 2005, she was advised by her doctor to take up cycling following a knee injury playing football.[6][7]

Early career

Starting her cycling career at amateur teams in 2007 aged 25, Van Vleuten joined the Dutch DSB Bank-Nederland Bloeit team in 2009.[7] Quitting her office job in 2010 to become a full time professional cyclist, her first major win was at the 2010 Ronde van Drenthe. She then won La Route de France later that year.[8] In 2011, she won the UCI Women's Road World Cup, winning key races like Tour of Flanders for Women, GP de Plouay – Bretagne and Open de Suède Vårgårda.[9]

In 2012, Van Vleuten represented the Netherlands in the Women's road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics, along with Ellen van Dijk, Marianne Vos and Loes Gunnewijk. The race was won by Vos.[10] She also won the Dutch National Road Race Championships.[11] After a less than successful 2013,[12] she won the Dutch National Time Trial Championship for the first time in 2014.[13] In 2015 she joined the Bigla Pro Cycling Team.[14] She took part in the 2015 European Games for the Netherlands, in cycling, more specifically, the women's time trial; Van Vleuten won a bronze medal.[14]

In 2016, Van Vleuten joined the Orica-AIS team. On 7 August 2016, while leading the road race at the 2016 Olympic Games, Van Vleuten crashed head first on the steep descent from Vista Chinesa after missing her braking point before a sharp bend, 12 km (7.5 mi) before the finish.[15][16] The crash knocked her unconscious, and she was hospitalised with three lumbar spinal fractures and a severe concussion.[17] Despite her injuries, Van Vleuten was riding a bicycle within ten days of her accident[18] and made a winning return to competition one month later, taking the overall victory and two stage wins at the 2016 Belgium Tour.[19] She also won her second Dutch National Time Trial Championship.[20][7]

World Championships, Giro Rosa victories

In 2017, she became world champion for the first time, winning the time trial event in Bergen, Norway. She also won the Holland Ladies Tour, La Course by Le Tour de France, and retained her national Time Trial Championship.[21][7]

2018 was Van Vleuten's most successful year of her career – she won the 2018 Giro Rosa (winning 3 stages), she defended her world title in the time trial at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria, and she won the UCI Women's World Tour after multiple victories at events such as La Course and Holland Ladies Tour.[22] She ended the 2018 season with a total of 13 victories.[7]

In 2019, Van Vleuten defended the Giro Rosa, winning by over 3 minutes and taking all major classifications (general, points and mountain).[7][23] At the 2019 UCI Road World Championships in Harrogate, she won the road race after riding solo for 100 kilometres (62 miles) of the 149-kilometre (93-mile) race, holding back the chasing groups.[24] She also won the Dutch national time trial championship for the fourth time.[25] Despite winning the Giro and major races such as Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes and Strade Bianche Donne, Van Vleuten finished second in the 2019 UCI Women's World Tour standings behind fellow Dutch rider Marianne Vos.

Olympic Games, Giro-Tour-Vuelta triple

In the disrupted 2020 season, she won the European Road Championships, as well as Strade Bianche Donne for the second time.[26] For the 2021 season, Van Vleuten jointed the Movistar Team. She started her season by winning Tour of Flanders for Women, 10 years after her first victory.[27]

In July 2021, she was one of four Dutch cyclists competing in the 137-kilometre (85-mile) women's Olympic road race in Tokyo, where she won the silver medal in the race, crossing the finish line 75 seconds behind Austria's Anna Kiesenhofer.[28][29] With around 60 kilometres (37 miles) left in the race, Van Vleuten crashed, but rejoined the race.[29] Her attack with 2.1 kilometres (1.3 miles) to go secured her second place.[29] When Van Vleuten finished the race, she celebrated thinking she had won, as she was unaware of Kiesenhofer being in front of her.[30][31] Three days later, she became Olympic champion by winning the gold medal in the time trial.[32]

She won the UCI Women's World Tour for the second time, following victories at Challenge by La Vuelta and Ladies Tour of Norway.[27] In October 2021 at the end of the season, she crashed in the first ever Paris–Roubaix Femmes, breaking her pubis bone in two places.[33] In December 2021, Van Vleuten was named Dutch cyclist of the year (Keetie van Oosten-Hage Trophy [nl]) for a third time, winning the award in 2017, 2019 and 2021.[34][35]

In 2022, Van Vleuten started her season by winning two classics – Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes for the second time.[36] In June 2022, Van Vleuten signed a one-year contract extension with the Movistar Team, with the intention to retire from cycling at the end of the 2023 season.[37] She won her third Giro d'Italia Donne the following month, winning two stages and the points classification.[38][39]

Later the same month, she was named as one of the pre-race favourites for the first edition of the Tour de France Femmes.[40] During the Tour she suffered from stomach issues early in the race, which cost her over a minute in the standings and put her near the bottom of the top 10 in the overall standings.[41] On stage 7 she blew the race apart with a solo attack for the stage win, which also put her in the yellow jersey as overall race leader by over 3 minutes ahead of Demi Vollering.[42] The next day she sealed the Tour victory, defeating Vollering on the final climb and claiming her second stage win of the race. Vollering was the only rider to keep her within five minutes and only five other riders were able to keep her within 10 minutes.[43] She became the first woman to complete a Giro – Tour double in the same year.[36] In September, she also won the Vuelta a España, a competition in which she also won the second stage,[44] in doing so completing a Giro-Tour-Vuelta triple,[45] a feat never managed by a male cyclist. At the 2022 World Cycling Championships, Van Vleuten represented the Netherlands in the Individual Time Trial, Mixed Team Time Trial and Road Race. On 24 September 2022, Van Vleuten, racing with a broken right elbow from a crash during the Mixed Relay Team Time Trial earlier in the week, won her second UCI Women's Elite Road Race World Championship in Wollongong, NSW, Australia. After rejoining the lead group of 5 riders she attacked with 600 meters remaining to take the win. In winning the 2022 Road Race title, Van Vleuten became the first women's rider to win cycling's triple crown.

Personal life

Outside of cycling, Van Vleuten lives a low-key life, enjoying scuba diving, watching football, and playing the Settlers of Catan board game with friends.[5][7]

Career achievements

See also

• List of Dutch Olympic cyclists

References

External links

• Annemiek van Vleuten at UCI
• Annemiek van Vleuten at Cycling Archives
• Annemiek van Vleuten at ProCyclingStats
• Annemiek van Vleuten at Cycling Quotient
• Annemiek van Vleuten at CycleBase
• Annemiek van Vleuten at Olympedia
• Annemiek van Vleuten at NOC*NSF (in Dutch)

На других языках

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[de] Annemiek van Vleuten

Annemiek van Vleuten (* 8. Oktober 1982 in Vleuten) ist eine niederländische Radrennfahrerin. Sie ist Olympiasiegerin und mehrfache Weltmeisterin und eine der erfolgreichsten Straßenradsportlerinnen der 2010er und beginnenden 2020er Jahre.

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- [en] Annemiek van Vleuten

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[es] Annemiek van Vleuten

Annemiek Adriana van Vleuten (Vleuten[n 1], 8 de octubre de 1982) es una deportista neerlandesa que compite en ciclismo en las modalidades de ruta y pista.[1]

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[fr] Annemiek van Vleuten

Annemiek van Vleuten, née le 8 octobre 1982 à Vleuten, est une coureuse cycliste néerlandaise, membre de l'équipe Movistar. Coureuse polyvalente, elle excelle en contre-la-montre et en montagne. À son palmarès, elle compte un titre de championne olympique contre-la-montre en 2020, deux titres de championne du monde sur route, deux titres de championne du monde du contre-la-montre en 2017 et 2018, ainsi qu'un titre de championne d'Europe sur route. Elle remporte également la Coupe du monde 2011, le classement mondial en 2017 et 2018, ainsi que l'UCI World Tour en 2018 et 2021. Parmi ses nombreuses victoires, on compte deux Tours des Flandres en 2011 et 2021, ainsi que trois Tours d'Italie en 2018, 2019 et 2022 et le Tour de France en 2022.

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[it] Annemiek van Vleuten

Annemiek van Vleuten (Vleuten, 8 ottobre 1982) è una ciclista su strada, pistard, ciclocrossista e mountain biker olandese che corre per il Movistar Team. Considerata tra le più forti cicliste della storia,[1] è un'atleta polivalente, benché specializzata nelle classiche e nelle cronometro.[2] Ha vinto la Coppa del mondo su strada nel 2011 e il World Tour nel 2018 e nel 2021, due medaglie olimpiche a Tokyo 2020 (argento in linea, oro a cronometro), due titoli mondiali in linea (nel 2019 e 2022) e due a cronometro (nel 2017 e 2018), un titolo europeo in linea (nel 2020), un Tour de France (nel 2022) e tre Giri d'Italia (nel 2018, nel 2019 e nel 2022).

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[ru] Ван Влёйтен, Аннемик

Аннеми́к Адриа́на ван Влёйтен (нидерл. Annemiek Adriana van Vleuten; род. 8 октября 1982 года, Влёйтен, провинция Утрехт) — нидерландская велогонщица, олимпийская чемпионка 2020 года и трёхкратная чемпионка мира по шоссейным велогонкам, чемпионка Европы, призёр чемпионата мира по трековым велогонкам.

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