Annemiek Van Vleuten

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Annemiek van Vleuten

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

2019, 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, Van Vleuten at the 2017 UEC European
and the UCI Women's World Tour in 2018 and 2021, Track Championships
Van Vleuten won multiple stage races and one day Personal information
events. She has won cycling monuments including
Full name Annemiek van Vleuten
Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes, Strade Bianche Donne
and Tour of Flanders for Women on multiple occasions. Nickname Vleuty
She has been awarded Dutch women's cyclist of the year Peluchen
three times. Van Vleuten will retire at the end of the
Miek
2023 season.
The Alien
Born 8 October 1982
Contents Vleuten, Netherlands

Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Career
Early career Weight 59 kg (130 lb)
World Championships, Giro Rosa victories Team information
Olympic Games, Giro-Tour double Current team Movistar Team
Personal life Discipline Road
Career achievements Role Rider
See also Rider type All-rounder
References Amateur teams
External links 2007 Therme Skin Care
2008 Vrienden van het Platteland
Professional teams
Career 2009–2014 Rabo–Liv
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As a child, Annemiek played football, gymnastics and 2015 Bigla Pro Cycling Team
horse riding – and rode her bike to school. Van Vleuten 2016–2020 Mitchelton–Scott[1][2]
studied animal sciences and specialised in zoonoses and 2021– Movistar Team
epidemiology at the University of Wageningen,[5] Major wins
graduating with a master's degree in epidemiology in
2007. In 2005, she was advised by her doctor to take up List
cycling following a knee injury playing football.[6][7] Grand Tours
Tour de France
Early career
General classification (2022)
Starting her cycling career at amateur teams in 2007 2 individual stages (2022)
aged 25, Van Vleuten joined the Dutch DSB Bank-
Nederland Bloeit team in 2009.[7] Quitting her office job Giro Donne
in 2010 to become a full time professional cyclist, her
General classification (2018,
first major win was at the 2010 Ronde van Drenthe. She
2019, 2022)
then won La Route de France later that year.[8] In 2011,
she won the UCI Women's Road World Cup, winning 13 individual stages (2014,
key races like Tour of Flanders for Women, GP de 2015, 2017–2020, 2022)
Plouay – Bretagne and Open de Suède Vårgårda.[9]
Stage races
In 2012, Van Vleuten represented the Netherlands in the
La Route de France (2010)
Women's road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics, along
with Ellen van Dijk, Marianne Vos and Loes Gunnewijk. Belgium Tour (2014, 2016)
The race was won by Vos.[10] She also won the Dutch Holland Ladies Tour (2017, 2018)
National Road Race Championships.[11] After a less than Ladies Tour of Norway (2021)
successful 2013,[12] she won the Dutch National Time Challenge by La Vuelta (2021)
Trial Championship for the first time in 2014.[13] In
One day races
2015 she joined the Bigla Pro Cycling Team.[14] She took
part in the 2015 European Games for the Netherlands, Olympic time trial (2021)
in cycling, more specifically, the women's time trial; Van
World Road Race Championships
Vleuten won a bronze medal.[14]
(2019)
In 2016, Van Vleuten joined the Orica-AIS team. On 7 World Time Trial Championships
August 2016, while leading the road race at the 2016 (2017, 2018)
Olympic Games, Van Vleuten crashed head first on the European Road Championships
steep descent from Vista Chinesa after missing her (2020)
braking point before a sharp bend, 12 km (7.5 mi) before National Road Race Championships
the finish.[15][16] The crash knocked her unconscious, (2012)
and she was hospitalised with three lumbar spinal National Time Trial Championships
fractures and a severe concussion.[17] Despite her (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019)
injuries, Van Vleuten was riding a bicycle within ten
Tour of Flanders (2011, 2021)
days of her accident[18] and made a winning return to
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2019, 2022)
competition one month later, taking the overall victory
La Course by Le Tour de France
and two stage wins at the 2016 Belgium Tour.[19] She
also won her second Dutch National Time Trial (2017, 2018)
Championship.[20][7] Open de Suède Vårgårda (2011)
GP de Plouay – Bretagne (2011)
Ronde van Drenthe (2010)
World Championships, Giro Rosa victories GP Stad Roeselare (2012)
7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg (2012)
In 2017, she became world champion for the first time, Omloop der Kempen (2013)
winning the time trial event in Bergen, Norway. She also
won the Holland Ladies Tour, La Course by Le Tour de
France, and retained Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road

her national Time Race (2017)
Trial Strade Bianche Donne (2019, 2020)
Championship.[21][7]
Other
UCI Women's Road World Cup

(2011)
Van Vleuten defended her world title UCI Women's World Tour (2018,
in the time trial at the 2018 UCI 2021)
Road World Championships
Medal record
2018 was Van Vleuten's most successful year of her Women's road cycling
career – she won the 2018 Giro Rosa (winning 3 stages),
Representing Netherlands
she defended her world title in the time trial at the 2018
UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria, Olympic Games
and she won the UCI Women's World Tour after 2020 Tokyo Time trial
multiple victories at events such as La Course and 2020 Tokyo Road race
Holland Ladies Tour.[22] She ended the 2018 season
World Championships
with a total of 13 victories.[7]
2017 Bergen Time trial
In 2019, Van Vleuten defended the Giro Rosa, winning 2018 Innsbruck Time trial
by over 3 minutes and taking all major classifications
2019 Harrogate Road race
(general, points and mountain).[7][23] At the 2019 UCI
Road World Championships in Harrogate, she won the 2013 Florence Team time trial
road race after riding solo for 100 kilometres (62 miles) 2020 Imola Road race
of the 149-kilometre (93-mile) race, holding back the
2021 Flanders Mixed team relay
chasing groups.[24] She also won the Dutch national
time trial championship for the fourth time.[25] Despite 2019 Harrogate Time trial
winning the Giro and major races such as Liège– 2021 Flanders Time trial
Bastogne–Liège Femmes and Strade Bianche Donne, European Championships
Van Vleuten finished second in the 2019 UCI Women's
World Tour standings behind fellow Dutch rider 2020 Plouay Road race
Marianne Vos. European Games
2015 Baku Time trial
Olympic Games, Giro-Tour double World University Cycling

Championship
2008 Nijmegen Time trial
2008 Nijmegen Road race
Women's track cycling
World Championships
2018 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit
In the disrupted 2020 season, she won the European Road

Racing bike used by Van Vleuten in
2020 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) 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
Van Vleuten in the yellow jersey at and put her near the bottom of the top 10 in the overall
the 2022 Tour de France Femmes 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]
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
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External links
Annemiek van Vleuten (https://www.uci.org/rider-details/60655) at UCI
Annemiek van Vleuten (http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=40699) at
Cycling Archives
Annemiek van Vleuten (https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/134509) at ProCyclingStats
Annemiek van Vleuten (https://cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/rider.asp?riderid=1986) at
Cycling Quotient
Annemiek van Vleuten (https://www.cyclebase.nl/cb-content/index.php?lang=en&page=renner
&id=37006) at CycleBase
Annemiek van Vleuten (https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/121890) at Olympedia
Annemiek van Vleuten (https://nocnsf.nl/annemiek-van-vleuten) at NOC*NSF (in Dutch)
(English translation (https://nocnsf-nl.translate.goog/annemiek-van-vleuten?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_
tl=en))
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Van Vleuten won the World Championships road race in

Van Vleuten has won both of women's cycling Grand

Contents Vleuten, Netherlands

France, and retained Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road

UCI Women's Road World Cup

Olympic Games, Giro-Tour double World University Cycling

In the disrupted 2020 season, she won the European Road

In 2022, Van Vleuten started her season by winning two

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