Amy Pieters

Amy Pieters
	Amy Pieters (2021)
To person
birth date	1st June 1991 (age 30)
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Road / rail (endurance / short term)
Driver type	Classic specialist
To the team
Current team	SD Worx
function	driver
International team (s)
2010 ; 2011–2016 ; ; 2017–2020 ; 2021	Merida ; Skil / Argos / Giant / Liv ; Wiggle High5 ; Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam ; Team SD Worx
Most important successes
	UCI Road World Championships 2019 - mixed relay 2017, 2018 - team time trial UCI track world championships 2019, 2020, 2021 - two-man team driving 2018 - two-man team driving UEC European Road Championships 2019 - road race 2019 - mixed relay 2021 - mixed relay UCI rail European championships 2017, 2018, 2019 - two-man team driving Track cycling world cup 2011/12 Astana Team Pursuit 2018/19 Hong Kong - two-man team event
	Last updated: December 25, 2021

Amy Pieters (born June 1, 1991 in Haarlem ) is a Dutch cyclist and two-time Olympian (2012, 2020). She is considered a classic specialist .

Athletic career

Even as a youth and junior driver, Amy Pieters won numerous victories, including twelve national titles on the road and track . She has been competing in the elite class since 2010, where she again won numerous Dutch championship titles on the track. At the first round of the Track Cycling World Cup in Astana in 2011/12 , the Dutch three-man team consisting of Pieters, Ellen van Dijk and Kirsten Wild won the team pursuit. In August 2012, she finished sixth in the team pursuit at the Summer Olympics together with Vera Koedooder and Ellen van Dijk. In 2012 she also became the U23 European champion in the singles pursuit .

Since 2014, Pieters has mainly competed on the road . From 2014 to 2016 she won the Dwars door Vlaanderen race three times in a row and in 2014 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad . In addition, she won stages in larger stage races such as the 2014 Qatar Tour . In 2015 and 2016 she won a stage of the Route de France Féminine and in 2016 and 2017 a stage of The Women's Tour . In 2017 she became vice world champion in the team time trial together with the Boels Dolmans cycling team .

Pieters also achieved success on the track: in 2017, she and Kirsten Wild won bronze in the two-man team driving at the European Railway Championships . At the UCI-Bahn World Championships in 2018 , the two athletes became vice world champions in the same discipline.

The following year, at the UCI Track World Championships 2019 in Pruszków , Poland , the two drivers won the world title in this discipline. At the European Road Championships, she won the road race and the mixed relay with the Dutch team . With the world title in the mixed relay in September (together with Lucinda Brand , Riejanne Markus , Koen Bouwman , Bauke Mollema and Jos van Emden ) in the former British county and today's Yorkshire region , 2019 was the best season so far for Pieters.

In spring 2020 she was again world champion in Madison together with Wild in Berlin . At the 2020 Summer Olympics , she finished fourth on August 6, 2021 after a fall by Wild in the Madison. In October 2021, she won the second stage of The Women's Tour in Great Britain .

On December 23, 2021, Amy Pieters had a serious fall during road training for the Dutch national rail team in Calp, Spain . She passed out and had a head operation in the Alicante hospital . She is in intensive care and is in an artificial coma .

Private

Amy Pieters is the daughter of the former cyclist and later cycling trainer Peter Pieters (* 1962), her older brother is the cyclist Roy Pieters (* 1989). The former cyclist and current official Sjaak Pieters is her uncle and the gymnast Ans Dekker is her aunt.