Anna van der Breggen

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Anna van der Breggen Road cycling
Anna van der Breggen as world champion in the road race 2018
Anna van der Breggen as world champion
in the road race 2018
To person
Date of birth 18th April 1990 (age 30)
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Boels Dolmans
function driver
Most important successes
Olympic games
2016 gold - road racing
2016 bronze - individual time trial
UCI Road World Championships
2018 World Champion - road race
UEC European Road Championships
2020 European champion jersey 2016.svg - individual time trial
2016 European champion jersey 2016.svg - road racing
UCI Women's WorldTour
UCI Womens World Tour logo 2016 small.jpgOverall ranking UCI Women's WorldTour 2017
Overall ranking Giro d'Italia Femminile 2015, 2017
Tour of Flanders 2018
Liège – Bastogne – Liège 2017 , 2018
La Flèche Wallonne 2015, 2016, 2017 , 2018, 2019
Amstel Gold Race 2017
Strade Bianche 2018
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2015
La Course by Le Tour de France 2015
Last updated: September 29, 2019

Anna van der Breggen (born April 18, 1990 in Zwolle ) is a Dutch cyclist , Olympic champion and world champion. She is one of the most successful road cyclists in her country in the 2010s.

Career

Anna van der Breggen started cycling at the age of seven, together with her three brothers.

In 2012 she became European U23 road racing champion and won the Tour de Bretagne Féminin . Two years later she won the overall rankings of the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs and the Tour of Norway .

2015 was her most successful year to date with several victories in UCI races, including the Giro d'Italia Femminile , the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine , La Course by Le Tour de France , and a second time the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs . She was also the Dutch road racing champion.

Van der Breggen won gold in road racing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio

Van der Breggen celebrated the greatest success of her career so far on August 7, 2016 at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with victory in the road race over 140 kilometers after she beat Emma Johansson and Elisa Longo Borghini in the finish sprint. In the individual time trial, she also won bronze, eleven seconds behind Kristin Armstrong . In the same year she also became European road champion and European runner-up in the time trial and was able to repeat her victory at Flèche Wallonne from last year.

After three years with Rabo-Liv , she moved to the Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam for the 2017 season . She won the Amstel Gold Race , which was held for women again after a 14-year break, and a few days later for the third time in a row the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine . On the following weekend, it also won the first women’s event in the classic Liège – Bastogne – Liège . So within a week she managed the Ardennes triple . Later in the season, she won the overall standings for the second time at the Giro d'Italia Femminile and won bronze in the time trial at the European Championships . At the end of the season, she was runner-up in the individual time trial and eventually became the 2017 UCI Women's WorldTour winner .

On the podium at the Flèche Wallonne 2018

At the start of the 2018 season, she won the Italian WorldTour one-day race Strade Bianche under adverse weather conditions after an attack on the penultimate gravel section 17 kilometers from the finish. Three weeks later she won the Tour of Flanders with a solo attack 27 kilometers from the finish. She won again at Liège – Bastogne – Liège, distancing Amanda Spratt on the last climb to the finish.

Due to a lack of motivation, Van der Breggen did not start at the Giro d'Italia Femminilie, which she had already won twice, and instead contested a mountain bike world cup in Val di Sole for the first time , but emphasized that her focus is still on road cycling.

A few weeks later she finished second at La Course by Le Tour de France after being overtaken by her compatriot Annemiek van Vleuten just before the finish line. At the European Championships in Glasgow she was able to pull away in the road race 21 kilometers from the finish with a small escape group, but was overtaken by the peloton again one kilometer from the finish, in the time trial she won the silver medal two seconds behind the winner, Ellen van Dijk .

Van der Breggen on the podium at the UCI Road World Championships 2018

At the 2018 World Championships in Innsbruck , she again won the silver medal in the individual time trial, 29 seconds behind defending champion van Vleuten. Four days later, however, she attacked in the road race around 42 kilometers from the finish after Annemiek van Vleuten had stepped up their pace, caught up with the leading group and shortly afterwards distanced her only companion from the former top group, Amanda Spratt. She drove the remaining 39 kilometers alone in the lead and finished with a lead of 3:42 minutes ahead of the Australian. At the world championships the following year, she was two-time runner-up in time trials and road races. During the season she won the Flèche Wallonne , the Tour of California , a stage of the Giro d'Italia Femminile and the Grand Prix de Plouay-Bretagne . At the beginning of the 2020 season, she won the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana .

successes

2012
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Teams

Web links

Commons : Anna van der Breggen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olympic champion Van der Breggen manages the Ardennes triple. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed April 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Lukas Knöfler: Strade Bianche Women 2018: Results. In: cyclingnews.com. March 3, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ Van der Breggen storms to Tour of Flanders victory. In: cyclingnews.com. April 1, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Lukas Knöfler: Anna van der Breggen solos to Liege-Bastogne-Liege victory. In: cyclingnews.com. April 22, 2018, accessed September 30, 2018 . .
  5. ↑ Van der Breggen to skip Giro Rosa defense. In: cyclingnews.com. June 13, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Van der Breggen: I need a change, I want a change. In: cyclingnews.com. June 19, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Van der Breggen comes undone on La Course's final pitch in Le Grand Bornand. In: cyclingnews.com. July 17, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Bastianelli claims European Road Race title. In: cyclingnews.com. August 5, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  9. ^ Daniel Ostanek: Anna van der Breggen solos to world championship title. In: Cyclingnews.com. September 29, 2018, accessed on September 29, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Cycling World Championships: Olympic champion goes to gold orf.at, September 29, 2018, accessed September 29, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Breggen, Anna van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwolle