Annemiek van Vleuten

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Annemiek van Vleuten Road cycling
Annemiek van Vleuten (2017)
Annemiek van Vleuten (2017)
To person
Date of birth 8th October 1982 (age 37)
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Mitchelton Scott
function driver
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2019 World Champion - road race
2017, 2018 World Champion - individual time trial
UCI track world championships
2018 silver - One Pursuit
UCI Women's WorldTour
Overall ranking Giro d'Italia Femminile 2018, 2019
Overall ranking Holland Ladies Tour 2017, 2018
La Course by Le Tour de France 2017, 2018
Liège – Bastogne – Liège 2019
Strade Bianche 2020
UCI cycling world cup
Tour of Flanders 2011
Grand Prix de Plouay-Bretagne 2011
Open de Suède Vårgårda 2011
UCI racing series
UCI Womens World Tour logo 2016 small.jpg UCI Women's WorldTour 2018
Union-Cycliste-Internationale-Logo.svg UCI Cycling World Cup 2011
Last updated: August 1st, 2020

Annemiek van Vleuten (born October 8, 1982 in Vleuten ) is a Dutch cyclist and three-time world champion (2017, 2018, 2019). She is one of the most successful road cyclists in her country in the 2010s.

Cycling career

Annemiek van Vleuten did not get into competitive cycling until she was 24. In 2008 she was second in the individual time trial and third in the road race at the University Road World Championships in Nijmegen . In 2010 she won the Route de France Féminine and was seventh overall in the Giro della Toscana Femminile . In 2011 she won the Tour of Flanders , the Open de Suède Vårgårda and the Grand Prix de Plouay and thus won the overall ranking of the Women's Cycling World Cup .

In 2013 Annemiek van Vleuten became vice world champion in the team time trial together with Marianne Vos , Roxane Knetemann , Pauline Ferrand-Prévot , Thalita de Jong and Lucinda Brand . At the 2016 Olympic Games , she and Mara Abbott pulled away from a top group of four on the last climb in the road race and initially distanced Abbott on the downhill, but then fell badly and suffered three chipped bones in the lumbar spine and a severe concussion.

Van Vleuten at La Course by Le Tour de France 2017

The following year she won the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and became the Dutch time trial champion for the third time. At the Giro d'Italia Femminile , she won two stages and came third in the overall standings. She also won the mountain finish on the Col d'Izoard at La Course by Le Tour de France and won the overall ranking of the Boels Rental Ladies Tour . At the end of the year van Vleuten became world champion in the individual time trial and was first in the UCI World Ranking of women.

On the podium at the UCI Rail World Championships 2018

In 2018 van Vleuten won the Giro d'Italia Femminile, where she won the mountain time trial and the mountain finish on Monte Zoncolan in her three stage victories . Two days later she was able to repeat her previous year's victory at La Course by Le Tour de France, where the Dutchwoman caught her compatriot Anna van der Breggen shortly before the finish line. As the year progressed, she won the Boels Ladies Tour and took the lead in the UCI Women's World Tour ranking.

Van Vleuten defended her time trial title at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships

At the UCI Road World Championships 2018 in Innsbruck, she won the individual time trial over 27.7 kilometers for the second time, with a lead of 29 seconds over van der Breggen. In the street race that followed, she attacked unsuccessfully and finished seventh. After the race it turned out that she had broken the head of the tibia in her knee in a fall about 100 kilometers from the finish before her attack . She finished the season as the winner of the UCI Women's WorldTour Ranking.

At the end of January 2019 she resumed her cycling training. In the UCI Women's WorldTour 2019 van Vleuten won the Strade Bianche and the Giro d'Italia Femminile , came second in the Tour of Flanders, the Amstel Gold Race and the Flèche Wallone and won after a solo trip over 30 kilometers at Liège-Bastogne-Liège . At the UCI Road World Championships in 2019 in Yorkshire , England , Annemiek van Vleuten won the road race title after a solo journey of 104 kilometers with a 2:15 minute lead over the closest pursuer Anna van der Breggen in the time trial.

After winning the world championship, van Vleuten won the first five races in a row in the 2020 season, which was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic , including the WorldTour race Strade Bianche .

Honors

  • For several years Annemiek van Vleuten was voted “Sportswoman of the Year” in her place of residence in Wageningen .

successes

Street

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

train

2018

Teams

Web links

Commons : Annemiek van Vleuten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Van der Breggen wins gold in the Olympic road race. radsport-news.com, August 7, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Van Vleuten with lumbar vertebra injury and concussion on aargauerzeitung.ch, accessed on September 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ Transported away in a wheelchair: Van Vleuten breaks the head of his tibia. In: radsport-news.com. September 30, 2018, accessed September 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Van Vleuten fully trained again. In: rad-net.de. January 7, 2019, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ After the Redoute attack, van Vleuten became very quiet. In: radsport-news.com. April 28, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Crazy plan leads Van Vleuten to World Cup gold! In: radsport-news.com. September 28, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 5 of 5: Van Vleuten cannot be stopped even in Tuscany. In: radsport-news.com. August 1, 2020, accessed August 2, 2020 .
  8. ^ Van Vleuten Sportvrouw van het Jaar. In: gelderlander.nl. December 11, 2012, accessed June 25, 2016 (Dutch).
  9. ↑ Procycling's February 2020 issue out now (January 24, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Vleuten, Annemiek van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Vleuten