Jenny Rissveds

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Jenny Rissveds Road cycling
Jenny Rissveds (2017)
Jenny Rissveds (2017)
To person
Date of birth 6th June 1994 (age 26)
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
discipline Mountain bike / cross
To the team
Current team Team 31
function driver
Team (s)
Scott-Odlo
Scott-Sram
Team 31
Most important successes
Olympic games
2016 gold - Cross Country
European championship
2013 European champion - Cross Country
Last updated: March 2, 2020

Jenny Rissveds (born June 6, 1994 in Falun ) is a Swedish cyclist who mainly competes in mountain bike races. She won gold in the cross country discipline at the 2016 Summer Olympics .

Life

In her youth, Rissveds competed in both mountain bike and road races . In 2010 she won gold medals for the first time at the Swedish championships among the junior women. At the European Mountain Bike Championships 2013 2013 she won gold in the women's cross-country eliminator and the silver medal in the U23 race. At the Swedish Championships in 2013, she was also able to achieve the gold medal in the track cycling disciplines of 500 m time trial and elimination . On October 24, 2015, she became the Swedish champion in cyclo-cross racing . In 2016 she became the U23 world champion in cross country.

2016 Summer Olympics

She won her first world cup race in the elite category in Lenzerheide in 2016 . Rissveds competed in the same year at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the mountain bike discipline Cross Country. In the last round of the competition she formed a breakaway duo with Maja Włoszczowska from Poland . An attack enabled Rissveds to leave her opponent behind and win the race and thus the gold medal.

After her success at the Olympic Games, there was a dispute with the Swedish Cycling Federation, because she was supposed to use material from the sponsor of the Swedish national team when participating in the World Championships. A compromise was found, but in the end she did not become a member of the Swedish national team.

Leaving the sport

Rissveds started the 2017 season together with Swiss racing driver Thomas Frischknecht with a victory in the mixed classification of the South African mountain bike race Cape Epic . Shortly afterwards, she canceled her participation in the first World Cup race of the season. She also did not take part in the following three races. In their first two starts, Rissveds ultimately performed well below their previous year's performance. She justified her performance with depression and explained that this had to do with the stress after winning the Olympic gold medal and the death of her two grandfathers. She later also reported on the eating disorders she suffered from. In February 2018 she announced her preliminary retirement and she left her team Scott-Sram.

comeback

In May 2018, Rissveds got back into training. Eventually she became a member of Team 31, where the number 31 stands for Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child . In July 2018 she was again Swedish champion in cross country. In the 2019 season she competed in the World Cup for her new team again, where she celebrated her first World Cup victory after her comeback on August 11, 2019 in Lenzerheide. She finished sixteenth at the Mountain Bike World Championships in August 2019. She finished the 2019 World Cup season in eighth place overall.

Awards

  • 2017: Idrottsgalan (achievement of the year)
  • 2017: Victoriapriset
  • 2017: Hans Majestät Konungens medalj
  • 2019: Idrottsgalan (Fair Play)

Web links

Commons : Jenny Rissveds  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Results - Jenny Rissveds. Retrieved March 2, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ Jenny Rissveds svensk mästare i Cykelcross. Retrieved March 2, 2020 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ WM Nove Mesto: Jenny Rissveds wins U23 gold - Sofia Wiedenroth unlucky - acrossthecountry. Retrieved on March 2, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ A b Adrian Kaether: Jenny Rissveds ends professional career. In: BIKE magazine. February 27, 2018, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Olympics Rio 2016: Sweden's Jenny Rissveds wins gold in women's cross-country. August 20, 2016, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Neal Rogers: Olympic MTB champ Jenny Rissveds breaks contract to address mental health. February 23, 2018, accessed March 2, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ Rissved's regulator gäller för alla. September 7, 2018, accessed March 2, 2020 (Swedish).
  8. ^ A b Emil Bischofberger: Jenny Rissveds - Comeback after Depression. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. August 12, 2019, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Rissveds vann i comebacken: ”Har varit jävligt tufft”. July 21, 2018, accessed March 2, 2020 (Swedish).
  10. ↑ Jenny Rissveds returns to Lenzerheide on Siegerstrasse. August 11, 2019, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Jenny Rissveds length from medalj in VM. August 31, 2019, accessed March 2, 2020 (Swedish).
  12. ↑ TT: Punktering förstörde för Rissveds i USA. September 8, 2019, accessed March 2, 2020 (Swedish).
  13. ↑ Rissveds prisades på Idrottsgalan: "Det är jättestort". January 16, 2017, accessed March 2, 2020 (Swedish).
  14. ↑ Jenny Rissved's tog emot pris - av kronprinsessan. Retrieved March 2, 2020 (Swedish).
  15. ↑ Kungen delade ut medaljer - Sveriges Kungahus. Retrieved March 2, 2020 (Swedish).
  16. ↑ Emma Tonnvik: Här är på vinnarna Idrottsgalan. January 27, 2020, accessed March 2, 2020 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Rissveds, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Falun