Jolanda Neff

Jolanda Neff

Jolanda Neff as 2018 European MTB Champion
To person
Date of birth	5th January 1993 (age 27)
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Mountain bike , road , cyclocross
Team (s)
Discipline 2012 2013 2014 2015–2016 2017–2018 2019 Discipline 2013 2015–2016 2019 Discipline 2019/20	Cross Country Wheeler IXS Team Giant Pro XC Team Liv Pro XC Team Stöckli Pro Team Kross Racing Team Trek-Segafredo Road Cycling Rabobank Women Cycling Team Servetto-Footon Trek-Segafredo Radquer Trek Factory Racing CX
Most important successes
World cup Mountain bike world cup 2014 , 2015 , 2018 World championships Mountain bike world champion 2017 Mountain bike relay women world champion 2017 Mountain bike relay mixed world champion 2017 World Championship Mountain Bike Marathon 2016 European championships European Cross Country Champion 2015, 2016, 2018 European Champion Cross Country Relay 2016 European Games European game winner - Cross Country 2015 Swiss Championships Swiss Champion - Road Race 2015 , 2018 Swiss Champion - Cross Country 2014 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2020
Team (s) as sporting director
	Mountain bike world championships 2017
Last updated: December 26, 2019

Jolanda Neff (born January 5, 1993 ) is a Swiss cyclist from Thal . It is three times the U23 World Champion in mountain biking - cross country (2012, 2013, 2014), three times the mountain bike World Cup champion (2014, 2015, 2018), World Champion in mountain bike marathon (2016) and Cross Country (2017).

Career

Jolanda Neff was introduced to the mountain bike sport as a child by her father Markus Neff (mountain bike vice world champion 1997) .

U23 world champion 2012

In September 2012 Jolanda Neff became U23 world champion in cross country and elite runner-up in eliminator in Austria .

In the 2013 season she started for the on the road for the UCI Women's Team Rabobank . The multiple Swiss champion is looked after by her father Markus Neff and Leo van Seeland. In August of this year she was able to repeat her success from the previous year at the MTB World Championship in South Africa and again became U23 World Champion Cross Country and in September elite runner-up in the Eliminator.

In August 2014, after Barbara Blatter (2001), she was the first to win the overall World Cup for a Swiss woman again - at the age of 21, she was the youngest overall winner in the history of the Mountain Bike World Cup. A fourth place in the penultimate race of the season secured her this success in the United States.

In the 2015 season, Neff started for the Stöckli Pro Team . In May she was runner-up in the European mountain bike marathon, and on May 31, she won the second World Cup race of the current season in Albstadt. In June she took part in the 2015 European Games in Baku and won the gold medal in cross country. At the Mountain Bike World Championships 2015 in Andorra, she started in the elite category for the first time.

2016 Summer Olympics

In May 2016 she was able to successfully defend her European Championship individual title in cross country in Huskvarna. In June she became world champion mountain bike marathon.
At the Olympic Games, she finished eighth in road races and sixth in mountain bikes . As in 2014 and 2015, she was number one in mountain biking on the UCI world rankings at the end of 2016. 

In September 2017, she became world champion in cross-country in Cairns, Australia.

In the 2018 season, Jolanda Neff started as world champion for the Kross Racing Team. In May she finished second behind the Danish Annika Langvad at the UCI Cross-Country Short Track (XCC) MTB World Cup after 23:58 minutes in Albstadt . At the last World Cup race in La Bresse, France, she won the overall World Cup with three victories of the season. In August she became the European cross-country champion for the third time in Glasgow .

In August 2019, the 26-year-old finished second at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Canada, making it runner-up behind the French Pauline Ferrand-Prévot . In December, Jolanda Neff was seriously injured in a training crash in the USA.

Sporting successes

Mountain Bike European Championships 2018 in Glasgow

Awards

• In January 2015 Jolanda Neff was named “Rheintaler Sportswoman of the year 2014”.
• Swiss Cycling Awards , Swiss cyclist of the year 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018
• St. Gallen Sportswoman of the Year 2014
• In October 2014, Jolanda Neff was awarded the “Davos Crystal” for her sporting achievements at the Davos International Sports Night .

Web links

Commons : Jolanda Neff  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website by Jolanda Neff
• Jolanda Neff in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jolanda Neff: "For a reigning world champion you have high goals" ( Memento from May 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (May 15, 2013)
2. ↑ The mountain biker Jolanda Neff - The youngest is the best (August 12, 2014)
3. ↑ Neff wins superior EM gold - silver for Giger Article at srf.ch from May 8, 2016
4. ↑ Neff becomes world champion - and doesn't notice! Article on blick.ch from June 26, 2016
5. ↑ First world title for Jolanda Neff (September 9, 2017)
6. ↑ Shocks and surprises as Cross-Country Short Track debuts in Albstadt (May 19, 2018)
7. ↑ Jolanda Neff takes third overall World Cup! August 26, 2018, accessed January 6, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Jolanda Neff from Eastern Switzerland is European Mountain Bike Champion (August 7, 2018)
9. ^ Jolanda Neff second behind Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
10. ↑ Ruptured spleen, lung collapse - mountain bike star Jolanda Neff seriously injured in training fall (December 26, 2019)
11. ↑ Swiss Bike Cup Rivera: New season, old picture - Schurter defeats Absalon (April 3, 2016)
12. ↑ It is our World Cup trump card (August 26, 2015)
13. ↑ Jolanda Neff wins the overall World Cup. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23 August 2015, accessed on 23 August 2015 . 
14. ↑ Jolanda Neff secures gold again (September 5, 2014)
15. ↑ Yolanda Neff becomes the youngest overall World Cup winner
16. ↑ Neff Secures XC World Cup Title! (August 11, 2014)
17. ↑ Jolanda Neff misses defending his title (June 22, 2013)
18. ↑ JOLANDA NEFF STARTS 2019 WITH A BANG IN BAAL AT GP SVEN NYS (January 1, 2019)
19. ↑ Off-road notes: Jolanda Neff is still driving a World Championship (September 17, 2013)
20. ↑ UCI Road World Championships 2013 - Road Race Women Elite (PDF; 695 kB) ( Memento from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
21. ↑ Neff and Zellweger win athlete election (January 21, 2015)
22. ↑ Cancellara, Neff, Indergand and the Bahnvierer honored as Swiss cyclist of the year 2014. ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
23. ↑ Küng, Neff and Schir honored ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article on swiss-cycling.ch from November 10, 2015 
24. ^ Winner of the Swiss Cycling Awards; Neff and Schurter remove the title from the article at blick.ch from November 16, 2016
25. ↑ St. Gallen Professional Sportswoman of the Year (April 21, 2015)