Kirsten Wild

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Kirsten Wild Road cycling
Kirsten Wild (2019)
Kirsten Wild (2019)
To person
Full name Kirsten Carlijn Wild
Date of birth October 15, 1982
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Train / street
To the team
Current team Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling Team
function driver
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2016 silver - road racing
UCI track world championships
2019 World Champion - Omnium, two-man team driving
2018 World Champion - Scratch, Omnium, points race
2015 World Champion - Scratch
European Games
2019 gold - Scratch
UEC European Rail Championships
2019 European Champion 2016 - Omnium
2016, 2017, 2019 European Champion 2016 - Elimination races
2016 European Champion 2016 - points race
2013 European champion - points race
Last updated: July 4th, 2020
Wild was the most successful female athlete at the 2018 World Track Championships

Kirsten Carlijn Wild (born October 15, 1982 in Almelo ) is a Dutch cyclist . She is one of the most successful cyclists in the Netherlands in the first two decades of the 21st century.

Athletic career

Kirsten Wild has been a professional cyclist since 2004 and achieved numerous successes on the road . In 2007 she won the overall ranking of the Tour de Pologne Feminine , and in 2009, 2010, 2013 and 2014 she won the Tour of Qatar . At the UCI Road World Championships in 2012 , she and her team won bronze in the team time trial .

Wild was also successful on the track : at the 2011 UCI Track World Championships in Apeldoorn , the Netherlands , she won bronze in the Omnium .

In 2012 Kirsten Wild started at the Olympic Games in London in the Omnium and in the team pursuit (with Vera Koedooder , Ellen van Dijk and Amy Pieters ) and finished sixth in both disciplines. In 2013 she won the European Rail Championships in points . In 2015, Kirsten Wild became world champion in scratch and third in the Omnium. In 2016 she became vice world champion in scratch.

In the same year Kirsten Wild was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In the Omnium track cycling competition , she finished sixth there. At the 2017 UCI Track World Championships in Hong Kong , she won two medals: silver in the omnium and bronze in the points race . In 2018 she became three-time world champion in scratch, points race and omnium in Apeldoorn ; in the two-man team race, she finished second with Amy Pieters . This made her the most successful athlete at these world championships. In January 2019, she said in an interview that 2018 was the most successful year of her career; Her goal is now a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo .

In the following year, Wild continued to be successful: after three gold medals in the track cycling world cup , she became two-time world champion on the track and won two more medals. At the European Games in Minsk , she won the scratch competition.

In 2019 Kirsten Wild started at the Prudential RideLondon & Surrey Classic to repeat her win there from the previous year. There was a mass fall 100 meters from the finish. Wild was the first to cross the finish line but was later disqualified for causing the fall.

Successes (selection)

Street

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Kirsten Wild (front) at La Course by Le Tour de France 2015
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

train

Wild (r.) With Amy Pieters in the two-man team event at the 2016 European Championship
2008
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch champion - Scratch
2010
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch champion - points race
2011
2012
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch champion - Omnium
2013
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Teams

Web links

Commons : Kirsten Wild  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Vingerling en Tim Rodenburg Nederlands kampioen omnium ( Memento from April 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) January 29, 2012 (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Wild dreams of an Olympic medal. In: rad-net.de. January 2, 2019, accessed January 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ RideLondon Classique: Kirsten Wild disqualified after crash. In: bbc.com. August 3, 2019, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  4. ^ Horror crash in closing stages of RideLondon Classique. In: bbc.com. August 3, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wild, Kirsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wild, Kirsten Carlijn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Almelo