Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel

Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel

Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel (1991)
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Full name	Leontine Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel
Date of birth	March 22, 1970
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Road / rail (endurance)
End of career	2005
Most important successes
Olympic Summer Games 2004 - individual time trial 2004 - one's pursuit 2000 - individual time trial, road race, individual pursuit 2000 - points race
Last updated: May 4, 2020

Leontine Martha Henrica Petronella "Leontien" Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born March 22, 1970 in Boekel ; born Leontien van Moorsel ) is a former Dutch cyclist and four-time Olympic champion. She is nicknamed Tinus or Ties . Alongside Jeannie Longo, she was the outstanding rider personality in women's cycling in the 1990s and 2000s.

biography

Athletic career

Leontin van Moorsel began her career in the late 1980s. Already in 1990 she became world champion in the 3000 m single pursuit in Maebashi, Japan . In 1991 and 1993 she became world champion in road racing . Through further international successes, u. a. at the Tour de France for women, she rose to be one of the best cyclists in the world. After a temporary resignation in the mid-1990s (more precisely at the end of 1993), her athletic development seemed to have come to an end, especially since she also suffered from anorexia and depression, which she later attributed to her hard training. Motivated by her husband, the cyclist Michael Zijlaard , she later decided to start cycling again in order to overcome her illness and even returned to competitive sport after a long break.

In 2000 she was again the dominant cyclist at the Olympic Games in Sydney . There she won the gold medal in the 3000 m pursuit race, the road race and the individual time trial . She also won a silver medal in the points race .

Between 2001 and 2003 she was world champion in the 3,000 m single pursuit three times in a row . In 2003 she tackled the hour record of her French competitor Jeannie Longo and improved her record by 916 meters to 46.065 kilometers.

The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens started out unpromising: In the street race on August 15, 2004, she crashed and was eliminated. Just three days later, however, she clearly prevailed over her competition in the individual time trial and in the end won her fourth gold medal with a lead of over 24 seconds. She finished third in the 3,000 m individual pursuit. In January 2005 she drove her last race in the six days of Rotterdam and ended her career as a cyclist.

Leontien van Moorsel has been voted Sportswoman of the Year six times in the Netherlands : 1990, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2004. After the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, she retired from active cycling. In the same year, she was honored with a bronze monument by sculptor Paul Roijmans in her hometown .

doping

In September 2017, the physician Peter Janssen claimed in an interview with Volkskrant that he had provided Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel with EPO before the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . The Dutch Olympic Sports Confederation ( NOC * NSF ) stated that a doping investigation commission in 2013 supported the doctor's statements. Zijlaard-van Moorsel denied these allegations.

After the sport

The former UCI Women's Team AA Drink-leontien.nl was named after Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel, led by her husband Michael Zijlaard . In 2008 she founded the Stichting Leontien , which aims to combat eating disorders . In July 2015 opened Leontien van Moorsel together with Dutch Queen Maxima in Zevenhuizen the Leontienhuis for the treatment of people with eating disorders.

In 2016, Zijlaard-van Moorsel became the sporting director of the event for women in the Amstel Gold Race , which she herself won in 2011.

family

Her father-in-law is the popular derny pacemaker Joop Zijlaard . Her niece Nicky Zijlaard was active as a cyclist until 2014; At the UCI Road World Championships 2012 in Valkenburg , the Netherlands , she finished ninth in the junior women’s individual time trial. Her nephew Maikel is also a cyclist; In 2019 he became Dutch champion in the single pursuit on the track.

Miscellaneous

From August 2018 Leontin van Moorsel appeared in a supporting role in Soof de Musical .

literature

• Gert Jan de Vries: Leontien. De biography of Leontien van Moorsel . Just Publishers, 2020, ISBN 978-90-8975-035-8 .

Successes (selection)

Street 1984 Dutch youth champion - road race 1985 Dutch youth champion - road race 1989 Dutch champion - road race 1990 World Champion - Team Time Trial (with Monique Knol , Astrid Schop and Cora Westland ) Dutch champion - road race 1991 World Champion - Road Race 1992 Grande Boucle Féminine Dutch champion - road race 1993 World Champion - Road Race Grande Boucle Féminine Dutch champion - road race 1997 Dutch champion - road race 1998 World Champion - Individual Time Trial Dutch champion - road race, individual time trial 1999 World Champion - Individual Time Trial Overall ranking and two Holland Ladies Tour Dutch champion - road race, individual time trial 2000 Olympic champion - individual time trial, road race Emakumeen Bira three stages of the Giro d'Italia Femminile Trophée d'Or Féminin Dutch champion - individual time trial 2001 Eight van Chaam Dutch champion - individual time trial 2002 Eight van Chaam Amstel Gold Race Dutch champion - individual time trial 2004 Olympic Champion - Individual Time Trial Eight van Chaam Dutch champion - road race

train 1990 World Champion - Single Pursuit 1991 Dutch Champion - Single Pursuit 1992 Dutch Champion - Single Pursuit 1997 Dutch Champion - Single Pursuit 1998 Dutch champion - single pursuit, points race 1999 Dutch champion - single pursuit, points race 2000 Olympic Champion - Single Pursuit Olympic Games - points race Dutch champion - single pursuit, points race 2001 World Champion - Single Pursuit Dutch champion - single pursuit, points race 2002 World Champion - Single Pursuit Dutch champion - single pursuit, points race 2003 Dutch champion - single pursuit, points race 2002 World Champion - Single Pursuit 2004 Olympic Games - One's Pursuit

Web links

Commons : Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography. (No longer available online.) In: leontienvanmoorsel.nl. Archived from the original on December 3, 2017 ; Retrieved December 2, 2017 (Dutch). 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.  
2. ^ Ralf Schröder: Cycling. History, culture, practice . Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89533-364-6 , p. 178-179 .
3. ↑ Zijlaard-van Moorsel breaks the hour record. In: radsport-news.com. December 7, 2000, accessed December 2, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Hedwig Kröner: Van Moorsel says goodbye. In: cyclingnews.com. January 10, 2005, accessed December 2, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Boekel - Leontien van Moorsel. In: standbeelden.vanderkrogt.net. Retrieved May 4, 2020 . 
6. ^ Doctor: I gave EPO to Olympic champion. In: Deutschlandfunk. March 7, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2017 . 
7. ^ Stichting Leontienhuis. In: leontienhuis.nl. December 15, 2008, accessed December 2, 2017 (Dutch). 
8. ↑ Queen Maxima opent Leontienhuis. In: hartvannederland.nl. July 9, 2015, accessed December 2, 2017 (Dutch). 
9. ↑ Posted on: 03/10/2016: Leontien van Moorsel is named koersdirecteur van de vrouweneditie Amstel Gold Race. In: l1.nl. Retrieved January 19, 2019 (Dutch). 
10. ↑ Show editorial: Leontien Zijlaard gaat niet écht zoenen in Soof de musical. In: ad.nl. August 26, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 (Dutch).