Michelle Vorster

Michelle Vorster

To person
Date of birth	12th September 1978 (age 41)
nation	Namibia
discipline	Road / mountain bike
Most important successes
African Championships 2015 mountain bike 2015 team time trial - road 2016 mountain bike 2017 mountain bike
Last updated: July 23, 2020

Michelle Vorster (born September 12, 1978 in Windhoek , South West Africa ) is a Namibian cyclist who is active on the road and mountain bike . With five national championship titles in mountain biking, she is the most successful Namibian athlete in history in this sport.

Athletic career

In 2015 and 2016 Michelle Vorster was third in the Africa Championship in Mountain Bike (Cross Country) (XC). In 2015 she won silver in the team time trial at the African Championships on the road together with Irene Stey and Vera Adrian . She took part in the 2016 Summer Olympics and came in 26th on the mountain bike.

In 2017 Vorster became African champion in mountain bike XC. The following year, she was eighth in the same discipline at the 2018 Commonwealth Games . From 2015 to 2020 she was Namibian mountain bike champion.

successes

Mountain bike

2015

• African Championship
• Namibian champion

2016

• African Championship
• Namibian champion

2017

• African champion
• Namibian champion

2018

• Namibian champion

2019

• Namibian champion

2020

• Namibian champion

Street

2015

• African Championship - Team Time Trial (with Irene Stey and Vera Adrian )

2017

• Nedbank Cycle Classic

2020

• Nedbank Cycle Classic
• Namibian champion

Web links

• Michelle Vorster in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Michelle Vorster in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Michelle Vorster in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michelle Vorster . Archived from the original on August 29, 2016. Retrieved on August 28, 2016.
2. ↑ Women's Cross-country - Standings . Archived from the original on August 23, 2016. Retrieved on August 28, 2016.