Nicky Degrendele

Nicky Degrendele

Nicky Degrendele (2018)
To person
Date of birth	October 11, 1996
nation	Belgium
discipline	Train (short term)
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2018 - Keirin 2017 - Keirin UEC European Rail Championships 2016 - Keirin UCI Track World Championships for Juniors 2014 - Keirin
Last updated: April 16, 2017

Nicky Degrendele (born October 11, 1996 in Knokke-Heist ) is a Belgian track cyclist who specializes in short-term disciplines.

Athletic career

Even as a junior, Nicky Degrendele made people sit up and take notice: after taking podium places at junior world championships and European championships in 2013 and becoming six-time Belgian junior champion, in 2014 she won the title of junior world champion and European champion in Keirin . In the same discipline, she also became Belgian elite champion at the age of 18, in 2015 in the keirin and sprint .

In 2016 Nicky Degrendele won the silver medal in the Keirin at the European Championships despite severe back problems, in the sprint she finished fourth. At the UCI Track World Championships in 2017 , she was third in the Keirin. The following year she became world champion in this discipline in Apeldoorn .

successes

2012

• Belgian Youth Champion - Sprint

2013

• Junior World Championship - Sprint
• Junior European Championship - Keirin, Sprint
• Junior European Championship - team sprint (with Catherine Wernimont )
• Belgian junior champion - sprint, 500 meter time trial, keirin, team sprint (with Catherine Wernimont ), scratch, single pursuit

2014

• Junior World Champion - Keirin
• Junior World Championship - Sprint
• Junior European Champion - Keirin
• Junior European Championship - Sprint
• Belgian champion - Keirin
• Belgian Junior Champion - Sprint, 500m Time Trial, Scratch, Team Sprint (with Catherine Wernimont )

2015

• Belgian Champion - Keirin, Sprint

2016

• European Championship - Keirin

2017

• World Championship - Keirin
• Belgian champion - Keirin

2018

• World Champion - Keirin
• European Championship - Keirin
• U23 European Champion - Keirin
• U23 European Championship - Sprint

Teams

• 2015 Topsport Vlaanderen-Pro-Duo
• 2016 Topsport Vlaandere-Etix

Web links

• Nicky Degrendele in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Nicky Degrendele in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Topsport Vlaanderen - Etixx - Guill D'or. In: cyclingteam-damesvlaanderen.be. Retrieved October 24, 2016 . 
• Nicky Degrendele: Nicky Degrendele's blog. Retrieved October 24, 2016 (Dutch). 
• Nicky Degrendele: "Ik ben van nature heel onpatient". In: vrouwenpeloton.be. July 11, 2016, accessed October 24, 2016 (Dutch). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zilver voor Nicky Degrendele op EK piste. In: nieuwsblad.be. October 21, 2016, accessed October 26, 2016 (Dutch).