Trine Schmidt

Trine Schmidt

Trine Schmidt as European champion in points race (2017)
To person
Date of birth	3rd June 1988
nation	Denmark
discipline	Track bike / street
Driver type	sprinter
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2008 - points race UEC European Rail Championships 2017 - points race, Scratch
Last updated: June 26, 2020

Trine Schmidt (born June 3, 1988 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish cyclist who is successful on track and road.

Athletic career

Trine Schmidt was one of Denmark's strongest cyclists in the first decade of the 2000s. In 2003 she took two second and two third places in the Danish track championships, in the elite and junior classes. In 2004 she won two championship titles, in the scratch on the track and in the individual junior time trial on the road. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , she crashed in the points race and finished 18th.

By 2009 Trine Schmidt had won numerous other national titles on the road and rail. Her greatest international success was the runner-up world title in the points race in Manchester in 2008 under the supervision of the German trainer Heiko Salzwedel . In addition, she achieved numerous stage wins and top places in road races. In 2009 she finished second behind Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli at the Chrono des Nations .

In 2011 Schmidt ended her cycling career, but returned in 2016 and finished second in the individual time trial at the Danish road championships. The following year she became national champion in the single pursuit and in the scratch on the track. In 2017 she won two European Championship titles on the track in points race and scratch. At the 2019/20 Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong , she won the two-man team with Julie Leth .

successes

train

2004

• Danish champion - Scratch

2005

• Junior European Championship - Single Pursuit

2007

• Danish champion - Scratch, single chase

2008

• World Championship - points race

2009

• Danish Champion - Single Pursuit

2017

• European champion - points race, scratch
• Danish Champion - Scratch, One Pursuit

2019

• World Cup in Hong Kong - two-man team driving (with Julie Leth )

Street

2004

• Danish Junior Champion - Individual Time Trial

2006

• Junior European Championships - Individual Time Trial
• Danish Champion - Team Time Trial (with Mie Bekker Lacota and Anette Berg )

2007

• Danish champion - individual time trial
• a stage Gracia Orlová

Teams

• 2007 Flexpoint team
• 2008 Menikini-Selle Italia-Master Colors (until June 24th)
• 2009 Team Flexpoint
• 2010 MTN Energade Ladies Teams (until May 31)
• 2010 Hitec Products-UCK (from June 1st)
• 2011 Garmin-Cervélo
• 2016 BMS Birn
• 2017 Lotto Soudal Ladies
• 2018 Team Virtu Cycling Women
• 2019 Team Virtu Cycling Women

Web links

Commons : Trine Schmidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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