Annemiek van Vleuten (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Movistar Team .[3] [4]
Dutch cyclist (born 1982)
Annemiek van Vleuten Full name Annemiek van Vleuten Nickname
Vleuty
Peluchen
Miek
The Alien
Born (1982-10-08 ) 8 October 1982 (age 39) Vleuten , NetherlandsHeight 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Weight 59 kg (130 lb) Current team Movistar Team Discipline Road Role Rider Rider type All-rounder 2007 Therme Skin Care 2008 Vrienden van het Platteland
2009–2014 Rabo–Liv 2015 Bigla Pro Cycling Team 2016–2020 Mitchelton–Scott [1] [2] 2021– Movistar Team
Grand Tours
Tour de France
General classification (2022 )
2 individual stages (2022 )
Giro Donne
General classification (2018, 2019, 2022 )
13 individual stages (2014 , 2015 , 2017 –2020, 2022 )
Stage races
La Route de France (2010)
Belgium Tour (2014, 2016)
Holland Ladies Tour (2017 , 2018 )
Ladies Tour of Norway (2021 )
Challenge by La Vuelta (2021 )
One day races
Olympic time trial (2021 )
World Road Race Championships (2019 )
World Time Trial Championships (2017 , 2018 )
European Road Championships (2020 )
National Road Race Championships (2012)
National Time Trial Championships (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019)
Tour of Flanders (2011 , 2021 )
Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2019 , 2022 )
La Course by Le Tour de France (2017 , 2018 )
Open de Suède Vårgårda (2011 )
GP de Plouay – Bretagne (2011)
Ronde van Drenthe (2010)
GP Stad Roeselare (2012)
7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg (2012)
Omloop der Kempen (2013)
Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race (2017)
Strade Bianche Donne (2019 , 2020 )
Other
UCI Women's Road World Cup (2011 )
UCI Women's World Tour (2018 , 2021 )
Van Vleuten won the World Championships road race in 2019 , and the World Championships time trial twice in 2017 and 2018 . In the Olympic Games, she crashed out of the lead of the road race in Rio 2016 , before winning the gold medal at the time trial event, and a silver in the road race five years later at Tokyo 2020 . She won the Dutch National Road Race Championships in 2012, and won the Dutch National Time Trial Championships four times between 2014 and 2019.
Van Vleuten has won both of women's cycling Grand Tours – winning the Giro d'Italia Donne three times in 2018, 2019 and 2022 , and winning the Tour de France Femmes in 2022 . She became the first woman to complete a Giro – Tour double in the same year.
In winning the UCI Women's Road World Cup in 2011 , and the UCI Women's World Tour in 2018 and 2021 , Van Vleuten won multiple stage races and one day events. She has won cycling monuments including Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes , Strade Bianche Donne and Tour of Flanders for Women on multiple occasions. She has been awarded Dutch women's cyclist of the year three times. Van Vleuten will retire at the end of the 2023 season.
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