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Jenny Rissveds
Swedish cross-country mountainbike rider (born 1994)
Jenny Rissveds (born 6 June 1994) is a Swedish cross-country mountainbike rider.[1] She won the gold medal in the under-23 mountainbike race at the World Championships in 2016.[2]
Born in Falun, Rissveds won the gold medal in women's cross country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[3] In March 2017, Rissveds rode the eight-day Absa Cape Epic stage race in South Africa for the first time. Together with manager Thomas Frischknecht they won the Mixed category comfortably after covering the 641 km route.
In July 2017, she was awarded the Victoria Scholarship.[4]
On 11 August 2019, she won her first world cup victory post-her 2016 Summer Olympics gold medal, when winning a World Cup competition in Lenzerheide in Switzerland.[5]
