Leontien van Moorsel
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| Full name | Leontien van Moorsel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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22 March 1970 Boekel, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road & track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970 in Boekel) is a Dutch retired racing cyclist.
Career
Leontien van Moorsel in 2004
Van Moorsel started her career in the late 1980s. She won major races both on the track, and on the road. In the first half of the 1990s, she won the Tour Féminin twice, after fierce competition with Jeannie Longo.
Van Moorsel dropped out of cycling in 1994 with anorexia nervosa[1] but recovered to compete at the World Championships in 1998, winning the time trial and coming second in the road race.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, van Moorsel won gold medals on the road (road race and time trial), and on the track (3 km pursuit). At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she fell in the penultimate lap of the road race,[2] but successfully defended her time trial title.
Her four gold medals tie her (with four others) for the most ever by a Dutch athlete at the Olympics.[3]
She has held the world hour record for women of 46.065 km, set in 2003 in Mexico City.[4]
Van Moorsel retired from professional cycling after the 2004 Olympics.
Major results
- 1990
- World champion 3km pursuit
- World champion 50km team time trial
- 1991
- World champion road race
- 1992
- Tour Feminin
- 1993
- World champion road race
- Tour Feminin
- 1998
- World champion time trial
- 1999
- World champion time trial
- 2000
Olympic champion road race- Olympic champion time trial
- Olympic champion 3km pursuit
Olympic silver medallist points race- 2001
- World champion 3km pursuit
- 2002
- World champion 3km pursuit
- 2003
- World champion 3km pursuit
- World hour record: 46.065 km
- 2004
- Ronde van Gelderland
- Olympic champion time trial
Olympic bronze medallist 3km pursuit
Personal life
Van Moorsel married former track cyclist Michael Zijlaard in October 1995.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "Leontiens eigen verhaal" (in Dutch). Leontienfoundation.nl. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
- ↑ "Cycling: Ulmer's rival crashes out - Sport - NZ Herald News". Nzherald.co.nz. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/medal_finder.cgi?request=1&sum=1&group_by=athlete_id&medal_cmp=ge&medal_num=1&medal=&season_id=&edition_min=&edition_max=&exclude_1906=Y&country_id=NED&sport_id=&event_class=&is_team_member=&gender=&age_min=0&age_max=99&order_by=Total
- ↑ Clemitson, Suze (19 September 2014). "Why Jens Voigt and a new group of cyclists want to break the Hour record". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
- ↑ Knapp, Gerard (2001). "Cyclingnews talks with Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
External links
- (Dutch) Official site
- Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel profile at Cycling Archives
Awards
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| Preceded by Elly van Hulst |
Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 1990 |
Succeeded by Ingrid Haringa |
| Preceded by Ellen van Langen |
Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 1993 |
Succeeded by Anky van Grunsven |
| Preceded by Marianne Timmer |
Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 1999, 2000 |
Succeeded by Inge de Bruijn |
| Preceded by Verona van de Leur |
Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 2003, 2004 |
Succeeded by Edith van Dijk |
| Preceded by Francis Hoenselaar |
Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year 1998–2000 |
Succeeded by Sissy van Alebeek |
| Preceded by Sissy van Alebeek |
Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year 2002–2004 |
Succeeded by Elisabeth Willebroordse |
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| Preceded by Jeannie Longo |
UCI women's hour record (46.065 km) 1 October 2003 – 12 September 2015 |
Succeeded by Molly Shaffer Van Houweling |
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