Anna van der Breggen

Anna van der Breggen
	Anna van der Breggen after winning the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Anna van der Breggen
Born	18 April 1990 (age 34); Zwolle, Netherlands
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Team information
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Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
2009	Team Flexpoint
2012–2013	Sengers Ladies
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Major wins
	UCI Women's World Cup La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (2015) UCI Women's World Tour La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (2016) Stage races & Grand Tours Giro d'Italia Femminile (2015) Tour de Bretagne (2012) Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs (2014, 2015) Ladies Tour of Norway (2014) One day races Olympic Games Road Race (2016) European Road Race Trial (2016) European Time Trial championships (2012) Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2015) La Course by Le Tour de France (2015) National Time Trial Champion (2015)
Medal record
Road bicycle racing
Representing the Netherlands
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Games
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World Championships

Anna van der Breggen (born 18 April 1990) is a Dutch racing cyclist.^[1] While participating in the Team Time Trial at the 2014 Road World Championships in Ponferrada, Spain, van der Breggen broke her pelvis in a crash sustained by her Rabo Liv team.^[2] However, she recovered to win her first race of 2015, the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. In 2015, she won a bronze medal in the Road Race at the inaugural European Games, and was awarded won the Gerrit Schulte Trophy for the best Dutch of cyclist of the year.^[3] She won gold in the women's road race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.^[4]

Career

Sengers Ladies Cycling Team

2012

She turned professional in 2012 with the Sengers Ladies Cycling Team. In July, she won three of the four stages of women's Tour de Bretagne. She eventually won the overall classification, with a lead of almost three minutes. Van der Breggen also took victory in the time trial at the Tour Féminin en Limousin as well as the gold medal at the European cycling championships. As a result, she was selected for the 2012 UCI Road World Championships, whilst playing a domestique role for team leader, Marianne Vos, managed to finish fifth.

2013

Van der Breggen had a low key 2013 season, with the highlight of the season being a fourth place finish at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio. She was, however, selected to compete in the 2013 UCI Road World Championships where she finished fourth. In preparation for the 2014 season, she announced she would be joining the Dutch You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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Rabo–Liv

2014

Van der Breggens first season with the Dutch Rabo outfit proved to be highly fruitful, as well as outlining her stage racing potential. Van der Breggen scored multiple stage victories throughout the season, with notable wins coming from the overall classification at the Ladies Tour of Norway and Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs, as well as a runners up spot at the Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour and a third place finish at the most prestigious race of all in the womens calendar, the Giro d'Italia Femminile.

2015

Van der Breggen has a career best campaign throughout the 2015 season. In first spring classic of the season - Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - van der Breggen managed to escape the leading group of riders as they headed onto the Molenberg along with Ellen van Dijk. The duo remained together for the last thirty kilometers with van der Breggen taking the sprint victory. The following week, she participated in Le Samyn des Dames, getting into the breakaway on the final lap with Emma Johansson and Chloe Hosking. Van der Breggen went on to record victories at La Flèche Wallonne Féminine and La Course by Le Tour de France as well as taking numerous podium positions at top one day races . Van der Breggen highlighted her stage race potential once again, by taking the overall classification at the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs carrying the jersey from the prologue to the end of the race.^[5] Van der Breggens greatest victory came by securing the maglia rosa at the Giro d'Italia Femminile the most important race in the womens calendar and the only female Grand Tour.

2016

The 2016 season began under similar conditions as the previous one, Van der Breggen successfully defended her title at La Flèche Wallonne Féminine taking a second successive victory. Van der Breggen was part of a breakaway of seven riders in the final 10 km.

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On 7 August van der Breggen won gold in the women's road race in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. This was after her fellow teammate, Annemiek van Vleuten, who had been in the lead earlier, crashed on the way down from Vista Chinesa and had to be hospitalised.^[4] Following her Olympic victory she was made a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.^[7]

Major results

2012

1st Overall Tour de Bretagne

1st Stages 1, 2 and 4

1st European Time Trial Championships

2013: 2nd Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin; 3rd GP de Plouay

2014

1st

Overall Ladies Tour of Norway

1st Stage 1

1st Points classification

1st

Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs

1st Stage 1

2nd Ronde van Drenthe World Cup

2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT

2nd Overall Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour

1st Mountains classification

1st TTT Stage 2

1st Stage 4

3rd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira

1st Mountains classification

3rd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile

2015

1st

Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile

1st Stage 8

1st

Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs

1st Prologue (ITT)^[5]

1st

National Time Trial championships

1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine

1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

1st La Course by Le Tour de France

1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT

1st

Combativity classification Energiewacht Tour

1st Prologue^[8] & Stage 4^[9]

2nd

UCI Road World Championships Road Race

2nd Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup

2nd Le Samyn des Dames

3rd

UCI Road World Championships Team Time Trial

3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda

3rd Tour of Flanders for Women

3rd Overall Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour

1st Mountains classification

1st Stage 4^[10]

2016: 1st Road Race, Olympic Games; 1st European Road Race Championships; 1st Omloop van de IJsseldelta; 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine; 3rd Time Trial, Olympic Games; 3rd Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs; 3rd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile; 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT

References

^ "Anna van der Breggen". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
^ "Disaster befalls Marianne Vos's Rabo-Liv as Specialized-Lululemon seal hat-trick of world time trial titles". Telegraph.co.uk. 21 September 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
^ Clarke, Stuart (1 December 2015). "Tom Dumoulin named Dutch Cyclist of the Year". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. UK. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b Wynn, Nigel (7 August 2016). "Anna van der Breggen wins Rio 2016 Olympics women's road race; Lizzie Armitstead fifth". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Van Der Breggen wins prologue at Elsy Jacobs". cyclingnews.com. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
^ "Boels-Dolmans announce Anna van der Breggen signing - Cyclingnews.com". Retrieved 17 September 2016.
^ "Van der Breggen and Ligtlee given royal honours - News shorts". cyclingnews.com. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
^ Connolly, Sarah (10 April 2015). "Van der Breggen tops Energiewacht Tour prologue". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
^ Connolly, Sarah (12 April 2015). "Energiewacht Tour: Brennauer wins overall title". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
^ "Lotto Belgium Tour 2015: Uitslag - Results: Rit 4 11/09/2015 Sint Maria Lierde Geraardsbergen" (PDF). Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour. 11 September 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.

External links

Anna van der Breggen at Cycling Archives
Anna van der Breggen at ProCyclingStats

[ProCyclingStats-1] "Anna van der Breggen". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 29 September 2013.

[2] "Disaster befalls Marianne Vos's Rabo-Liv as Specialized-Lululemon seal hat-trick of world time trial titles". Telegraph.co.uk. 21 September 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2015.

[3] Clarke, Stuart (1 December 2015). "Tom Dumoulin named Dutch Cyclist of the Year". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. UK. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

[cw2016-4] Wynn, Nigel (7 August 2016). "Anna van der Breggen wins Rio 2016 Olympics women's road race; Lizzie Armitstead fifth". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 8 August 2016.

[auto-5] "Van Der Breggen wins prologue at Elsy Jacobs". cyclingnews.com. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.

[6] "Boels-Dolmans announce Anna van der Breggen signing - Cyclingnews.com". Retrieved 17 September 2016.

[7] "Van der Breggen and Ligtlee given royal honours - News shorts". cyclingnews.com. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.

[8] Connolly, Sarah (10 April 2015). "Van der Breggen tops Energiewacht Tour prologue". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 April 2015.

[9] Connolly, Sarah (12 April 2015). "Energiewacht Tour: Brennauer wins overall title". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.

[10] "Lotto Belgium Tour 2015: Uitslag - Results: Rit 4 11/09/2015 Sint Maria Lierde Geraardsbergen" (PDF). Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour. 11 September 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.

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v t e Dutch National Time Trial Championships (women)
1980–1999	Ingrid Haringa (1991) Lenie Dijkstra (1992) Petra Grimbergen (1993) Maria Jongeling (1994) Jet Jongeling (1995) Willeke van der Weide (1996) Leontien van Moorsel (1997–1999)
2000–2019	Leontien van Moorsel (2000–2002) Jolanda van Dongen (2003) Mirjam Melchers (2004) Suzanne de Goede (2005) Loes Gunnewijk (2006) Ellen van Dijk (2007) Mirjam Melchers (2008) Regina Bruins (2009) Marianne Vos (2010–2011) Ellen van Dijk (2012–2013) Annemiek van Vleuten (2014) Anna van der Breggen (2015) Annemiek van Vleuten (2016–2017) Ellen van Dijk (2018) Annemiek van Vleuten (2019)
2020–2039	Anna van der Breggen (2021) Ellen van Dijk (2022) Riejanne Markus (2023–2024)

Career

Sengers Ladies Cycling Team

2012

2013

Rabo–Liv

2014

2015

2016

Major results

See also

References

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