Leontien van Moorsel

Leontien van Moorsel
	Leontien van Moorsel in 1991
Personal information
Full name	Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel
Born	22 March 1970 (age 54); Boekel, Netherlands
Team information
Discipline	Road & track
Role	Rider
Amateur teams
1992	KNWU AMEV Batavus A-selectie Nederland
1997	VKS
1999	Opstalan
Professional team
2000–2004	Hartol–Farm Frites
Major wins
	Stage races Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale (1992, 1993) Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin (1991) Emakumeen Bira (2000) Trophée d'Or Féminin (2000) One day races & classics Olympic Road Champion (2000) Olympic Time Trial Champion (2000, 2004) World Road Champion (1991, 1993) World Time Trial Champion (1998, 1999) National Road Champion (1998–2000, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999) National Time Trial Champion (1997, 1998–2002)
Medal record
Representing the Netherlands
Women's Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
World Championships
Women's Track cycling
Olympic Games
World Championships

Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970) is a Dutch retired racing cyclist. She was a dominant cyclist in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games and holding the hour record for women from 2003 until 2015.^[1]

Career

Van Moorsel started her career in 1977.^{[dubious – discuss]} 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^[2] 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 and was stretchered off and taken to the hospital by ambulance,^[3] but nevertheless successfully defended her time trial title two days later.

She set a new world hour record for women of 46.065 km, in 2003 in Mexico City,^[4] which was not improved upon for almost 12 years, when UCI rule changes prompted a new succession of attempts.

Van Moorsel retired from professional cycling after the 2004 Olympics.

In 2017 Van Moorsel became director of the Women's Amstel Gold Race.^[5]

In September 2017, Van Moorsel was accused by sports physician Peter Janssen of using EPO in 2000 and 2001.^[6]

Major results

1985: 1st National Novice Road Race Championships

1987: 1st National Novice Road Race Championships

1988: 1st National Road Race Championships

1989: 1st National Road Race Championships; 1st Stage 1 Tour of Norway

1990

1st

UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)

1st UCI Road World Championships Team Time Trial

1st

National Road Race Championships

2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin

National Track Championship

3rd Points race

3rd Individual sprint

3rd Chrono des Nations

1991: 1st UCI Road World Championships Road Race; 1st National Track Championships (Team pursuit); 1st Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin; 3rd National Road Race Championships

1992

1st

National Road Race Championships

National Track Championship

1st

Individual pursuit

2nd Points race

1st

Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale

1993: 1st UCI Road World Championships Road Race; 1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale; 1st National Road Race Championships; 2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin

1997

1st

National Time Trial Championships

National Track Championships

1st

Individual pursuit

2nd Points race

1st Overall Boekel

1st Stages 1 & 3

1998

1st

UCI Road World Championships Time Trial

National Road Championships

1st

Road Race

1st

Time Trial

National Track Championships

1st

Individual pursuit

1st

Points race

1st

Overall Ster van Zeeland

1st Stages 1 & 3

1st Parel van de Veluwe

1st Omloop der Kempen

2nd Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour

1st Stage 1

2nd UCI Road World Championships Road Race

2nd UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)

1999

1st

UCI Road World Championships Time Trial

National Road Championships

1st

Road Race

1st

Time Trial

National Track Championships

1st

Individual pursuit

1st

Points race

1st

Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour

1st Stages 2 & 7

1st

Overall Ster van Zeeland

1st Stages 2 & 3

1st Overall Greenery International

1st Stages 1, 2 & 3

1st Overall Boekel

1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 2

1st Damesronde van Drenthe

1st Omloop van Kanaleneiland

1st Omloop der Kempen

2nd Rotterdam Tour

2000

Olympic Games

1st

Road Race

1st

Time Trial

1st

Individual pursuit

2nd

Points race

National Road Championships

1st

Time Trial

2nd Road Race

National Track Championships

1st

Individual pursuit

1st

Points race

1st

Overall Emakumeen Bira

1st

Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin

1st

Overall Ster van Zeeland

1st Stages 1 & 2

1st Overall Westfriese Dorpenomloop

1st Prologue & Stage 1

1st Overall Boekel

1st Stages 1, 2a & 2b

1st Ronde van het Ronostrand

1st Omloop der Kempen

1st Stages 1, 2 & 4 Giro d'Italia Femminile

2001

1st

UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)

1st

National Time Trial Championships

National Track Championships

1st

Individual pursuit

1st

Points race

1st Overall Ster van Zeeland

1st Stages 2 & 3

1st Overall Boekel

1st Stages 2 & 3

1st Acht van Chaam

1st Egmond-Pier-Egmond

1st Souvenir Magali Pache

1st Profronde van Stiphout

1st Profronde van Surhuisterveen

1st Prologue Giro d'Italia Femminile

1st Stage 1 Boels Rental Ladies Tour

3rd Amstel Gold Race

2002

1st

UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)

National Road Championships

1st

Time Trial

2nd Road Race

National Track Championships

1st

Individual pursuit

1st

Points race

1st Overall RaboSter Zeeuwsche Eilanden

1st Stages 1, 2 & 3a

1st Overall Westfriese Dorpenomloop

1st Stages 1 & 2

1st Amstel Gold Race

1st Damesronde van Drenthe

1st Acht van Chaam

1st Egmond-Pier-Egmond

1st Profronde van Stiphout,

2003

1st

UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)

1st Overall Boekel

1st Stage 3

1st Omloop van Borsele

2nd National Time Trial Championships

World Hour record

2004

Olympic Games

1st

Time Trial

3rd

Individual pursuit

1st

National Road Race Championships

1st Ronde van Gelderland

1st Omloop der Kempen

1st Profronde van Stiphout

1st Acht van Chaam

Personal life

Van Moorsel married former track cyclist Michael Zijlaard in October 1995.^[7] They have a daughter.

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leontien van Moorsel Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
^ "Leontiens eigen verhaal" (in Dutch). Leontienfoundation.nl. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
^ "Cycling: Ulmer's rival crashes out - Sport - NZ Herald News". Nzherald.co.nz. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
^ 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.
^ "It's official: there will be a women's Amstel Gold Race in 2017 | CyclingTips". CyclingTips. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
^ Thomas Blom & Misha Wessel, "Oud-wielerarts: Leontien van Moorsel gebruikte epo" (in Dutch), de Volkskrant, 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
^ Knapp, Gerard (2001). "Cyclingnews talks with Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 25 August 2012.

External links

Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 19 December 2005) (in Dutch)
Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel at Cycling Archives (archived)
Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel at Olympedia
Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel at Olympics.com
Leontien van Moorsel at Olympic.org (archived)
Leontien van Moorsel at NOC*NSF (in Dutch) (English translation)
Leontien van Moorsel at IMDb

Awards
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
Records
Preceded by Jeannie Longo	UCI women's hour record (46.065 km) 1 October 2003 – 12 September 2015	Succeeded by Molly Shaffer Van Houweling

[SportsRef-1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leontien van Moorsel Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2016.

[2] "Leontiens eigen verhaal" (in Dutch). Leontienfoundation.nl. Retrieved 23 August 2012.

[3] "Cycling: Ulmer's rival crashes out - Sport - NZ Herald News". Nzherald.co.nz. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2012.

[Grdn-4] 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.

[5] "It's official: there will be a women's Amstel Gold Race in 2017 | CyclingTips". CyclingTips. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

[6] Thomas Blom & Misha Wessel, "Oud-wielerarts: Leontien van Moorsel gebruikte epo" (in Dutch), de Volkskrant, 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2017.

[cninterview-7] Knapp, Gerard (2001). "Cyclingnews talks with Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 25 August 2012.

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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)

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF WorldCat
National	United States Netherlands

Career

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See also

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