Leontien van Moorsel

Leontien van Moorsel

Leontien van Moorsel
Personal information
Full name	Leontien van Moorsel
Born	March 22, 1970 (1970-03-22) Boekel, the Netherlands
Team information
Discipline	Road & track
Role	Rider
Medal record Competitor for the Netherlands Road bicycle racing Olympic Games Gold 2000 Sydney Road race Gold 2000 Sydney Time trial Gold 2004 Athens Time trial World Championships Gold 1991 Stuttgart Road race Gold 1993 Oslo Road race Gold 1998 Valkenburg Time trial Gold 1999 Verona Time trial Silver 1998 Valkenburg Road race Track cycling Olympic Games Gold 2000 Sydney Individual pursuit Silver 2000 Sydney Points race Bronze 2004 Athens Individual pursuit World Championships Gold 1990 Maebashi City Individual pursuit Gold 2001 Antwerp Individual pursuit Gold 2002 Copenhagen Individual pursuit Gold 2003 Stuttgart Individual pursuit Silver 1998 Bordeaux Individual pursuit
Infobox last updated on September 7, 2008

Leontine Martha Henrica Petronella van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970 in Boekel, Netherlands) is a former Dutch racing cyclist.

Van Moorsel started her career in the late 1980s and was soon one of the best cyclists in the world. 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 but recovered to compete at the world championships in 1998, winning the time trial and coming second in the road race.^{[citation needed]}

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,^{[citation needed]} but successfully defended her time trial title. With four gold, one silver, and a bronze Olympic medal, van Moorsel is one of the most successful Dutch athletes ever.^{[citation needed]}

She retired from professional cycling after the 2004 Olympics.

Major results

1990

World champion 5km 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: 46,06511 km

2004

Olympic champion time trial

Olympic bronze medallist 3km pursuit

See also

• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games

External links

• (Dutch) Official site
• Leontien van Moorsel profile at Cycling Archives

Awards

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