Laurine van Riessen
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| Birth name | Laurine van Riessen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 August 1987 Leiden, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | BEAT Cycling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2017 | Matrix Pro Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018– | BEAT Cycling Club[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Laurine van Riessen (born 10 August 1987) is a long track speed skater and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Track Team BEAT Cycling Club.[2] She competed for the Netherlands at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in the 500, 1000, and 1500 metres and won the bronze medal in the 1000 metres.[3] In 2015, she switched to track cycling and won a bronze medal in the team sprint at the 2015 UEC European Track Championships in Grenchen, Switzerland.
Van Riessen competed for the Netherlands in track cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[4] In 2017, she rode for the British team Matrix Pro Cycling.[5] On 4 September 2018 she joined BEAT Cycling Club.
Major results[edit]
- 2015
- National Track Championships
- 1st
500m time trial - 1st Individual sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 1st
- US Grand Prix of Sprinting
- 1st 500m time trial
- 2nd Individual sprint
- Independence Day Grand Prix
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 3rd 500m Time Trial
- Grand Prix of Colorado Springs
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Team Sprint (with Yesna Rijkhoff)
- Vic Williams Memorial Grand Prix
- 1st 500m time trial
- 2nd Individual sprint
- 2nd Keirin, Internationale Radsport Meeting
- 3rd European Track Championships (Team sprint)
- 2016
- Milton International Challenge
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st 500m Time Trial
- National Track Championships
- 1st Individual sprint
- 3rd Keirin
- 1st
- Apeldoorn Track Championships
- 2nd Team sprint
- 3rd Individual sprint
- 3rd Grenchen Track Cycling Challenge (Individual sprint)
- 3rd Sprint, Dudenhofen
- 3rd Sprint, Öschelbronn
- 2017
- Belgian International Track Meeting
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- Internationaal Baan Sprint Keirin Toernooi
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- Dublin International
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 3rd Keirin, Six Days of Rotterdam
- 3rd Sprint, Öschelbronn
- 2018
- 1st Keirin, Worldcup Track Cycling Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines
References[edit]
- ^ "BEAT Cycling Club". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- ^ "BEAT Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 31 January 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
- ^ CTV profile
- ^ "Laurine van Riessen - athlete profile". Archived from the original on 2016-08-06. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
- ^ "LAURINE VAN RIESSEN JOINS MATRIX PRO CYCLING – Matrix Pro Cycling".
External links[edit]
- Laurine van Riessen at the International Skating Union
- Laurine van Riessen at UCI
- Laurine van Riessen at Cycling Archives
- Laurine van Riessen at CycleBase
- Laurine van Riessen in SpeedSkatingBase.eu (archived)
- Laurine van Riessen at SpeedSkatingNews.info
- Laurine van Riessen at SpeedSkatingStats.com
- Laurine van Riessen at Olympics.com
- Laurine van Riessen at Olympedia
- Laurine van Riessen at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
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- 1987 births
- Dutch female speed skaters
- Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands
- Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in speed skating
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Leiden
- Speed skaters from South Holland
- Living people
- Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2019 European Games
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- European Games competitors for the Netherlands
- Cyclists from South Holland
- 21st-century Dutch women
- Dutch speed skating biography stubs
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
- Winter Olympic medalist stubs