Leontien van Moorsel

Leontien van Moorsel
	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
Medal record
Representing the Netherlands
Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
World Championships
Track cycling
Olympic Games
World Championships

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Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970) is a Dutch retired racing cyclist. She rode at three Olympic Games.^[1]

Career

Van Moorsel started her career in 1977. 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,^[3] 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.^[4]

She set a new world hour record for women of 46.065 km, in 2003 in Mexico City,^[5] 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.

Major results

1077; Grote Prijs van Boekel; 1988; Grote Prijs van Breskens; 1989; National Champion Road Race Rheden Gelderland
1990: World champion 3km pursuit Maybassa Japan; World champion 50km team time trial with Asrid Schop Monique Knol , Cora Westland
1991: World champion road race Stuttgart Germany
1992: Tour Feminin Paris France
1993: World champion road race Oslo Norway; Tour Feminin Alpe d'Huez
1998: World champion time trial Valkenburg Netherlands
1999: World champion time trial Treviso Italy
2000: Olympic champion road race Sydney Austtalië; Olympic champion time trial; Olympic champion 3km pursuit new world record 3.30,816; Olympic silver medallist points race
2001: World champion 3km pursuit Antwerpen
2002: World champion 3km pursuit Kopenhagen; Winner Ster van de Zeeuwse Eilanden (3 stages and overall winner)
2003: World champion 3km pursuit Stuttgart; World hour record: 46.065 km; Winner Omloop van Borselse
2004: 10* National Champion Road Race Rotterdam; 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.^[6] 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 4 December 2016. 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.
^ 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

Template:Nl icon Official site
Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel at Cycling Archives (archived)

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

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 4 December 2016. 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.

[4] ttp://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

[Grdn-5] 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.

[cninterview-6] Knapp, Gerard (2001). "Cyclingnews talks with Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 25 August 2012.

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v t e UCI Road World Championships – Women's team time trial
National teams	1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993
Trade teams	2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

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)

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National	United States Netherlands