Leontien van Moorsel

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Leontien van Moorsel
Van Moorsel in 1991
Personal information
Full nameLeontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel
Born (1970-03-22) 22 March 1970 (age 54)
Boekel, Netherlands
Team information
DisciplineRoad & track
RoleRider
Medal record
Representing the  Netherlands
Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Road race
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Time trial
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1991 Stuttgart Road race
Gold medal – first place 1993 Oslo Road race
Gold medal – first place 1998 Valkenburg Time trial
Gold medal – first place 1999 Verona Time trial
Silver medal – second place 1998 Valkenburg Road race
Track cycling
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Points race
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Individual pursuit
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1990 Maebashi City Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2001 Antwerp Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2002 Copenhagen Individual pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2003 Stuttgart Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 1998 Bordeaux Individual pursuit

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

Leontien van Moorsel in 2004

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.

See also

References

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

External links

Awards

Awards
Preceded by Dutch Sportswoman of the Year
1990 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Dutch Sportswoman of the Year
1993 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Dutch Sportswoman of the Year
1999, 2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Dutch Sportswoman of the Year
2003, 2004 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year
1998–2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year
2002–2004 		Succeeded by
Records
Preceded by UCI women's hour record (46.065 km)
1 October 2003 – 12 September 2015 		Succeeded by
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