LOOSER Vera

CYCLING ROAD

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Road Race
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	DNF

African Games

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial
2019	Benslimane, MAR	3	3

African Championships

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial
2021	Cairo, EGY	3	3
2019	Bahir Dar, ETH	5	6
2018	Kigali, RWA	7	6

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, OTL - Outside the Time Limit

CYCLING MOUNTAIN BIKE

World Championships

Year	Location	XCO Team Relay X
2013	Pietermaritzburg, RSA	12

Legend
IP - In Progress, XCO - Cross-country, X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Vera Looser

Athlete

Accounting, Commerce, Management - Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Husband Konny Looser

English, German

Her husband Konny Looser has competed in mountain biking for Switzerland. (Instagram profile, 03 Mar 2020; inthebunch.co.za, 01 Jan 2020)

She represented Namibia in mountain biking at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. She competed at national level in swimming, and also participated in triathlon at the African championships at age 14. (namibian.com.na, 03 Mar 2016; wheeler.ch, 01 Aug 2015; olympic.org.na, 04 Aug 2014; the-sports.org, 02 Mar 2014)

Turned professional in 2017

After finishing high school she was diagnosed with Iliotibial Band Syndrome, where the ligament that runs down the outside of the thigh from the hip to the shin is tight or inflamed. It took her a while to discover what the injury was and she considered quitting the sport due to the injury. (wheeler.ch, 01 Aug 2015)

She joined a junior cycling development group at age seven. She started with mountain biking before also taking up road cycling. (namibian.com.na, 03 Mar 2016; wheeler.ch, 01 Aug 2015)

Her cousins were cycling so she and her brother wanted to try. She took up both swimming and cycling as a young child but then chose to focus on cycling at age 16. "I was still swimming at the age of 16 and had to decide which sport to drop and which one to specialise in. I thought I'd have a better chance to do well in cycling because at the time the women's field was not that strong while swimming was getting a bit monotonous." (namibian.com.na, 03 Mar 2016; wheeler.ch, 01 Aug 2015)

South African cyclist Anriette Schoemann, Canadian mountain biker Emily Betty. (namibian.com.na, 03 Mar 2016)

"Life is there to be lived." (Instagram profile, 10 Jul 2020)

In 2014 she was named Namibian Sportswoman of the Year. (namibian.com.na, 03 Mar 2016)