van VLEUTEN Annemiek

CYCLING ROAD

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Road Race
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	DNF
2012	London, GBR	14

UCI Road World Championships

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial	Team Time Trial
2020	Imola, ITA	2	-	-
2019	Harrogate, GBR	1	3	-
2018	Innsbruck, AUT	7	1	-
2017	Bergen, NOR	4	1	-
2016	Doha, QAT	53	5	-
2014	Ponferrada, ESP	-	-	14
2013	Florence, ITA	15	-	2
2012	Valkenburg, NED	11	-	4
2011	Copenhagen, DEN	24	-	-
2010	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	25	-	-

Ten best performances in major races in career

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2021	Road Race	Ronde van Vlaanderen	Oudenaarde, BEL
1	2020	Road Race	Strade Bianche	Siena, ITA
1	2019	Women's Individual	Giro Rosa	Udine, ITA
1	2019	Road Race	Liege - Bastogne - Liege	Liege, BEL
1	2019	Road Race	Strade Bianche	Siena, ITA
1	2018	Women's Individual	Boels Ladies Tour	Roosendaal, NED
1	2018	Road Race	La Course by Le Tour	Le Grand-Bornand, FRA
1	2018	Women's Individual	Giro Rosa	Cividale del Friuli, ITA
1	2017	Women's Individual	Boels Ladies Tour	Sittard, NED
1	2017	Road Race	La Course by Le Tour	Col d'Izoard, FRA
1	2017	Road Race	La Course by Le Tour	Marseille, FRA
1	2017	Road Race	Great Ocean Road Race	Geelong, VIC, AUS
1	2011	Road Race	GP de Plouay	Plouay, FRA
1	2011	Road Race	Open de Suede	Vargarda, SWE
1	2011	Road Race	Ronde van Vlaanderen	Meerbeke, BEL

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

CYCLING TRACK

World Championships

Year	Location	3km IP
2018	Apeldoorn, NED	2

European Championships

Year	Location	3km IP
2017	Berlin, GER	4

World Cup (Ranking)

Rank	Event	Year
2	3km Individual Pursuit	2017/2018

World Cup

Year	Location	3km IP
2017/2018	Pruszkow, POL	2

Legend
IP - Individual Pursuit, TP - Team Pursuit, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Vleuty (cyclingweekly.com, 14 Jan 2020)

Travel, scuba diving, playing board games. (Instagram profile, 19 Mar 2020)

Athlete, Business Owner

Animal Science - University of Wageningen, Netherlands

Dutch, English

Movistar Team Women [Spain] since 2021

She has represented the Netherlands in track cycling, and won silver in individual pursuit at the 2018 World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. She has also competed in cyclo-cross at international level. (SportsDeskOnline, 27 Mar 2020; nos.nl, 03 Mar 2018)

Turned professional in 2007

She broke her wrist and required surgery after a crash on stage seven of the 2020 Giro Rosa in Italy. Nine days later she won a silver medal in the road race at the 2020 World Championships in Imola, Italy. (bbc.co.uk, 26 Sep 2020, 21 Sep 2020, 17 Sep 2020)

A knee injury meant she missed 10 weeks of training over the northern hemisphere winter of 2018/19. (bbc.co.uk, 09 Mar 2019)

She sustained three spinal fractures and a concussion after crashing during the road race at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (bbc.co.uk, 09 Mar 2019)

She suffered from an artery stenosis in October 2011 and required surgery. She had a further operation on the problem in October 2013. (annemiekvanvleuten.nl, 24 Jun 2016)

She had surgery on her collarbone in December 2012. (annemiekvanvleuten.nl, 24 Jun 2016)

She tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her knee in 2005. (annemiekvanvleuten.nl, 24 Jun 2016)

She began cycling as a sport in 2006. (annemiekvanvleuten.nl, 04 Apr 2012)

Before she started cycling, she was active in football, riding horses, and gymnastics. During a football competition in 2005, she tore her anterior cruciate ligament so her doctor advised her to begin swimming or cycling. (annemiekvanvleuten.nl, 04 Apr 2012)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (knhs.nl, 10 Nov 2018)

Winning the women's road race at the 2019 World Championships in Yorkshire, England. (nu.nl, 28 Sep 2019; theguardian.com, 28 Sep 2019)

She wears earrings that she received from her late father. (wielerkrant.be, 28 Sep 2019)

"Keep believing in yourself." (annemiekvanvleuten.nl, 24 Jun 2016)

She was named the 2020 International Rider of the Year by Cycling Weekly magazine. (cyclingweekly.com, 15 Dec 2020)

In 2017 and 2019 she received the Keetie van Oosten-Hage Trofee award as the best female cyclist in the Netherlands. (stadwageningen.nl, 20 Nov 2019)

In December 2018 she was presented with the Sports Prize of the Gelderland province in the Netherlands. (omroepgelderland.nl, 11 Dec 2018)

In December 2018 she was named Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau at the Dutch Cycling Gala in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. (omroepgelderland.nl, 03 Dec 2018)