Adriana ("Adrie") Visser (born 19 October 1983 in

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) is a former Dutch

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and

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who lives in Wieringerwerf. Visser started her professional career in 2001, when she finished second at the Dutch road race championship. She came fifth in the time trial. In track cycling she won her first national titles, becoming Dutch champion in the 500m time trial and sprint. She also won a silver medal in the points race. At the world championships in

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, USA, she was seventh in the 500m time trial and eighth in the sprint and individual pursuit. She won a bronze medal at the 2003 World Track Championships in

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. In the same year she won the Dutch points, scratch and individual pursuit championships for the first time. In May 2004 she won her first World Cup meeting in

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, where she won the scratch before finishing 10th at the world championships in Melbourne a week later. Her first achievement in road cycling was the blue jersey for sprints in the Eumakumeen Bira in June 2004. A month later she won her first road race in Alblasserdam. Back on the track that year she won another three national titles (

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, individual pursuit and scratch). She also took part in the

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participating in the points race and finishing 11th. At the world championships in Manchester, England, in 2005, she finished fourth in the scratch event. She was fifth in the points race and seventh in the pursuit. In June on the road she won the Omloop Middag-Humsterland, Profronde van Stiphout and a race in Dalen. These brought her into the national team for the world road championship for the first time, finishing 84th in Madrid. She won her second World Cup track event in Manchester where she won the scratch again before defending her three national Dutch titles. 2006 started well when in January she won

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. In March she won the road race in

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. She finished in the top 10 in both the road race and the time trial championship (7th and 9th). Between 15 July and 1 August she won four road races; (

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), Barendrecht, Alblasserdam and Surhuisterveen). Dutch national coach

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selected her for the World championship again following these results. On 31 March 2007, Visser took the bronze medal in the scratch race at the UCI Track World Championships in

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. Two weeks later, she won her first big UCI Women's Road World Cup race, the Ronde van Drenthe (Netherlands).

Palmares

Road cycling

;2009 – DSB Bank–LTO 2009 season ;2010 – Team HTC–Columbia 2010 season ;2011 – HTC–Highroad 2011 season 1st, 2011 Sparkassen Giro Bochum ;2012 – Team Skil–Argos 2012 season 1st,

2012 Le Samyn des Dames The 2012 Le Samyn des Dames was the first running of the women's Le Samyn, a women's bicycle race in Fayt-le-Franc, Belgium. It was held on 29 February 2012 over a distance of starting in Frameries and finishing in Dour Dour (; pcd, Doû) i ...

;2013 – Boels–Dolmans Cycling Team 2013 season

Track cycling

;2003 :1st, Scratch,

Dutch National Track Championships The Dutch National Track Championships are the set of Dutch national championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are organized by the KNWU. There are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling i ...

;2004 :1st, Scratch,

;2005 :1st, Scratch,

;2006 :1st, Scratch,

2006 Dutch National Track Championships The 2006 Dutch National Track Championships were the Dutch national Championship for track cycling. The competitions took place at Sportpaleis Alkmaar in Alkmaar, Netherlands, the Netherlands from December 28 to December 30. Competitions were held ...

:1st, Points race,

;2007 :1st,

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, ( World Cup) :2nd, Scratch,

2007 Dutch National Track Championships The 2007 Dutch National Track Championships were the Dutch national Championship for track cycling. The competitions took place at Sportpaleis Alkmaar in Alkmaar, the Netherlands from December 27 to December 30. Competitions were held of various t ...

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Palmares

Road cycling

Track cycling

See also

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