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Anna van der Breggen (born 18 April 1990) is a Dutch professional
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, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for
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, , and . She won the gold medal in the women's road race at the
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in
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, and has won the
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on four occasions. In 2018 and 2020, she won the women's road race at the
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. Considered one of the most versatile riders of her generation, Van der Breggen excelled in both the one-day classics and
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, particularly when run on a hilly terrain. Apart from the Olympic road race title and three Giro Rosa titles, other notable wins include
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on seven consecutive occasions,
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two times, the
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,
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,
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,
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and the European Road Race Championships. In addition, she has won the general classification and numerous stages in smaller stage races. In 2017, she won all three
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races in one week, which earned her the nickname ''Queen of the Ardennes''. She went on to secure her second
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win the following summer. In April 2019, she won the
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, her fifth consecutive win in the race. In 2020, she won both the Individual Time Trial as well as the Road Race at the UCI World Championships. Following her retirement at the end of the 2021 season, Van der Breggen worked as a
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for her final professional team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . In June 2024, she announced that she would return to racing for the 2025 season.


Career


Early life and amateur career

Anna van der Breggen was born in
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into a cycling family. She has three brothers and a sister who all practiced cycling at some point. She started bike-racing at the age of seven with the local club ''WV Noordwesthoek'' and became more serious about it in the juniors category. In 2007, aged 17, she was fifth in the juniors world championship road race in
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but had a difficult transition to the elite category. She considered quitting the sport after she suffered in the back of the peloton during the
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.


2012–2013: Turning professional

Van der Breggen turned professional in 2012 with the . In April, she took a ninth-placed finish at the
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, and in July, she won the
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. She won three of the four stages and secured the overall classification with a lead of almost three minutes over
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. She also won the time trial at the
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as well as the gold medal in the women's under-23 time-trialling event at the
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. As a result, she was selected for the 2012 World Championships. Whilst playing a domestique role for her team leader,
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, she managed to finish fifth herself in the road race. In 2013 she devoted herself to finishing her studies and rode a low-key season, with the highlight of the year a fourth place at the
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. After she obtained her
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degree, she became a full-time professional cyclist and finished 18th in the
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in the summer. She was selected to compete in the
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in
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where she finished fourth in the road race. In preparation for the 2014 season, she announced she would be joining the team.


2014: Stage race success

Van der Breggen's first season on the Rabo team proved highly fruitful. She opened the year with top-10 finishes in the
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,
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, and the
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, and started showing her stage racing potential throughout the season. She claimed notable wins in the overall classification of both the Ladies Tour of Norway and
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in Luxembourg; as well as a runner-up spot in the
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and third places in the
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and the
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, in a podium made up entirely of riders. Her season came to an abrupt end when she broke her pelvis at the
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in
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, Spain. Her teammate
Annemiek van Vleuten Annemiek van Vleuten (; born 8 October 1982) is a retired Dutch professional Bicycle racing, road racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Van Vleuten is twice a winner of both the UCI Road World Cha ...
crashed just before the finish of the Women's Team Time Trial after clipping the roadside barriers and brought down van der Breggen and two other riders. Van der Breggen broke her ilium and was transported to hospital.


2015: First Giro Rosa win

She recovered from her
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in the winter of 2015 and won her first major classic, the
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, in late February. Van der Breggen had broken away from a lead group together with
Ellen van Dijk Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional Road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cycling, tr ...
on the
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, at from the finish. She beat her fellow Dutch in the sprint. The following week, she was second in
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. In April she won
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with an attack at the foot of the
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, and recorded several podium positions in one-day races. She highlighted her stage race potential again by taking the overall classification at the
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, which she led from the prologue to the end of the race. In June, she won the bronze medal in the women's road race at the inaugural European Games in
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. She was part of a four-woman breakaway together with Ellen van Dijk,
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and
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, when an acceleration by van der Breggen caused her teammate van Dijk to be dropped, for the race to be decided in a three-up sprint. Van der Breggen led out the sprint from afar but was passed by both Amialiusik and Niewiadoma. Van der Breggen claimed her greatest career victory to that point in July when she won the general classification at the
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, the most important stage race on the women's calendar and the only Grand Tour for women. She finished fourth in the prologue and second in stage 2, after which she remained in the top-three until the Alpine stages. Van der Breggen was in third position overall behind
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wearer
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, when she moved into the race lead on the penultimate day after winning the
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to
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. She won the time trial more than one minute ahead of Guarnier and secured her overall win with a second place in the
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. Later she won the second edition of
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on the
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; and she won the final stage of the
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in
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. At the
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in September in
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, she claimed the silver medals in both the
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and the road race. She finished at two seconds from
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in the time trial, and was narrowly beaten by
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in the road race after she started the sprint from afar. She ended the year as second in the
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, behind Armitstead, and was awarded the Gerrit Schulte Trophy for best female Dutch cyclist of the year.


2016: Olympic and European champion

Van der Breggen opened the 2016 season with 5th place at the
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, 4th at the
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and 6th at the
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in March; but failed to claim a victory until she successfully defended her title at
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. She counterattacked a move by
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on the Côte de Cherave, at from the finish, and was followed by only four others over the top. She broke clear again with Evelyn Stevens at from the finish and powered away from Stevens on the finishing
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to claim her second victory in succession. In July, she finished third overall in the
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. She was third in the prologue, but lost time in the mountain stages in the
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. She climbed back to third place after finishing second in stage 7's individual time trial and held on to her podium place until the finish. During the Giro she announced she would leave to join for the 2017 season onwards. On 7 August 2016, van der Breggen won the gold medal in the women's road race at the
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. On the final climb, the long Vista Chinesa, five riders had remained in the front: van der Breggen and her teammate Annemiek van Vleuten, American
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, Italian
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and Sweden's
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. Van Vleuten jumped away shortly before the top and only Abbott managed to join. In the sinuous descent that followed, van Vleuten distanced Abbott and looked on her way to win the race, when she crashed into a concrete banking with to go and needed to be transported to hospital. Suddenly Abbott seemed on her way to Olympic glory but she was caught back by the three upcoming riders at from the finish. Van der Breggen beat Johansson and Longo Borghini in the three-up sprint on
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to become Olympic road race champion. Three days later she won the bronze medal in the
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, 11 seconds behind winner
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. Following her Olympic success, she was knighted in the Order of Orange-Nassau. In mid-September, she took part in the
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. She finished second in the
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behind
Ellen van Dijk Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional Road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cycling, tr ...
. In the road race she followed an acceleration of Niewiadoma on the final climb, together with Longo Borghini,
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and
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. Van der Breggen launched the five-woman sprint from afar and became the first ever professional European road race champion. At the
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in October, she was a disappointing 13th in the
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and 87th in the road race, telling reporters she "didn't have the legs anymore after a long season".


2017: Ardennes Triple and second Giro win

After placing 15th in both the
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and the
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, and finishing second overall in the Healthy Ageing Tour in early 2017, van der Breggen became the first woman to win all three of the
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in a single year. She won the rebooted
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with an attack at from the finish. Three days later, she secured her third straight Flèche Wallonne win after powering away on the
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, before emerging triumphant at the first ever
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the following Sunday. Her dominance in the climbers races earned her the nickname ''Queen of the Ardennes''. Three weeks later she won the
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, after she surpassed Katie Hall during the last stage thanks to bonus seconds won at an intermediate sprint. In the summer, she won the
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for the second time. Her team had won the opening
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, and van der Breggen moved into the race lead after placing second in stage 2. She won the final general classification with more than a minute over
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and
Annemiek van Vleuten Annemiek van Vleuten (; born 8 October 1982) is a retired Dutch professional Bicycle racing, road racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Van Vleuten is twice a winner of both the UCI Road World Cha ...
. After
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's win in the men's Giro d'Italia held in May, it was the first time a Grand Tour was won by both a Dutch man and woman in the same year. Later, van der Breggen won a stage and was second overall in the
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, which secured her lead in the final standing of the
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ahead of van Vleuten. At the Road World Championships in Norway her team finished second to in the team time trial event. She also placed second in the
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behind van Vleuten, and eighth in the road race.


2018: Queen of the Classics and first rainbow jersey

As world number one, she kicked off the 2018 season at the
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. She won the race, in abysmal weather, after an attack on the penultimate gravel sector of Colle Pinzuto at from the finish. Three weeks later she won the
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after a solo breakaway. Van der Breggen made her decisive move on the
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and increased her lead over the
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and
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to claim her first Tour of Flanders win. The following week she won the opening time trial and finished fourth overall in the Healthy Ageing Tour, before attempting to defend her titles in the Ardennes classics. She finished 38th in the
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after an early crash, but won her fourth consecutive Flèche Wallonne three days later, on her 28th birthday. She concluded the Ardennes week with her second win in
Liège–Bastogne–Liège Liège–Bastogne–Liège , also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Cycling monument, Monuments'' of the Eur ...
, after she powered away from
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on the uphill drag to the finish line. Following the spring classics, van der Breggen was unable to mount a defence of her title at the
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and rode at the
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instead: the two races clashed on the calendar, Boels–Dolmans did not have enough riders or staff to send squads to both, and chose to enter the European race. Van der Breggen also elected not to defend her Giro Rosa title in 2018, choosing instead to focus on preparing for a bid to win her first title at the Road World Championships. She did compete in La Course in July, held on a mountainous parcours: van der Breggen attacked in the final kilometre of a climb up the
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and led over the top, being pursued on the 14 km descent by van Vleuten. However, van der Breggen ran out of steam on the rise to the finish line in
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, and was overhauled by van Vleuten in the last 100 metres of the race. The following month she raced at the
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, where she was narrowly defeated in the time trial by countrywoman Ellen van Dijk, securing a one-two for the Netherlands. At the Worlds in
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in September, she started her campaign by taking a silver alongside her Boels–Dolmans team-mates in the women's team time trial. She took a second silver in the
individual time trial An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also trac ...
, where she was denied the rainbow jersey by her compatriot van Vleuten and formed part of a Dutch clean sweep of the podium places ahead of the third placed van Dijk. She finally won her first Worlds gold in the road race, bridging over from a chase group to a group of five at the head of the race on the penultimate climb, before launching a solo attack with 39 km to go and crossing the finishing line alone with a lead of over three and a half minutes over runner-up Amanda Spratt.


2019: Success on- and off-road

Van der Breggen started her 2019 season relatively quietly, making her first two road appearances in the spring at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and
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: in the latter race she worked as a domestique for team-mate
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, who finished in second. Having made some appearances in mountain bike racing the previous year, in March she entered the
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mountain bike stage race alongside Langvad: the duo won the race by over half an hour. She subsequently announced that she would not defend her Tour of Flanders title so she could recover from her exertions at the Cape Epic, focusing instead on the Health Ageing Tour and the Ardennes Classics later in April. She went on to win her fifth consecutive
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attacking with 200 m to the finish line on the Mur de Huy to match Marianne Vos' record for wins at the race and securing her first road win since the 2018 Worlds. In May she won the overall at the
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, as well as taking the opening stage after attacking on the final climb of the day to cross the finishing line alone. Later in the year, van der Breggen won the
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with a solo attack from the finishing line. At the Road World Championships in
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, she took two silver medals: in the
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she finished behind champion
Chloé Dygert Chloé Dygert ( ; born January 1, 1997) is an American professional Bicycle racing, racing cyclist who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . She has won eight gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and four medal ...
and ahead of van Vleuten, whilst in the road race she acted as a marker in a chase group attempting to reel in her team-mate van Vleuten, who made an ultimately successful long-range solo attack with to go. Van der Breggen attacked fellow chaser Amanda Spratt in the closing kilometres of the course to secure the silver.


2020: Third Giro win and Worlds double

In 2020, van der Breggen enjoyed some early season success at the
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in February: she won the race's second stage with a solo attack on the final climb, the -long Alto de Tudons, taking the overall race lead in the process, which she held on the remaining two stages of the race. In May she announced that she would retire from competition at the end of 2021 after the postponed
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, which were scheduled to be held in the summer of 2021 due to the
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. Upon the resumption of racing in July, she finished third in the Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa and second in
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before placing fourth at
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. In August she won the
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for the first time in her career: before the halfway point of the race she and
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bridged across to van der Breggen's team-mate Jip van den Bos, who had earlier broken away from the peloton. Van der Breggen eventually dropped the other two riders at the front, whilst they were being chased by another three rider group of van Vleuten, Vos and
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, which similarly disintegrated when van Vleuten dropped the other two riders. Van der Breggen crossed the finish line over a minute ahead of van Vlueten in second. Shortly afterwards she took the gold medal in the individual time trial at the
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in
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, finishing 30 seconds ahead of van Dijk. The following month van der Breggen won the
Giro Rosa The is an annual women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's WorldTour, UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men' ...
, becoming the fourth woman to win three editions of the race. She went into the lead on the penultimate eighth stage, where she was pipped to the stage win by Elisa Longo Borghini after the pair went clear of the rest of the leading group on the final climb, taking the pink jersey from Katarzyna Niewiadoma, who in turn had inherited it after previous leader van Vleuten crashed out of the race on the previous day. Later that month, at the
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in
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, van der Breggen was crowned world time trial champion for the first time, having previously taken four silver medals in the event: she finished ahead of
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and van Dijk after reigning champion Dygert crashed out of the race. She went on to win a second road race world title, following and overhauling an acceleration by van Vleuten with an attack over the top of the penultimate climb of the Cima Gallisterna with to the finish, and taking victory with a margin of 1 minute 40 seconds over silver and bronze medallists van Vleuten and Longo Borghini. In doing so she became only the second rider in history to win world titles in the time trial and the road race in the same year, after
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in 1995. Shortly after the Worlds, van der Breggen set a new record for wins at
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when she won the race for a sixth time, moving one clear of Vos, outclimbing
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and
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up the final ascent of the Mur de Huy to clinch victory.


2021: Fourth Giro win, retirement

In 2021, van der Breggen won her fourth
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, as well as other races including
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(for a record seventh time), the
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, and
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. She also won the
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for the second time. At the
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, she won a bronze medal in the time trial competition, before retiring from professional competition.


''Directeur sportif'' role

Following her retirement, van der Breggen worked as a ''
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'' for her final professional team, UCI Women's WorldTeam
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.


Return to professional competition

In June 2024, van der Breggen announced that she would be returning to the professional peloton for the 2025 season with her former team,
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.


Personal life

Van der Breggen lives in
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, in the northeast of the Netherlands, with her husband Sierk Jan de Haan, who is a coach for
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. She comes from a religious family and is a member of the
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. She is a trained nurse, having graduated from nursing school in 2012. Apart from cycling, she plays the piano and enjoys painting and knitting.


Major results

Source: ;2007 : 5th Road race,
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;2008 : 6th Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships : 10th
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;2010 : 5th Gouden Pijl ;2012 (5 pro wins) : 1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 1st Overall
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::1st Points classification ::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stages 1, 2 (
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) & 4 : 1st
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: 2nd Overall
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::1st Stage 2 ( TTT) : 2nd
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: 4th
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: 5th Road race,
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: 5th
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, National Road Championships : 5th Overall
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: 5th Overall
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::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stage 2 (
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) : 6th
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: 6th Ronde van Luyksgestel : 7th Overall
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: 9th
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;2013 : 1st
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: 2nd Overall
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: 2nd Ronde van Zuid Oost-Friesland : 2nd RaboRonde Heerlen : 3rd
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: 4th Road race,
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: 4th Overall
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: 4th Overall
Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area. Er ...
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Open de Suède Vårgårda Open de Suède Vårgårda was an elite professional List of women's road bicycle races, women's road bicycle event held annually in the Vårgårda Municipality of Sweden. Created in 2006, the Open de Suède Vårgårda was part of the UCI Women's R ...
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Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...
::5th Road race : 4th
La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...
: 4th Holland Hills Classic : 4th Profwielerronde Etten-Leur : 4th Berkelse Wielerdag : 5th Overall
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. The race was first held in 2008 as a one-day race. Between 200 ...
: 5th Overall
Tour Languedoc Roussillon Tour Languedoc Roussillon was a women's staged cycle race which took place in France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include Fre ...
: 6th
Le Samyn Le Samyn is an annual single-day road bicycle race in Belgium, held usually in late February or early March. The event was created in 1968 as ''Grand Prix de Fayt-le-Franc'', named after the former municipality where it started and finished. In ...
: 7th Overall
Holland Ladies Tour The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons t ...
: 7th
Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders () may refer to the following cycle races: * Tour of Flanders (men's race) The Tour of Flanders (), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race held in Belgium every spri ...
: 8th
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and holds significant pre ...
: 9th
Trofeo Alfredo Binda Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a one day women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the region of Lombardy in ...
: 10th Overall Energiewacht Tour ;2014 (6) : 1st Overall
Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held annually in Norway. It is considered as a successor to the stage race Ringerike GP, which is now a one-day race. It was started in 2011 as a result of the heightened interest in cycling in Norway, ...
::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Overall
Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. The race was first held in 2008 as a one-day race. Between 200 ...
::1st Stage 1 : 1st
Dwars door de Westhoek Dwars door de Westhoek is an elite women's road bicycle race held annually in Roeselare, Belgium. The race is established in 2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events Janua ...
: 2nd Overall
Belgium Tour The Lotto Belgium Tour is an elite women's professional road bicycle stage race, held in Belgium since 2012. In the first year the tour consisted of three stages and grew with a team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle rac ...
::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stages 2 ( TTT) & 4 : 2nd
Ronde van Drenthe Ronde van Drenthe () was an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professiona ...
: 2nd
Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT Open or OPEN may refer to: Music * Open (band), Australian pop/rock band * The Open (band), English indie rock band * ''Open'' (Blues Image album), 1969 * ''Open'' (Gerd Dudek, Buschi Niebergall, and Edward Vesala album), 1979 * ''Open'' (Got ...
: 3rd Overall
Emakumeen Euskal Bira The Emakumeen Euskal Bira was a women's cycling race held in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Spain. It was held annually from 1988 to 2019, starting out as a two-stage race and building up to five stages in 2007. One of ...
::1st Mountains classification : 3rd Overall
Giro Rosa The is an annual women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's WorldTour, UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men' ...
: 4th
Trofeo Alfredo Binda Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a one day women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the region of Lombardy in ...
: 4th
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria is a women's bicycle race held in Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernm ...
: 5th
GP de Plouay GP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming * Gameplanet (New Zealand), a New Zealand video game community * GamePolitics.com, a blog about the politics of computer and video games * ''GamePro'', a monthly video game magazine * Gold ...
: 6th
Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders () may refer to the following cycle races: * Tour of Flanders (men's race) The Tour of Flanders (), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race held in Belgium every spri ...
: 7th Holland Hills Classic : 10th
Ronde van Gelderland The Ronde van Gelderland () was an elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's road bicycle race held in the Netherlands between 2003 and 2016. It was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI as a 1.2 category race, and was primarily ...
;2015 (11) : 1st
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
, National Road Championships : 1st Overall
Giro Rosa The is an annual women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's WorldTour, UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men' ...
::1st Stage 8 (
ITT ITT may refer to: Communication *Tank phone, Infantry-Tank Telephone, a device allowing infantrymen to speak to the occupants of armoured vehicles. Mathematics *Intuitionistic type theory, other name of Martin-Löf Type Theory *Intensional typ ...
) : 1st Overall
Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. The race was first held in 2008 as a one-day race. Between 200 ...
::1st Prologue : 1st
La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...
: 1st
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and holds significant pre ...
: 1st
La Course by Le Tour de France La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France, Champs-Élysées in ...
: 1st
Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT Open or OPEN may refer to: Music * Open (band), Australian pop/rock band * The Open (band), English indie rock band * ''Open'' (Blues Image album), 1969 * ''Open'' (Gerd Dudek, Buschi Niebergall, and Edward Vesala album), 1979 * ''Open'' (Got ...
: 2nd Overall
UCI Women's Road World Cup The UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup was a season-long List of women's road bicycle races, road bicycle competition for women organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale between 1998 and 2015. This competition consisted of a series (which h ...
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UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and , a UCI Road World Championships ...
::2nd Road race ::2nd
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
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Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...
: 2nd
Le Samyn Le Samyn is an annual single-day road bicycle race in Belgium, held usually in late February or early March. The event was created in 1968 as ''Grand Prix de Fayt-le-Franc'', named after the former municipality where it started and finished. In ...
: 3rd Road race,
European Games The European Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition contested by athletes from countries served by national Olympic committees within the European Olympic Committees (EOC), the regional association for such committ ...
: 3rd Overall
Belgium Tour The Lotto Belgium Tour is an elite women's professional road bicycle stage race, held in Belgium since 2012. In the first year the tour consisted of three stages and grew with a team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle rac ...
::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 4 : 3rd
Trofeo Alfredo Binda Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a one day women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the region of Lombardy in ...
: 3rd
Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders () may refer to the following cycle races: * Tour of Flanders (men's race) The Tour of Flanders (), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race held in Belgium every spri ...
: 3rd Time trial, EPZ Omloop van Borsele : 5th Overall
Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held annually in Norway. It is considered as a successor to the stage race Ringerike GP, which is now a one-day race. It was started in 2011 as a result of the heightened interest in cycling in Norway, ...
: 5th
Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche (; ) is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in ...
: 5th Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda : 6th
GP de Plouay GP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming * Gameplanet (New Zealand), a New Zealand video game community * GamePolitics.com, a blog about the politics of computer and video games * ''GamePro'', a monthly video game magazine * Gold ...
: 7th Overall Energiewacht Tour ::1st Combativity classification ::1st Prologue & Stage 4 : 7th
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria is a women's bicycle race held in Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernm ...
: 8th Overall
Emakumeen Euskal Bira The Emakumeen Euskal Bira was a women's cycling race held in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Spain. It was held annually from 1988 to 2019, starting out as a two-stage race and building up to five stages in 2007. One of ...
;2016 (4) :
Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ...
::1st Road race ::3rd
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
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UEC European Road Championships UEC may refer to: Organisations * Uganda Electoral Commission, the electoral commission of Uganda * Union Election Commission, the electoral commission of Myanmar * University of Electro-Communications, a university based in Chofu city, Tokyo, Japa ...
::1st Road race ::2nd
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
: 1st
Omloop van de IJsseldelta The Salverda Omloop van de IJsseldelta is a women's one-day cycle racing, cycle race held in the Netherlands. It is rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a category 1.2 race, having previously been a national-level event from 2009 to ...
: 1st
La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...
: 3rd Overall
Giro Rosa The is an annual women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's WorldTour, UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men' ...
: 3rd Overall
Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. The race was first held in 2008 as a one-day race. Between 200 ...
: 3rd Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT : 4th
Ronde van Drenthe Ronde van Drenthe () was an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professiona ...
: 5th
Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche (; ) is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in ...
: 5th
Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite The Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite is a women's cycle race which takes place in October in the historic region of Emilia in Italy. It is the women's race of the Giro dell'Emilia – a longstanding event on the men's cycling calendar ...
: 6th
Trofeo Alfredo Binda Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a one day women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the region of Lombardy in ...
: 7th Overall
Holland Ladies Tour The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons t ...
;2017 (6) : 1st Overall
UCI Women's World Tour The UCI Women's World Tour is the premier annual female elite road cycling tour. , the tour includes 27 events in Europe, Asia and Oceania – with one-day races such as Strade Bianche Donne and Paris–Roubaix Femmes, stage races such as Wo ...
: 1st Overall
Giro Rosa The is an annual women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's WorldTour, UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men' ...
::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 1st Overall
Tour of California The Tour of California (officially sponsored as the Amgen Tour of California) was an annual professional road cycling stage race on the UCI World Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that ran from 2006 to 2019. It was the only event on the ...
: 1st
Amstel Gold Race Amstel Gold Race may refer to: * Amstel Gold Race (men's race) The Amstel Gold Race is a one-day classic cycle races, classic road bicycle race, road cycling race held annually since 1966 Amstel Gold Race, 1966 in the province of Limburg (Netherl ...
: 1st
La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...
: 1st
Liège–Bastogne–Liège Liège–Bastogne–Liège , also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Cycling monument, Monuments'' of the Eur ...
: 1st Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour TTT :
UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and , a UCI Road World Championships ...
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Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
::2nd
Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...
::8th Road race : 2nd Overall
Holland Ladies Tour The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons t ...
::1st Stage 5 : 2nd Overall Healthy Ageing Tour ::1st Stage 2 ( TTT) : 3rd Time trial,
UEC European Road Championships UEC may refer to: Organisations * Uganda Electoral Commission, the electoral commission of Uganda * Union Election Commission, the electoral commission of Myanmar * University of Electro-Communications, a university based in Chofu city, Tokyo, Japa ...
: 3rd
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
, National Road Championships ;2018 (7) :
UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and , a UCI Road World Championships ...
::1st Road race ::2nd
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
::2nd
Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...
: 1st Overall Cyprus Sunshine Cup ::1st Stage 2 : 1st
Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche (; ) is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in ...
: 1st
Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders () may refer to the following cycle races: * Tour of Flanders (men's race) The Tour of Flanders (), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race held in Belgium every spri ...
: 1st
La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...
: 1st
Liège–Bastogne–Liège Liège–Bastogne–Liège , also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Cycling monument, Monuments'' of the Eur ...
: 1st
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria is a women's bicycle race held in Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernm ...
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UEC European Road Championships UEC may refer to: Organisations * Uganda Electoral Commission, the electoral commission of Uganda * Union Election Commission, the electoral commission of Myanmar * University of Electro-Communications, a university based in Chofu city, Tokyo, Japa ...
::2nd Time trial ::8th Road race : 2nd
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
, National Road Championships : 2nd
La Course by Le Tour de France La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France, Champs-Élysées in ...
: 2nd Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda WestSweden TTT : 3rd Overall
Emakumeen Euskal Bira The Emakumeen Euskal Bira was a women's cycling race held in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Spain. It was held annually from 1988 to 2019, starting out as a two-stage race and building up to five stages in 2007. One of ...
::1st Points classification : 3rd Overall
Holland Ladies Tour The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons t ...
: 4th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour ::1st Stages 1 (
ITT ITT may refer to: Communication *Tank phone, Infantry-Tank Telephone, a device allowing infantrymen to speak to the occupants of armoured vehicles. Mathematics *Intuitionistic type theory, other name of Martin-Löf Type Theory *Intensional typ ...
) & 3b ( TTT) ;2019 (5) : 1st Overall
Tour of California The Tour of California (officially sponsored as the Amgen Tour of California) was an annual professional road cycling stage race on the UCI World Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that ran from 2006 to 2019. It was the only event on the ...
::1st Sprints classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Overall
Cape Epic The Absa Cape Epic or the Cape Epic, founded by Kevin Vermaak is an annual mountain bike stage race held in the Western Cape, South Africa. First staged in 2004, it has been accredited as ''hors catégorie'' (beyond categorization) by the Un ...
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Annika Langvad Annika Langvad (born 22 March 1984) is a Danish former racing cyclist, who rode for Specialized Racing in cross-country mountain bike racing. Langvad is a five-time World Champion in mountain bike racing, winning four titles in mountain bike m ...
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La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...
: 1st
GP de Plouay GP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming * Gameplanet (New Zealand), a New Zealand video game community * GamePolitics.com, a blog about the politics of computer and video games * ''GamePro'', a monthly video game magazine * Gold ...
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UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and , a UCI Road World Championships ...
::2nd Road race ::2nd
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
: 2nd Overall
Giro Rosa The is an annual women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's WorldTour, UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men' ...
::1st Stage 9 : 3rd
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
, National Road Championships : 9th Overall
Holland Ladies Tour The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons t ...
: 9th
Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche (; ) is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in ...
: 10th
La Course by Le Tour de France La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France, Champs-Élysées in ...
;2020 (8) :
UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and , a UCI Road World Championships ...
::1st Road race ::1st
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
: 1st Time trial,
UEC European Road Championships UEC may refer to: Organisations * Uganda Electoral Commission, the electoral commission of Uganda * Union Election Commission, the electoral commission of Myanmar * University of Electro-Communications, a university based in Chofu city, Tokyo, Japa ...
: 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Overall
Giro Rosa The is an annual women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's WorldTour, UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men' ...
: 1st Overall
Setmana Ciclista Valenciana The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana is an annual professional road bicycle race Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing ...
::1st Stage 2 : 1st
La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...
: 2nd
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria is a women's bicycle race held in Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernm ...
: 3rd Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa : 4th
Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche (; ) is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in ...
;2021 (10) : 1st
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
, National Road Championships : 1st Overall
Giro Rosa The is an annual women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's WorldTour, UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men' ...
::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 (
ITT ITT may refer to: Communication *Tank phone, Infantry-Tank Telephone, a device allowing infantrymen to speak to the occupants of armoured vehicles. Mathematics *Intuitionistic type theory, other name of Martin-Löf Type Theory *Intensional typ ...
) : 1st Overall
Vuelta a Burgos Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Burgos (province), Burgos province of Spain. The men's Vuelta a Burgos has been a multi-day stage race as part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005. In ...
::1st Points classification ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 4 : 1st
La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...
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Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and holds significant pre ...
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Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar The Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held annually in Eibar, Spain. The event was initially planned to take place in 2020, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, it first ...
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Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria is a women's bicycle race held in Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernm ...
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Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
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Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ...
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Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche (; ) is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in ...
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La Course by Le Tour de France La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France, Champs-Élysées in ...
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Liège–Bastogne–Liège Liège–Bastogne–Liège , also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Cycling monument, Monuments'' of the Eur ...
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Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders () may refer to the following cycle races: * Tour of Flanders (men's race) The Tour of Flanders (), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race held in Belgium every spri ...
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Giro d'Italia The Giro d'Italia (; ), also known simply as the Giro, is an annual stage race, multiple-stage bicycle racing, bicycle race primarily held in Italy, while also starting in, or passing through, other countries. The first race was organized in 19 ...
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Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche (; ) is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name stems from the historic white gravel roads in ...
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Setmana Ciclista Valenciana The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana is an annual professional road bicycle race Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing ...
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Omloop van het Hageland The Omloop van het Hageland is an elite women's professional road bicycle race held since 2007 in the Hageland area of Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland ...


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UCI Women's Road World Cup The UCI Women's Road Cycling World Cup was a season-long List of women's road bicycle races, road bicycle competition for women organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale between 1998 and 2015. This competition consisted of a series (which h ...
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UCI Women's World Tour The UCI Women's World Tour is the premier annual female elite road cycling tour. , the tour includes 27 events in Europe, Asia and Oceania – with one-day races such as Strade Bianche Donne and Paris–Roubaix Femmes, stage races such as Wo ...
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List of women's road bicycle races This is a list of women's road cycling races. The list only includes the most important women's road races, and no track cycling, track, mountain biking, mountain or cyclo-cross races. Championships * UCI Road World Championships: UCI Road World C ...


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