Carlijn Achtereekte (; born 29 January 1990) is a Dutch former

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and current

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, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Achtereekte won three silver medals in the 5000 metres at the Dutch Single Distance Championships. At the

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, she won the silver medal at the

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event behind

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. Currently Achtereekte is a professional

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, competing for Team Jumbo–Visma. At the

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, her first Olympic Games, Achtereekte took a surprise gold medal in the

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, leading home team-mates

Ireen Wüst Irene Karlijn "Ireen" Wüst (; born 1 April 1986) is a Dutch former long track speed skater. Wüst became the most successful speed skating Olympian ever by achieving at least one gold medal in each of five consecutive Winter Olympic appearan ...

and

Antoinette de Jong Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong (; ; born 6 April 1995) is a Dutch speed skater. She won the bronze medal in the 3000 m at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. She also competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Sochi ( rus ...

in a Dutch clean sweep of the podium, despite never having won a

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race. On 23 March 2018 she was awarded Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau by

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Personal records

Per January 2022 she is ranked 11th on the adelskalender with a points total of 157.360

Tournament overview

source:

Medals won

Cycling career

Achtereekte signed with on 1 June 2022.

Major results

;2023 : 2nd La Picto-Charentaise

References

External links

* * * * 1990 births Dutch female speed skaters Dutch female cyclists Sportspeople from Deventer Speed skaters from Overijssel Living people Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for Norway Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in speed skating World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau 21st-century Dutch sportswomen Long stubs with short prose {{Netherlands-speed-skating-bio-stub