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Elis Ligtlee (born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch
Team Sprint (with 500m Time Trial
::3rd Sprint
:Grand Prix Sprint Apeldoorn
::2nd Sprint
::3rd Keirin
;2014
:1st Sprint, Revolution – Round 3, Manchester
:1st Sprint, Champions of Sprint
:Festival of Speed
::1st Sprint
::2nd Keirin
:Open des Nations sur Piste de Roubaix
::1st Keirin
::2nd Sprint
::2nd Team Sprint (with Keirin
::2nd 
Sprint
::2nd Team Sprint (with 
500m Time Trial
:UEC European Track Championships
::2nd 500m Time Trial
::3rd Team Sprint (with Keirin
::1st Sprint
::2nd 500m Time Trial
::3rd Team Sprint (with Sprint
::2nd 500m Time Trial
::3rd Keirin
::3rd Team Sprint (with Kyra Lamberink)
:3rd Keirin, Fastest Man on Wheels
;2016
:1st 
Keirin, Olympic Games
:UEC European U23 Track Championships
::1st 
Keirin
::1st Sprint
::1st Team Sprint (with Kyra Lamberink)
::1st 500m Time Trial
:1st Keirin, Oberhausen
:1st Sprint, Öschelbronn
:1st Sprint, Dudenhofen
: 3rd Sprint, UCI World Track Cycling Championships
;2017
:2nd Sprint, Belgian International Track Meeting
:3rd Sprint, Internationaal Baan Sprint Keirin Toernooi
:3rd Keirin, Troféu Internacional de Anadia
track cyclist
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles.
History
Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it ...
. She represented her nation at the 2014
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and 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling in 2015. They took place in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (part of the Paris Metropolitan Area) at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 18� ...
. She won the gold medal in the keirin
– literally "racing cycle" – is a form of motor-paced cycle racing in which track cyclists sprint for victory following a speed-controlled start behind a motorized or non-motorized pacer. It was developed in Japan around 1948 for gamblin ...
race at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Following her Olympic victory, Ligtlee was officially inducted to the Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau
The Order of Orange-Nassau ( nl, Orde van Oranje-Nassau, links=no) is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands.
The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has ...
.
Major results
;2013 :Revolution ::1st Sprint – Round 2, Glasgow ::2nd Keirin – Round 2, Glasgow :UEC European U23 Track Championships ::1st Team Sprint (with Shanne Braspennincx
Shanne Braspennincx (born 18 May 1991) is a Dutch track cyclist. She competed at the 2014 and 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. She won the gold medal in the keirin race at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Career Results
;2012
:3rd Team Spr ...
)
::1st 500m Time Trial
::3rd Sprint
:Grand Prix Sprint Apeldoorn
::2nd Sprint
::3rd Keirin
;2014
:1st Sprint, Revolution – Round 3, Manchester
:1st Sprint, Champions of Sprint
:Festival of Speed
::1st Sprint
::2nd Keirin
:Open des Nations sur Piste de Roubaix
::1st Keirin
::2nd Sprint
::2nd Team Sprint (with Shanne Braspennincx
Shanne Braspennincx (born 18 May 1991) is a Dutch track cyclist. She competed at the 2014 and 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. She won the gold medal in the keirin race at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Career Results
;2012
:3rd Team Spr ...
)
:UEC European U23 Track Championships
::1st Keirin
::2nd Sprint
::2nd Team Sprint (with Yesna Rijkhoff
Yesna Rijkhoff (born 9 December 1992) is a track cyclist from Netherlands. She represented her nation at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Career results
;2012
:3rd Team Sprint, UEC European U23 Track Championships (with Shanne ...
)
::3rd 500m Time Trial
:UEC European Track Championships
::2nd 500m Time Trial
::3rd Team Sprint (with Shanne Braspennincx
Shanne Braspennincx (born 18 May 1991) is a Dutch track cyclist. She competed at the 2014 and 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. She won the gold medal in the keirin race at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Career Results
;2012
:3rd Team Spr ...
)
:2nd Sprint, US Sprint GP
:2nd Team Sprint, Cottbuser Nächte (with Shanne Braspennincx
Shanne Braspennincx (born 18 May 1991) is a Dutch track cyclist. She competed at the 2014 and 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. She won the gold medal in the keirin race at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Career Results
;2012
:3rd Team Spr ...
)
:2nd Sprint, Track-Cycling Challenge Grenchen
:Sprintermeeting
::2nd Sprint
::3rd Keirin
;2015
:UEC European Track Championships
::1st Keirin
::1st Sprint
::2nd 500m Time Trial
::3rd Team Sprint (with Laurine van Riessen
Laurine van Riessen (born 10 August 1987) is a long track speed skater and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Track Team . She competed for the Netherlands at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in the 500, 1000, and 1500 metres and won ...
)
:1st Sprint, US Sprint GP
:1st Sprint, Festival of Speed
:2nd Sprint, Open des Nations sur Piste de Roubaix
:UEC European U23 Track Championships
::2nd Sprint
::2nd 500m Time Trial
::3rd Keirin
::3rd Team Sprint (with Kyra Lamberink)
:3rd Keirin, Fastest Man on Wheels
;2016
:1st Keirin, Olympic Games
:UEC European U23 Track Championships
::1st Keirin
::1st Sprint
::1st Team Sprint (with Kyra Lamberink)
::1st 500m Time Trial
:1st Keirin, Oberhausen
:1st Sprint, Öschelbronn
:1st Sprint, Dudenhofen
: 3rd Sprint, UCI World Track Cycling Championships
;2017
:2nd Sprint, Belgian International Track Meeting
:3rd Sprint, Internationaal Baan Sprint Keirin Toernooi
:3rd Keirin, Troféu Internacional de Anadia
References
External links
* * * * * * * * 1994 births Living people Dutch female cyclists Dutch track cyclists Sportspeople from Deventer Cyclists from Overijssel Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in cycling Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1990s-stub