Iris Slappendel (born 18 February 1985) is a Dutch former

road racing cyclist 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, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

Career

She won the 2012

Open de Suède Vårgårda Open de Suède Vårgårda is an elite professional women's road bicycle event held annually in the Vårgårda Municipality of Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names state ...

road race, the penultimate event in the

2012 UCI Women's Road World Cup The 2012 UCI Women's Road World Cup was the 15th edition of the UCI Women's Road World Cup. The calendar was to retain the same races as the 2011 edition, with the only change being the rescheduling of the Ronde van Drenthe to be the first race ...

. Slappendel took a total of five UCI race victories in her career, including the

GP Comune di Cornaredo The GP Comune di Cornaredo is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Italy and is currently rated by the UCI as a 1.2 race. Past winners References Cycle races in Italy Women's road bicycle races Rec ...

and stages of the

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, the

Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden The Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden also known as Rabo Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden due to former sponsorships reasons is a 3 days elite women's road bicycle stage race held in the province of Zeeland, Netherlands. The race was established in 1998 and was nam ...

and La Route de France. In September 2014 Slappendel announced that she would join the for the 2015 season. After one season she moved to , racing mainly in North America. In September 2016 she announced her retirement from professional competition, having won her final race, the

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, earlier that month.

Personal life

Outside of cycling, she works

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as a designer, and she won a competition to design new jerseys for the leaders of the season-long classifications of the UCI Women's Road World Cup, to be used from the 2014 season. Since retiring, Slappendel has continued her career as a designer and started her own business that designs and manufactures cycling apparel. Having previously represented female riders in the UCI Athlete's Commission from 2015 to 2017, Slappendel now dedicates her time to The Cyclists' Alliance as executive director.

Major results

;2006 : 3rd Overall

;2007 : 8th

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, National Road Championships ;

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: 5th

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, National Road Championships : 9th Overall

: 10th Peperbus Profspektakel ;2009 : 2nd Omloop Van De Blauwe Stad : 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT : 3rd Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs : 4th Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen : 8th

, 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 ...

: 9th

Omloop van Borsele Omloop van Borsele ("Circuit of Borsele") is an elite women's professional road bicycle race held annually since 2002 in Borsele, Netherlands. Since 2012, the event also contains a time trial. The time trial is together with the GP Leende Gran ...

;2010 : 1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT : 2nd Overall

: 3rd Parkhotel Rooding Hills Classic : 5th

, National Road Championships : 6th Omloop Door Middag-humsterland : 8th Overall

::1st Stage 6 : 10th

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 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 ...

: 10th

Ronde van Drenthe Ronde van Drenthe ( en, Tour of Drenthe) is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drenthe, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union. Since 1998 there is also a women's event, kn ...

;2011 : 3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar : 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT : 4th

, National Road Championships : 5th

Erondegemse Pijl Erondegemse Pijl (also known as Erpe-Mere) is an elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Belgium and is currently rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI as a 1.2 race. Past winner ...

: 6th Overall

: 7th Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin : 7th

: 8th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg : 9th

;

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: 1st

: National Road Championships ::3rd

::10th

: 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT : 4th

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 ...

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 mixed team relay. Events ...

: 4th Overall

::1st Prologue : 6th Overall Energiewacht Tour : 6th

: 6th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg ;2013 : 2nd

Grand Prix de Dottignies The Grand Prix de Dottignies is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Belgium and is currently rated by the UCI as a 1.2 race. Past winners References Cycle races in Belgium Women's roa ...

: 3rd Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik : 8th

, National Road Championships : 8th Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin : 8th Overall Energiewacht Tour ;

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: 1st Overall Sprints classification UCI Women's Road World Cup : 1st MaillotHolanda

, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 7 La Route de France : 8th

Ronde van Overijssel Ronde van Overijssel ( en, Tour of Overijssel) is an elite men's road bicycle racing event held annually in Overijssel, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union. The event is UCI 1.2 rated, and is part of the UCI Europe To ...

: 10th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar : 10th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup ;2015 : 8th

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the Tou ...

;2016 : 1st

References

External links

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Iris Slappendel profile
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