Adrie Visser

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**Adrie Visser**
Personal information

Full name	Adrie Visser
Date of birth	October 19, 1983 (age 23)
Country	Netherlands
Team information
Current team	AA Cycling Team
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinting specialist
Professional team(s)
2004 2005-	Farm Frites-Hartol AA Cycling Team
Major wins
World Cup Scratch Race (2004 Sydney, 2005 Manchester)

Infobox last updated on:
January 17, 2007

Adrie Visser (born October 19, 1983 in Hoorn) is a Dutch track and road racer 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 on the 500 m time trial and sprint. She also won a silver medal at the points race. At the world championships in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania, USA, she was seventh in the 500m time trial and took eighth place in the sprint and individual pursuit.

She won a bronze medal at the World Track Championships 2003 in Stuttgart. In the same year she won the Dutch points race, scratch and individual pursuit championships for the first time. In May 2004 she won her first World Cup meeting in Sydney, where she won the scratch before finishing 10th at the world championships in Melbourne the week after.

Her first achievement in road cycling was the blue jersey for sprints she won in the Eumakumeen Bira in June 2004. A month later she won her first road race in Alblasserdam. Back on the track later that year she won another three Dutch national titles (points, individual pursuit and scratch). At the world championships in Manchester, England, in 2005, she finished just outside the medals in fourth position in the scratch event. She was fifth in the points race and seventh in the individual 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 the Egmond-Pier-Egmond race. In March she won the road race in Oud Vossemeer. She finished in the top 10 at the national road championships in both the road race and the time trial (7th and 9th). Between July 15 and August 1 she won four road races (Ochten), Barendrecht, Alblasserdam and Surhuizerveen). Dutch national coach Egon van Kessel selected her for the World Championships again following these results.

Together with Suzanne de Goede, Angela Brodtka and Theresa Senff she belongs to the AA Cycling Team coached by former world champion Leontien van Moorsel.