Linda Villumsen
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Linda Melanie Villumsen Serup (born 9 April 1985 in Herning) is a Danish-born road racing cyclist[2] who became a New Zealand citizen in 2009 and has ridden under a Kiwi license from 2010.[3]
Career
She won the European under 23 time trial championship in 2006 and 2007.
She was Danish national champion in both road racing and time trialing in 2006, 2008 and 2009. In 2006, Cycling World named her their Cyclist of the Year.[4]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she finished 5th in the women's road race and 13th in the time trial.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London she finished 18th in the road race and fourth in the time trial, missing out on a medal by less than two seconds.[5]
Villumsen won the Route de France Féminine in 2006 and 2013.
From 2008 to 2014 she placed 10th, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, 3rd, 2nd and 9th in world championships time trials.
From 2012 to 2014 she placed 7th, 6th and 8th in world championships road races.
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games she won the gold medal in the road time trial and placed 5th in the road race.[6][7]
In September 2014 the UnitedHealthcare Women's Team announced that they had signed Villumsen for the 2015 season after two seasons with Wiggle-Honda.[1]
In September 2015 Villumsen won the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia.[8] Afterwards, her trade team, UnitedHealthCare, almost dropped her for riding her team issue New Zealand frame instead of her normal Wilier Cento Time Trial bike.[9] The NZ teams bike, with its altered geometry, meant she could get much lower.
Villumsen is the only New Zealand senior cyclist to win an individual medal at the UCI Road World Championships.
Major results
- 2005
- 2nd National Road Race Championships
- 3rd National Time Trial Championships
- 2nd New Zealand World Cup
- 2nd Damesronde van Drenthe
- 1st Alblasserdam
- 2006 – Buitenpoort-Flexpoint Team 2006 season
- 1st
U23 time trial, European Road Championships - 1st
National Time Trial Championships - 1st National Road Race Championships
- 3rd Danish National Track Championships (Individual pursuit)
- 1st Omloop der Kempen
- 2nd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden
- 1st Stage 1, Vlissingen
- 2nd L'Heure D'Or Féminine / The Ladies Golden Hour
- 1st Overall Route de France Féminine
- 2007
- 1st U23 time trial, European Road Championships
- 3rd Holland Ladies Tour
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
- 2008
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 1st Team World ranking
- 1st Stage Giro della Toscana TTT
- 2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda
- 5th Road race, Olympic Games
- 10th Time trial, Road World Championships
- 2009 – Team Columbia-HTC 2009 season
- 1st Danish National Time Trial Championships
- 1st Danish National Road Race Championships
- 3rd
Time trial, Road World Championships - 1st Overall, Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Trofeo Costa Etrusca: GP Comuni Santa Luce — Castellina Marittima
- 2010 – Team HTC-Columbia 2010 season
- 3rd Time trial, Road World Championships
- 2nd
Time trial, Commonwealth Games - 2nd Chrono Gatineau
- 2012
- 1st Overall, Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol
- 3rd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 3rd GP Stad Roeselare
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Emakumeen Bira
- 4th Time trial, Olympic Games
- Road World Championships
- 2nd Team time trial
- 3rd Time trial
- 7th Road race
- 2nd
- 2013 – Wiggle Honda 2013 season
- 1st
National Time Trial Championships - 1st
Combativity award Stage 1 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen - 1st
Overall La Route de France
- 1st Stage 7
- 8th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Combination classification
- 1st Prologue
- 1st
- Road World Championships
- 2nd Time trial[12]
- 6th Road race
- 2nd
- 2014 – Wiggle Honda 2014 season
- 1st
Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 1st
Time trial, Commonwealth Games - 2nd National Time Trial Championships
- 2nd National Road Race Championships
- 8th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- Road World Championships
- 8th Road race
- 9th Time trial
- 2015
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 1st
Time trial, Road World Championships
References
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- 1 2 "Villumsen signs with Unitedhealthcare". cyclingnews.com. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ↑ "Athlete Biography - SERUP Linda Melanie Villumsen". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 2008-09-16.
- ↑ "Villumsen cleared to ride for New Zealand". cyclingnews.com. 30 December 2009.
- ↑ "Glasgow 2014 - Linda Villumsen Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ↑ Cleaver, Dylan (2 August 2012). "Olympics: Villumsen just seconds from bronze". The New Zealand Herald.
- ↑ "Glasgow 2014 - Women's Individual Time Trial". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ↑ "Glasgow 2014 - Women's Road Race". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ↑ "Linda Villumsen claims time trial world title". The New Zealand Herald. Associated Press. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ↑ "Villumsen at the heart of a storm after riding non-trade team bike to Worlds success | Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ↑ Linda Villumsen profile at Cycling Archives
- ↑ Linda Villumsen profile at cqranking.com
- ↑ "Kiwi cyclist wins medal at world champs". TVNZ. 25 September 2013.
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Preceded by Madeleine Sandig (GER) |
European Road Champion Time Trial U23 2006–2007 |
Succeeded by Ellen van Dijk (NED) |
| Preceded by Lisa Brennauer (GER) |
Road Cycling World Champion (time trial) 2013–2015 |
Incumbent |
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