Anna van der Breggen
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Anna van der Breggen (born 18 April 1990) is a Dutch racing cyclist.[1] While participating in the Team Time Trial at the 2014 Road World Championships in Ponferrada, Spain, van der Breggen broke her pelvis in a crash sustained by her Rabo Liv team.[2] However, she recovered to win her first race of 2015, the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. In 2015, she won a bronze medal in the Road Race at the inaugural European Games, and was awarded won the Gerrit Schulte Trophy for the best Dutch of cyclist of the year.[3] She won gold in the women's road race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.[4]
Career
Sengers Ladies Cycling Team
2012
She turned professional in 2012 with the Sengers Ladies Cycling Team. In July, she won three of the four stages of women's Tour de Bretagne. She eventually won the overall classification, with a lead of almost three minutes. Van der Breggen also took victory in the time trial at the Tour Féminin en Limousin as well as the gold medal at the European cycling championships. As a result, she was selected for the 2012 UCI Road World Championships, whilst playing a domestique role for team leader, Marianne Vos, managed to finish fifth.
2013
Van der Breggen had a low key 2013 season, with the highlight of the season being a fourth-place finish at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio. She was, however, selected to compete in the 2013 UCI Road World Championships where she finished fourth. In preparation for the 2014 season, she announced she would be joining the Dutch Rabobank–Liv Giant team.
Rabo–Liv
2014 – Stage racing success
Van der Breggens first season with the Dutch Rabo outfit proved to be highly fruitful, as well as outlining her stage racing potential. Van der Breggen scored multiple stage victories throughout the season, with notable wins coming from the overall classification at the Ladies Tour of Norway and Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs, as well as a runners up spot at the Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour and a third-place finish at the most prestigious race of all in the women's calendar, the Giro d'Italia Femminile.
2015 – Giro d'Italia victor
Van der Breggen has a career best campaign throughout the 2015 season. In first spring classic of the season - Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - van der Breggen managed to escape the leading group of riders as they headed onto the Molenberg along with Ellen van Dijk. The duo remained together for the last thirty kilometers with van der Breggen taking the sprint victory. The following week, she participated in Le Samyn des Dames, getting into the breakaway on the final lap with Emma Johansson and Chloe Hosking. Van der Breggen went on to record victories at La Flèche Wallonne Féminine and La Course by Le Tour de France as well as taking numerous podium positions at top one day races . Van der Breggen highlighted her stage race potential once again, by taking the overall classification at the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs carrying the jersey from the prologue to the end of the race.[5] Van der Breggens greatest victory came by securing the maglia rosa at the Giro d'Italia Femminile the most important race in the women's calendar and the only female Grand Tour.
2016 – Olympic champion
The 2016 season began under similar conditions as the previous one, Van der Breggen successfully defended her title at La Flèche Wallonne Féminine taking a second successive victory. Van der Breggen was part of a breakaway of seven riders in the final 10 km.
In July van der Breggen confirmed she would leave Rabo–Liv to join Boels–Dolmans for the 2017 season onwards.[6]
On 7 August van der Breggen won gold in the women's road race in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. This was after her teammate, Annemiek van Vleuten, who had been in the lead earlier, crashed on the way down from Vista Chinesa and had to be hospitalised.[4] Following her Olympic victory she was made a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.[7]
Boels–Dolmans Cycling Team
2017 – Ardennes classics domination
In early 2017, van der Breggen became the first woman to win all three of the Ardennes classics in a single year. She dominated the Ardennes classics, winning her third straight La Flèche Wallonne Féminine[8][9] as well as the first edition (fourth overall) of the new-look Amstel Gold Race. The following Sunday van der Breggen emerged triumphant at the first ever Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes.[10]
Major results
- 2012
- 1st
Time trial, UEC European Road Championships - 1st
Overall Tour de Bretagne
- 1st
Points classification - 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stages 1, 2 (ITT) & 4
- 1st
- Tour Féminin en Limousin
- 1st Youth classification
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Trophee d'Or Feminin
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 2013
- 2nd Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
- 3rd GP de Plouay
- 2014
- 1st Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 1st Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
- 2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda
- 2nd Overall Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Stages 2 (TTT) & 4
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Giro Rosa
- 2015
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 1st
Overall Giro Rosa
- 1st Stage 8
- 1st Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
- 1st Prologue
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 1st La Course by Le Tour de France
- 1st Open de Suède Vårgårda
- Energiewacht Tour
- 1st Combativity classification
- 1st Prologue & Stage 4
- 1st
- UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd
Road race - 2nd Time trial
- 3rd
Team time trial
- 2nd
- 2nd Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup
- 2nd Le Samyn des Dames
- 3rd Overall Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 3rd Tour of Flanders for Women
- 2016
- Olympic Games
- 1st
Road race - 3rd
Time trial
- 1st
- UEC European Road Championships
- 1st
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Road race - 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Omloop van de IJsseldelta
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 3rd Overall Giro Rosa
- 3rd Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
- 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda
- 2017
- 1st Overall Giro Rosa
- 1st Overall Tour of California
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes
- 2nd Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
- UEC European Road Championships
- 3rd Time Trial
- 3rd
Results timelines
| Grand Tour results timeline | |||||||||
| Stage race | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giro d'Italia Femminile | DNF | 43 | 89 | — | — | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Stage race results timeline | |||||||||
| Stage race | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs | — | — | — | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | — |
| Tour of California | Did not exist | — | — | 1 | |||||
| Emakumeen Euskal Bira | — | 40 | — | — | 4 | 3 | 8 | — | — |
| Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol | — | — | 97 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| The Women's Tour | Did not exist | — | — | DNF | 12 | ||||
| Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen | 49 | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | |
| Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour | Did not exist | — | 2 | 3 | — | ||||
| Ladies Tour of Norway | Did not exist | 1 | 5 | — | |||||
| Boels Rental Ladies Tour | — | — | — | 7 | 7 | — | — | 7 | |
| Classics results timeline | |||||||||
| Classic | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Strade Bianche | Did not exist | 5 | 5 | — | |||||
| Ronde van Drenthe | 61 | — | — | 49 | 11 | 2 | 22 | 4 | 15 |
| Gent–Wevelgem | Did not exist | — | — | — | — | 17 | 43 | ||
| Trofeo Alfredo Binda | — | — | — | 21 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 6 | DNF |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 15 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | — | — | — | 8 | 16 | 1 | 14 | — |
| Amstel Gold Race | Did not exist | 1 | |||||||
| La Flèche Wallonne | 67 | — | — | 12 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Did not exist | 1 | |||||||
| GP de Plouay | — | — | 60 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | — | |
| Open de Suède Vårgårda | — | — | 62 | — | 5 | 12 | 5 | — | |
- – = Did not start
- DNF = Did not finish
See also
References
- ↑ "Anna van der Breggen". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ↑ "Disaster befalls Marianne Vos's Rabo-Liv as Specialized-Lululemon seal hat-trick of world time trial titles". Telegraph.co.uk. 21 September 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ↑ Clarke, Stuart (1 December 2015). "Tom Dumoulin named Dutch Cyclist of the Year". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. UK. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- 1 2 Wynn, Nigel (7 August 2016). "Anna van der Breggen wins Rio 2016 Olympics women's road race; Lizzie Armitstead fifth". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
- ↑ "Van Der Breggen wins prologue at Elsy Jacobs". cyclingnews.com. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ↑ "Boels-Dolmans announce Anna van der Breggen signing - Cyclingnews.com". Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ↑ "Van der Breggen and Ligtlee given royal honours - News shorts". cyclingnews.com. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- ↑ "Anna van der Breggen pulls a hat trick at Flèche Wallonne - CyclingTips". 19 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ↑ "Lizzie Deignan second to Anna van der Breggen in La Fleche Wallonne". 19 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ "Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes". Retrieved 23 April 2017.
External links
- Anna van der Breggen at Cycling Archives
- Anna van der Breggen at ProCyclingStats
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