Laurine van Riessen
 Van Riessen in 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
10 August 1987 Leiden, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport |
Speed skating Track cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Laurine van Riessen (born 10 August 1987) is a long track speed skater and cyclist. She competed for the Netherlands at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in the 500, 1000, and 1500 metres and won the bronze medal in the 1000 metres.[1] In 2015, she switched to track cycling and won a bronze medal in the team sprint at the 2015 UEC European Track Championships in Grenchen, Switzerland.
Van Riessen competed for the Netherlands in track cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2] In 2017, she will ride for the British team Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling. [3]
Major results
- 2015
- National Track Championships
- 1st
500m time trial - 1st Individual sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 1st
- US Grand Prix of Sprinting
- 1st 500m time trial
- 2nd Individual sprint
- Independence Day Grand Prix
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 3rd 500m Time Trial
- Grand Prix of Colorado Springs
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Team Sprint (with Yesna Rijkhoff)
- Vic Williams Memorial Grand Prix
- 1st 500m time trial
- 2nd Individual sprint
- 2nd Keirin, Internationale Radsport Meeting
- 3rd European Track Championships (Team sprint)
- 2016
- Milton International Challenge
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- 1st 500m Time Trial
- National Track Championships
- 1st Individual sprint
- 3rd Keirin
- 1st
- Apeldoorn Track Championships
- 2nd Team sprint
- 3rd Individual sprint
- 3rd Grenchen Track Cycling Challenge (Individual sprint)
- 3rd Sprint, Dudenhofen
- 3rd Sprint, Öschelbronn
- 2017
- Belgian International Track Meeting
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- Internationaal Baan Sprint Keirin Toernooi
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- Dublin International
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 3rd Keirin, Six Days of Rotterdam
- 3rd Sprint, Öschelbronn
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