Leontien van Moorsel
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Van Moorsel in 1991
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| Full name | Leontien van Moorsel |
| Born | 22 March 1970 Boekel, Netherlands |
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| Discipline | Road & track |
| Role | Rider |
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Medal record
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| Infobox last updated on September 7, 2008 |
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Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970 in Boekel) is a Dutch retired racing cyclist.
Career
Van Moorsel started her career in the late 1980s. She won major races both on the track, and on the road. In the first half of the 1990s, she won the Tour Féminin twice, after fierce competition with Jeannie Longo.
Van Moorsel dropped out of cycling in 1994 with anorexia nervosa[1] but recovered to compete at the World Championships in 1998, winning the time trial and coming second in the road race.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, van Moorsel won gold medals on the road (road race and time trial), and on the track (3 km pursuit). At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she fell in the penultimate lap of the road race,[2] but successfully defended her time trial title.
Her four gold medals tie her (with four others) for the most ever by a Dutch athlete at the Olympics.[3]
She has held the world hour record for women of 46.065 km, set in 2003 in Mexico City.[4]
Van Moorsel retired from professional cycling after the 2004 Olympics.
Major results
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- 1990
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World champion 3km pursuit - ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.› World champion 50km team time trial
- 1991
- ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.› World champion road race
- 1992
- Tour Feminin
- 1993
- ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.› World champion road race
- Tour Feminin
- 1998
- ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.› World champion time trial
- 1999
- ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.› World champion time trial
- 2000
Olympic champion road race- Olympic champion time trial
- Olympic champion 3km pursuit
Olympic silver medallist points race- 2001
- ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.› World champion 3km pursuit
- 2002
- ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.› World champion 3km pursuit
- 2003
- ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.› World champion 3km pursuit
- ‹The template FlagiconUCI is being considered for deletion.› World hour record: 46.065 km
- 2004
- Ronde van Gelderland
- Olympic champion time trial
Olympic bronze medallist 3km pursuit
Personal life
Van Moorsel married former track cyclist Michael Zijlaard in October 1995.[5]
See also
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References
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External links
- (Dutch) Official site
- Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel at Cycling ArchivesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Awards
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| Preceded by | Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 1990 |
Succeeded by Ingrid Haringa |
| Preceded by | Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 1993 |
Succeeded by Anky van Grunsven |
| Preceded by | Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 1999, 2000 |
Succeeded by Inge de Bruijn |
| Preceded by | Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 2003, 2004 |
Succeeded by Edith van Dijk |
| Preceded by | Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year 1998–2000 |
Succeeded by Sissy van Alebeek |
| Preceded by | Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year 2002–2004 |
Succeeded by Elisabeth Willebroordse |
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| Preceded by | UCI women's hour record (46.065 km) 1 October 2003 – 12 September 2015 |
Succeeded by Molly Shaffer Van Houweling |
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 UCI Road World Champions – Women's time trial |
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- Dutch female cyclists
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands
- UCI Road World Champions (women)
- Track cyclists
- People from Boekel
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women)
- Dutch cycling time trial champions
- UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from North Brabant
