Anna Van der Breggen

Anna van der Breggen

Anna van der Breggen after winning the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Anna van der Breggen
Born	(1990-04-18) 18 April 1990 (age 26) Zwolle, Netherlands
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Team information
Current team	Boels–Dolmans
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2009	Team Flexpoint
2012–2013	Sengers Ladies
2014–2016	Rabo–Liv
2017–	Boels–Dolmans
Major wins
UCI Women's World Cup La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (2015) UCI Women's World Tour La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (2016) Stage races & Grand Tours Giro d'Italia Femminile (2015) Tour de Bretagne (2012) Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs (2014, 2015) Ladies Tour of Norway (2014) One day races Olympic Games Road Race (2016) European Road Race Trial (2016) European Time Trial championships (2012) Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2015) La Course by Le Tour de France (2015) National Time Trial Champion (2015)
Medal record Road bicycle racing Representing the  Netherlands Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Road race 2016 Rio de Janeiro Time trial World Championships 2015 Richmond Time trial 2015 Richmond Road Race European Games 2015 Baku Road Race Representing Rabo–Liv World Championships 2015 Richmond Team Time trial

UCI Women's World Cup

UCI Women's World Tour

Stage races & Grand Tours

One day races

Anna van der Breggen (born 18 April 1990) is a Dutch racing cyclist. 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. 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. She won gold in the women's road race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

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.

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.