Jaime Nielsen (born 3 September 1985) is a New Zealand track and road cyclist, and a former representative rower.
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| Birth name | Jaime Nielsen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 September 1985[1] Hamilton, New Zealand[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2015–2016 | BePink–La Classica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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One-day races and Classics
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| Club | Waikato Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
editFrom 2003 to 2007, Nielsen competed with the national rowing team. She became world champion at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Poznań, Poland, in 2004 with the U23 women's quadruple sculls with fellow members Bess Halley, Darnelle Timbs and Fiona Paterson.[2]
Despite only taking up cycling in 2007, at the team pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships she won silver in 2009 and bronze in 2011.[3]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's team pursuit for the New Zealand team which placed 5th and set a national record of 3:18.514. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she finished 4th in the Women's team pursuit. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she finished eighth, in Women's team pursuit.[4]
Nielsen won the New Zealand National Time Trial Championships three times and was second five times.[5][6] In 2017 she broke the sea level world record for the one-hour ride in Cambridge. She clocked 47.791kms in the hour which was 909m more than the previous world's best at sea level.[7]
Major results
editTrack
edit- 2009
- 2nd
Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships - 2010
- 3rd
Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Melbourne - 2011
- 2nd Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester
- UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 3rd Team pursuit
- 4th Individual pursuit
- 3rd
- 2013
- 1st
Individual pursuit, National Track Championships - 2nd Omnium, Invercargill
- 2014
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit (with Lauren Ellis, Racquel Sheath and Georgia Williams) - 3rd
Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 3rd Points race, BikeNZ Cup
- 2015
- 1st Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
- 2016
- 1st Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
- 2nd
Individual pursuit, Oceania Track Championships
Road
edit- 2011
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2012
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2013
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2014
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 4th Time trial, Commonwealth Games
- 2015
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd Ljubljana–Domžale–Ljubljana TT
- 9th Chrono Champenois
- 10th Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol
- 2016
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2017
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2021
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
References
edit- ^ a b "Jaime Nielsen". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ "(BW4x) U23 Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 – Jaime Nielsen Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Archived from the original on 25 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Cycling Track NIELSEN Jaime - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". olympics.com. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ Jaime Nielsen cyclingarchives.com
- ^ Jaime Nielsen procyclingstats.com
- ^ "Nielsen successful in record ride". Radio New Zealand. 21 July 2017.
External links
edit- Jaime Nielsen at UCI
- Jaime Nielsen at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Jaime Nielsen at ProCyclingStats
- Jaime Nielsen at Cycling Quotient
- Jaime Nielsen at World Rowing
