Jenny Rissveds (born 6 June 1994) is a Swedish cross-country mountainbike rider.[1] She won the gold medal in women's cross country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[2]
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| Full name | Jenny Rissveds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 June 1994 Falun, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team 31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain bike racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Cross-country | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Rissveds won the gold medal in the under-23 mountainbike race at the World Championships in 2016.[3]
In March 2017, Rissveds rode the eight-day Absa Cape Epic stage race in South Africa for the first time. Together with manager Thomas Frischknecht they won the Mixed category comfortably after covering the 641 km route.
After suffering from mental health issues, Jenny took an hiatus from competing most of the 2017 and the 2018 season.[4]
In July 2017, she was awarded the Victoria Scholarship.[5]
On 11 August 2019, she won her first world cup victory post-her 2016 Summer Olympics gold medal, when winning a World Cup competition in Lenzerheide in Switzerland.[6]
Rissveds won her second olympic medal, a bronze, at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Major results
editCyclo-cross
edit- 2015–2016
- 1st
National Championships - 1st Stockholm
- 2016–2017
- 1st National Championships
Road
edit- 2010
- 6th Overall U6 Cycle Tour
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
- 2022
- 1st Road race, National Championships
- 2nd Overall Gracia Orlová
- 1st Stage 2
- 2023
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 5th Road race
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Gracia Orlová
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 4th Overall Baloise Ladies Tour
Mountain bike
edit- 2013
- 1st National Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Downhill
- 1st Eliminator
- 1st
- 2nd
Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships - 2014
- 1st National Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Eliminator
- 1st
- DNF Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 2015
- 1st National Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Eliminator
- 1st
- 3rd
Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships - 2016
- 1st
Cross-country, Olympic Games - 1st
Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships - 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- Internazionali d'Italia Series
- 1st Milan
- 2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 2nd Albstadt
- 2017
- 1st
Overall Mixed Cape Epic (with Thomas Frischknecht) - Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Rivera
- 2019
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 3rd Val di Sole
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Snowshoe
- 3rd Lenzerheide
- 16th Cross-country, UCI World Elite Championships
- 2020
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- DNF Cross-country, UCI World Elite Championships
- 2021
- National Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Eliminator
- 1st
- 3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 2nd Leogang
- 2nd Les Gets
- 3rd Lenzerheide
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 3rd Nové Město
- 3rd Les Gets
- 3rd Snowshoe
- DNF Cross-country, UCI World Elite Championships
- 2022
- National Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Short track
- 1st
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 3rd Albstadt
- 3rd Nové Město
- Internazionali d'Italia Series
- 1st Capoliveri
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 2nd Albstadt
- 2nd Leogang
- 2nd Lenzerheide
- 2nd Snowshoe
- DNS Cross-country, UCI World Elite Championships
- 2023
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Lenzerheide
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
- DNF Cross-country, UCI World Elite Championships
- 2024
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 3rd
Cross-country, Olympic Games - 3rd Short track UCI World Elite Championships
References
edit- ^ "The inspirational journey of MTB Olympic champion Jenny Rissveds". 27 June 2023.
- ^ "Olympics Rio 2016: Sweden's Jenny Rissveds wins gold in women's cross-country". Eurosport. 20 August 2016. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "Svenskt VM–guld i mountainbike". Aftonbladet. 3 July 2016. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "Rissveds: Two years ago, I didn't want to be alive". Cyclingnews. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Crown Princess Victoria 40th birthday celebration". European Pressphoto Agency. 14 July 2017. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ Theo Bylund (11 August 2019). "Rissveds tog sin första seger sen comebacken" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Archived from the original on 11 August 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2019.