Annemiek van Vleuten

Annemiek van Vleuten was born in Vleuten, Netherlands, on October 8, 1982. She joined the pro cycling ranks in 2008, and her name became synonymous with her aggressive racing style, audacious solo attacks and victories across all terrain. Among the highlights of her 16-year career include the overall victory at the Tour de France Femmes, four overall titles at the Giro d'Italia Donne and three overall wins at La Vuelta. Then there are two wins at the Tour of Flanders, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Strade Bianche, the road race and the individual time trial at the World Championships as well as a gold medal in the time trial at the Olympic Games.
Van Vleuten began her professional racing career in 2008 with the Dutch team Vrienden van het Platteland. She revealed that she found a mentor in cycling during the early stages of her career in compatriot Marianne Vos. They raced on the same team beginning in 2009 through 2014 at DSB Bank-Nederland Bloeit, which later became Rabobank. She then transferred to Bigla for one season in 2015 before spending three seasons with Mitcheton-Scott (2016-2020). Her final three seasons saw her under contract with Movistar Team, an alliance that went from 2021 to the end of 2023.
Van Vleuten's performances in the one-day races have sparked some of the most dramatic moments in women's cycling. If we think back to her audacious 104km solo victory to win her first road race world title in Harrogate, victories at Tour of Flanders, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Strade Bianche. Most recently, there was her comeback from the freak crash, just three days after breaking her elbow in the World Championships team relay, with a stunning victory in the elite women's road race to win the rainbow jersey in Wollongong.
In her final season in the pro peloton, the highly-decorated Dutch rider closed out her palmares with even more hardware with GC victories at Giro d’Italia Donne, La Vuelta Femenina and the Tour of Scandinavia, and adding fourth overall at the Tour de France Femmes. Her final competitive stage race was the Simac Ladies Tour, a race where she began racing in 2007, called the Holland Ladies Tour at that time. She rode to her two Grand Tour victories wearing the rainbow jersey as the World Champion. 

Key Results

2023

🥇 Three stages, points and mountains classifications, GC at Giro d'Italia Donne

🥇 GC at La Vuelta Femenina

🥇 GC at Tour of Scandinavia

🥉 Dutch national time trial championship

Fourth GC at Tour de France Femmes

2022

🥇 Two stages and GC at Tour de France Femmes

🥇 Two stages, points classification and GC at Giro d'Italia Donne

🥇 World road race champion

🥇 One stage and GC at Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta

🥇 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes

🥇 One stage and GC at Setmana Valenciana

🥈 GC at Tour de Romandie Féminin

🥈 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine

🥈 Tour of Flanders

🥈 Strade Bianche

2021

🥇 Olympic Games individual time trial

🥇 Tour of Flanders (also 2011)

🥇 Two stages and GC at Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta

🥇 One stage and GC at Ladies Tour of Norway

🥇 One stage and GC at Setmana Valenciana

🥇 Dwars door Vlaanderen

🥈 Olympic Games road race

🥈 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes

2020

🥇 European road championship

🥇 Strade Bianche

🥇 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

🥇 One stage at Giro d'Italia Donne

🥇 European Continental Championships, road race

2019

🥇 GC at Giro d'Italia Donne

🥇 World road race champion

🥇 Dutch national time trial championshipship

🥇 Strade Bianche

🥇Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes

2018

🥇 GC at Giro d'Italia Donne

🥇 La Course by le Tour de France

🥇 GC at Boels Ladies Tour

🥇 World time trial champion

2017

🥇 La Course by le Tour de France

🥇 GC at Boels Ladies Tour

🥇 World time trial champion

🥇 Dutch national time trial championship (also 2014, 2016)