Jenny Rissveds

Jenny Rissveds
Rissveds in 2016
Personal information
Full name Jenny Rissveds
Born (1994-06-06) 6 June 1994
Falun, Sweden
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 55 kg (121 lb)
Team information
Current team Scott-Odlo MTB Racing Team
Discipline Mountain bike racing
Role Rider
Rider type Cross-country

Jenny Rissveds (born 6 June 1994) is a Swedish cross-country mountainbike rider.[1] She won the gold medal in the under-23 mountainbike race at the World Championships in 2016.[2]

Born in Falun, Rissveds won the gold medal in women's cross country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[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.

In July 2017, she was awarded the Victoria Scholarship.[4]

References

  1. "Jenny Rissveds -Mountainbike". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  2. "Svenskt VM–guld i mountainbike". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  3. "Olympics Rio 2016: Sweden's Jenny Rissveds wins gold in women's cross-country". Eurosport. 20 August 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  4. "Crown Princess Victoria 40th birthday celebration". European Pressphoto Agency. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
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