Linda Villumsen
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Linda Melanie Villumsen Serup (born 9 April 1985 in Herning) is a Danish-born road racing cyclist[5] who became a New Zealand citizen in 2009 and has ridden under a Kiwi licence from 2010.[6]
Career
She won the European under 23 time trial championship in 2006 and 2007.
She was Danish national champion in both road racing and time trialing in 2006, 2008 and 2009. In 2006, Cycling World named her their Cyclist of the Year.[7]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she finished 5th in the women's road race and 13th in the time trial.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London she finished 18th in the road race and fourth in the time trial, missing out on a medal by less than two seconds.[8]
Villumsen won the Route de France Féminine in 2006 and 2013.
From 2008 to 2014 she placed 10th, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, 3rd, 2nd and 9th in world championships time trials.
From 2012 to 2014 she placed 7th, 6th and 8th in world championships road races.
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games she won the gold medal in the road time trial and placed 5th in the road race.[9][10]
In September 2014 the UnitedHealthcare Women's Team announced that they had signed Villumsen for the 2015 season after two seasons with Wiggle-Honda.[1]
In September 2015 Villumsen won the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia.[11] Afterwards, her trade team, UnitedHealthCare, almost dropped her for riding her team issue New Zealand frame instead of her normal Wilier Cento Time Trial bike.[12] The NZ teams bike, with its altered geometry, meant she could get much lower.
Villumsen is the only New Zealand senior cyclist to win an individual medal at the UCI Road World Championships. Villumsen's long term partner is retired English cyclist Emma Trott, who in turn is the elder sister to Olympic Gold medallist Laura Trott.[13]
Major results
- 2005
- 1st Alblasserdam
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road Race
- 3rd Time Trial
- 2nd New Zealand World Cup
- 2nd Damesronde van Drenthe
- 2006
- 1st
- National Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Omloop der Kempen
- 2nd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd L'Heure D'Or Féminine
- 3rd National Track Championships (Individual pursuit)
- 2007
- 1st
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
- 3rd Holland Ladies Tour
- 2008
- National Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Team World ranking
- 1st (TTT) Giro della Toscana
- 2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda
- 5th Road race, Olympic Games
- 10th Time trial, Road World Championships
- 2009
- National Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Trofeo Costa Etrusca – GP Comuni Santa Luce — Castellina Marittima
- 3rd
- 2010
- 2nd
- 2nd Chrono Gatineau
- 3rd
- 2012
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Emakumeen Bira
- UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd
- 3rd
- 2nd
- 3rd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 3rd GP Stad Roeselare
- 4th Time Trial, Olympic Games
- 7th Road race
- 2013
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stage 7
- 1st
- Road World Championships
- 2nd
- 6th Road Race
- 2nd
- 8th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Prologue
- 1st
- 2014
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time Trial
- 2nd Road Race
- 8th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- Road World Championships
- 8th Road Race
- 9th Time Trial
- 2015
- 1st
- 1st
- 2016
- 1st Prologue Joe Martin Stage Race
- 1st Le Race
- 2nd Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
- 5th Overall Tour of the Gila
- 6th Time Trial, Olympic Games
- 2017
- Road World Championships
- 5th Time Trial
- 6th Team Time Trial
- 5th Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
- 6th Crescent Vårgårda TTT
- 2018
- 2nd Time Trial, Commonwealth Games
- 10th Overall Womens Herald Sun Tour
References
- 1 2 "Villumsen signs with Unitedhealthcare". cyclingnews.com. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ↑ Wright, Ed (9 February 2017). "Vllumsen headlines F A S T Cycling Team". Roadcycling.co.nz.
- ↑ "Villumsen signs with Team VeloConcept". Cyclingnews.com. 8 June 2017.
- ↑ "Team VIRTU Cycling Women and Linda Villumsen part ways". Team Virtu Cycling. 8 May 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- ↑ "Athlete Biography - SERUP Linda Melanie Villumsen". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 2008-09-16.
- ↑ "Villumsen cleared to ride for New Zealand". cyclingnews.com. 30 December 2009.
- ↑ "Glasgow 2014 - Linda Villumsen Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ↑ Cleaver, Dylan (2 August 2012). "Olympics: Villumsen just seconds from bronze". The New Zealand Herald.
- ↑ "Glasgow 2014 - Women's Individual Time Trial". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ↑ "Glasgow 2014 - Women's Road Race". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ↑ "Linda Villumsen claims time trial world title". The New Zealand Herald. Associated Press. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- ↑ "Villumsen at the heart of a storm after riding non-trade team bike to Worlds success | Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ↑ "Rio 2016 Olympics: Partner of Kiwi cyclist Linda Villumsen dragged into sibling controversy with Laura Trott". The New Zealand Herald. 18 August 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ↑ "Kiwi cyclist wins medal at world champs". TVNZ. 25 September 2013.
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European Road Champion Time Trial U23 2006–2007 |
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Road Cycling World Champion (time trial) 2015 |
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