Maud Kaptheijns

Maud Kaptheijns
Personal information
Born (1994-09-28) 28 September 1994
Veldhoven, Netherlands
Team information
Current team Crelan-Charles
Discipline Cyclo-cross
Role Rider
Professional team(s)
2015 AA drink
2016 Steylaerts - Verona
2017- Crelan-Charles

Maud Kaptheijns (born 28 September 1994) is a Dutch cyclo-cross cyclist. She won the gold medal in the under-23 event at the 2015 European Cyclo-cross Championships after eventual winner Femke Van den Driessche was disqualified. She also won the bronze medal in the women's under-23 event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder.[1][2] Kaptheijns took her first UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup race win when she took victory in Duinencross Koksijde in October 2017.[3]

In September 2016 she announced that Belgian cyclist Laura Verdonschot is her girlfriend.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "2016 Cyclo-croos World Championships: Entries list women's under-23" (PDF). wk2016.be. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Maud Kaptheijns". cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Decaluwé, Brecht (22 October 2017). "Cyclo-cross World Cup: Kaptheijns conquers the Koksijde sand". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Veldrittoppers outen zich als holebikoppel". HLN.be. 11 October 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
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