Linda Villumsen
Linda Melanie Villumsen Serup (born 9 April 1985) is a Danish-born road racing cyclist,[5] who last rode for UCI Women's Team Team Virtu Cycling. Villumsen became a New Zealand citizen in 2009 and has ridden under a Kiwi licence from 2010.[6]
  Villumsen wearing the Danish national team's jersey at the 2009 UCI Road World Championships (left) and riding for New Zealand in the 2012 Olympics time trial (right) | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Linda Melanie Villumsen Serup |
| Born | 9 April 1985 Herning, Denmark |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | |
| Amateur team | |
| 2017 | F A S T Cycling Team[2] |
| Professional teams | |
| 2005–2006 | Buitenpoort – Flexpoint Team |
| 2007–2010 | Team T-Mobile Women |
| 2011 | AA Drink–leontien.nl |
| 2012 | GreenEDGE–AIS |
| 2013–2014 | Wiggle–Honda |
| 2015–2016 | UnitedHealthcare |
| 2017–2018 | Team VéloCONCEPT[3][4] |
| Major wins | |
| One Day races · National Time Trial championships (2006, 2008, 2009, 2013) · National Road Race championships (2008–2009, 2015) · Commonwealth Games Time Trial championships (2014) · World Time Trial Championships (2015) Stage races · Route de France Féminine (2006, 2013) · Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen (2009) · Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol (2012) · Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche (2014) | |
Medal record
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Career
Born in Herning, Villumsen 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 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 team's 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.
Major results
- 2005
- 1st Alblasserdam
- Danish National Road Championships
- 2nd Road Race
- 3rd Time Trial
- 2nd New Zealand World Cup
- 2nd Damesronde van Drenthe
- 2006
- 1st
- Danish 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 Individual pursuit, Danish National Track Championships
- 2007
- 1st
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
- 3rd Holland Ladies Tour
- 2008
- Danish National Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st (TTT) Giro della Toscana
- 2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda
- 5th Road race, Olympic Games
- 10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2009
- Danish National Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Trofeo Costa Etrusca – GP Comuni Santa Luce — Castellina Marittima
- 3rd
- 2010
- 2nd
- 2nd Chrono Gatineau
- 3rd
- 2011
- 2nd
- 2012
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Emakumeen Bira
- UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd
- 3rd
- 7th Road race
- 2nd
- 3rd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 3rd GP Stad Roeselare
- 4th Time Trial, Olympic Games
- 2013
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stage 7
- 1st
- UCI 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)
- New Zealand National Road Championships
- 2nd Time Trial
- 2nd Road Race
- 8th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- UCI 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
- UCI 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 Women's Herald Sun Tour
References
- "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 16 September 2018.
- "Athlete Biography – SERUP Linda Melanie Villumsen". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 16 September 2008.
- "Villumsen cleared to ride for New Zealand". cyclingnews.com. 30 December 2009.
- "Glasgow 2014 – Linda Villumsen Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
- 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 14 October 2015.
- "Glasgow 2014 – Women's Road Race". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
- "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 14 October 2015.
- "Kiwi cyclist wins medal at world champs". TVNZ. 25 September 2013.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Linda Villumsen. |
- Linda Villumsen at ProCyclingStats
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European Under-23 Time Trial Champion 2006–2007 |
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UCI World Time Trial Champion 2015 |
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