Jenny Rissveds
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]
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| Full name | Jenny Rissveds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 June 1994 Falun, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team 31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain bike racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Cross-country | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
On 11 August 2019, she won her first world cup victory post-her 2016 Summer Olympics gold medal, when winning a World Cup competition in Lenzerheide in Switzerland.[5]
References
- "Jenny Rissveds -Mountainbike". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- "Svenskt VM–guld i mountainbike". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- "Olympics Rio 2016: Sweden's Jenny Rissveds wins gold in women's cross-country". Eurosport. 20 August 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- "Crown Princess Victoria 40th birthday celebration". European Pressphoto Agency. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- Theo Bylund (11 August 2019). "Rissveds tog sin första seger sen comebacken" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
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