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  Leontien van Moorsel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leontien van Moorsel (born March 22, 1970, Boekel) is a Dutch cyclist.
Van Moorsel started her professional career in the late 1980s, and soon was one of the best cyclists in the world.
Van Moorsel was chosen as Dutch Sportswoman of the year in 1990, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leontien_van_Moorsel   (338 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Cycling - Van Moorsel wins elite cycling time trial - Thursday October 14, 1999 08:11 PM
Van Moorsel, who stayed away from cycling from 1994-95 with health problems, confirmed her status as one of the sport's greats by covering the relatively flat road course of 25.85 kilometers (16 miles) through and around cloud-covered Treviso in 32 minutes, 31.87 seconds.
But Wilson, a Commonwealth Games champion, handled the tight turns in the race's middle portion smoothly, and van Moorsel had to bear down in the closing stretch to add this title to last year's triumph, her 1991 and 1993 road race championships, and a track pursuit crown from 1990.
Van Moorsel could add yet another world championship to her impressive resume in Saturday's 97.5-kilometer (60.45-mile) road race at Verona, and she said she will inspect that route Wednesday.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cycling/news/1999/10/05/worlds_ap   (600 words)

  
 www.cyclingnews.com interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Leontien was tired both physically and mentally — it became the lowest point in her life.
Van Kasteren is owner of VKS and became the sponsor.
Instead, van Moorsel possesses enormous versatility; she can win on the track and is the current holder of the world record for the 3KM individual pursuit set in Sydney last year.
www.cyclingnews.co.nz /interviews/leontien01.shtml   (1821 words)

  
 Zijlaard-Van Moorsel fends off strong pursuit from Aussie newcomer
Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel wasn't sure what to think when she lined up against Katie Mactier to successfully defend her title in the women's individual pursuit final at the world track cycling championships on Friday.
Van Moorsel said that while she was concerned by Mactier's performance in qualifiers and the semi's, once on the track she could only follow her own plan and ignore the rider on the other side of the track.
Van Moorsel has already set aside time in October to attempt an assault on Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli's mark of 45.094km, but she adds, too, that she may have to better her own world pursuit mark of 3:31.816 to fend off an Olympic charge from Mactier.
www.velonews.com /race/trk/articles/4762.0.html   (654 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Cycling - Van Moorsel wins women's time trial; Longo fails - Wednesday October 07, 1998 03:16 PM
Van Moorsel weighed in at 43 kilograms in her early racing days.
But her weight ballooned and a fretting van Moorsel was forced to go to a special clinic to reduce her 80 kilograms.
Van Moorsel who is now down to 59 kilograms, was surprised by her own showing.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cycling/news/1998/10/07/worlds_wrap   (440 words)

  
 Champion plans a golden farewell - Athens2004 - www.theage.com.au
Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel, the Dutch queen of world cycling, is planning a golden flourish for her farewell to track and road cycling at the Athens Olympics this year.
Zijlaard-Van Moorsel, an eight-time world champion on the track and road in a career spanning 14 years, is in Melbourne for the world track cycling championships - which begin on Wednesday at Vodafone Arena - to qualify for the 3000-metre individual pursuit in Athens.
Zijlaard-Van Moorsel was not perturbed by the recent efforts of rivals who are closing in on her pursuit world record of three minutes 30.816 seconds.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/05/23/1085250870339.html   (444 words)

  
 OCRC: Ster van Zeeland 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Leontien van Moorsel (Farm Frites-Hartol) @ 33 sec 3.
Best of the UK riders was Ceris Gilfillan, 4th, but she was still put in the shade by Leontien Van Moorsel, who managed to put almost a whole minute into the rest of the field at an average speed of 45.3km/h.
Leontien van Moorsel took the first prime (ably assisted by a couple of her team mates) and I was only able to spot Sue Carter and Frances Newstead in the front group of about 20 riders.
www.oxfordcityrc.fsnet.co.uk /roadracing/svzeel01.htm   (1129 words)

  
 PSV - VDH Sports Personality of 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Van den Hoogenband retained his title in the 100 metres free style, claimed a silver medal in the 200 metres free style and helped his country to a silver medal in the 4 x 100 free style relay at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004.
Van den Hoogenband did not fail to emphatically involve the other nominees in his triumph.
Van Weeghel also won a silver medal in the 200 metres and he collected a bronze medal in the 100 meter in Athens.
english.psv.nl /show?id=21372&contentid=7952   (394 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
Leontien van Moorsel was a world champion cyclist both on the road and on the track before she competed in her first Olympics in 1992.
Van Moorsel won the 1993 road race world championship, but then missed the next three seasons, including the Atlanta Olympics, while she dealt with anorexia and bulimia, as her weight fluctuated between 43 and 86kg.
She wanted to retire on a high note, but it looked like her efforts would be thwarted when she crashed in the road race, coming away with bruises to her neck, hip and shoulder.
www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?heros=132925   (260 words)

  
 azcentral.com sports | Summer Olympics: American wins silver in cycling time trial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel of the Netherlands, who suffered hip and shoulder injuries in a fall late in Sunday's road race, successfully defended her gold medal by covering the 14.9-mile course in 31 minutes, 11.53 seconds.
Only van Moorsel, the best women's cyclist in the world, was up to Barry's challenge.
Doctors originally thought van Moorsel's Olympic quest - she won three golds in Sydney and sought to defend all three in Athens - ended in the Sunday crash where she clipped the wheel of another rider and fell hard to the pavement.
azcentral.com /sports/azetc/04olympics/0818OlyRoadTimeTrials18-ON.html   (664 words)

  
 UCI- Union Cycliste Internationale- Track World Championships- 1998 / Championnats du Monde- Piste- 1998
Zijlaard-Van Moorsel knew from the beginning of the final that her task would be a formidable one.
Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel (NED) was forced to pull out all the stops to beat Judith Arndt (GER).
After opening a half second gap in the opening 750m, she then had to fight as Arndt went 0.3 of a second ahead in the mid part of the race.
www.uci.ch /english/track/worlds_mondiale/wchamps_98/worlds_98_friP.htm   (1057 words)

  
 Koga-Miyata - The Quality People In Cycling
Leontien van Moorsel of the Netherlands won Gold on a Koga in the women's time trial road race.
Van Moorsel, age 34, then went on to win Bronze in the individual pursuit track event.
Van Moorsel turned pro in 1989, and soon was winning major races, both on the track and the road.
usa.koga.com /news.asp?category=1&id=1000   (377 words)

  
 edr: got media?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In the same week as Doctor Mégret made his claims on the prevalence of eating disorders within cycling, Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel, having suffered from anorexia earlier in her career, announced that she is opening a halfway house for eating disorder sufferers.
In 1992 and 1993, Van Moorsel won the challenging women's Tour de France as well as becoming world champion in 1993, however at the end of 1993, she began to suffer health problems as a result of being too thin and was forced to retire from the sport at the peak of her success.
Van Moorsel has since come back from that challenging time in her life and proved that she can still be at the best in the sport without putting her body through that strain again, and is now actively helping other young people avoid the mistakes she made.
www.eatingdisorderresources.com /2003/12/articles-from-google-news-dec-11.htm   (2045 words)

  
 Van Moorsel back from crash for gold - Cycling -
Three days after a horrific crash in the women's road race, Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel of the Netherlands came back to win her first gold of the Athens Games in the road time trial today, easily defending her title in her favourite event.
Zijlaard-Van Moorsel is among the favourites to win a second gold in the track individual pursuit over the weekend, the last Olympic race for the 34-year old.
Her silver helmet shimmering in the sun blazing the Saronic Gulf, the one-hour world record holder never wavered on the long stretches, but was careful in bends to avoid another crash.
www.smh.com.au /olympics/articles/2004/08/18/1092765015180.html   (222 words)

  
 UCI- Union Cycliste Internationale- Road World's -1998
Leontien Ziljaard-Van Moorsel had retired in 1994 but made a successful comeback this year, making the track world championships her warm-up to this competition.
During an nail-biting time trial, Ziljaard-Van Moorsel was the fastest at the first time split after 8.4km but then had gone a second behind Zabirova at the second split at 15.6km.
After being world road race champion in 1991 and 1993, Van Moorsel, as her name was then, retired from competition for two years.
www.uci.ch /english/road/worlds_mondiale/worlds_98/981007.htm   (920 words)

  
 Articles - 2000 Summer Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel set a world record in the semi-finals the same event for women.
Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband had broken the world record in the semi-finals, taking it from the new Australian hero Ian Thorpe, who came close to the world record in his semi-final heat.
Zijlaard-van Moorsel lived up to the expectations set by her world record in cycling in the semis by winning the gold medal.
www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/2000_Summer_Olympics   (2271 words)

  
 Non Tibi Spiro: August 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Yesterday, swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband aka 'Hoogie' or 'The Flying Dutchman' or 'The Dutch Dolphin' won the 100 meter freestyle race in 48.17 seconds to clinch his fourth olympic gold medal.
Both he and Leontien van Moorsel have now managed to win as many gold medals for Holland at the Summer Olympics as the legendary "athlete of the century" Fanny-Blankers Koen, who passed away on the 25th of January 2004 at the age of 85, and military rider Charles Ferdinand Pahud de Mortanges.
Leontien is also a strong medal favourite for the olympic track race, but as we saw on that doomed Sunday, anything can happen during the Games.
non-tibi-spiro.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_non-tibi-spiro_archive.html   (2508 words)

  
 Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Swimming (Men's 100 m freestyle): Pieter van den Hoogenband
Annemarie Kramer, Pascal van Assendelft, Jacqueline Poelman, and Joan van den Akker - Round 1, DNF
Because only three horse and rider pairs from each nation could advance to the final rounds in the individual jumping event, Gerco Schroder received a final rank below all riders that did advance despite being placed more highly after the qualifying rounds.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Netherlands_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics   (696 words)

  
 British Cycling
Phoning me from Holland was the Womens GB Team Manager, Dave Mellor, full of praise for her and the teams performance in an event dominated by the triple Olympic champion Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel and the Dutch National team.
It was a roller coaster ride for Newstead who has spent a lot of time racing in Holland but her strong performances did not go down well with the Dutch National team and she was 'worked over' on the final stage dropping from 2nd overall to 3rd by a handful of seconds.
The first stage went okay for the team with Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel clipping off and winning it with Sara Waller in 19th the leading GB rider.
www.bcf.uk.com /news/2002/international/06_stevanwalcheren.html   (424 words)

  
 Zijlaard-Van Moorsel sets new hour record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Olympic and world champion Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel established a new world women's hour record at the Olympic velodrome in Mexico City on Wednesday, covering 46.065km in an hour, surpassing the earlier record of 45.094km set by Jeannie Longo on the same track in December of 2000.
The 33-year-old Dutchwoman, who is fresh from defending her individual pursuit title at the world track championships in Stuttgart in August, made the attempt on the 333.33-meter track at Mexico's Olympic Center at altitude and cool temperatures.
Zijlaard-Van Moorsel had tried to beat Longo's record in September of last year at the reputedly-fast track in Manchester, England but failed in her attempt with a distance of 43.475km.
www.velonews.com /news/fea/5054.0.html   (442 words)

  
 .:. procycling .:.
Leontien Van Moorsel is determined her last top level appearance won't be Sunday's disastrous road race, but a successful defence of her TT title.
Van Moorsel, riding her last Olympics, left the race route in the back of an ambulance but recovered sufficiently to return to the Olympic village for the night.
But Van Moorsel — headache or no headache — had some harsh words for silver medallist Judith Arndt, after images of the German gesturing obscenely towards race winner Sara Carrigan, of Australia, were beamed around the world.
www.procycling.com /news.aspx?ID=438   (465 words)

  
 www.cyclingnews.com presents the World Track Championships 2003
Her time was just outside Olympic champion Zijlaard-Van Moorsel's world record of 3:30.16 and faster than the Dutchwoman's first round time of 3:31.736 as the pair set up a duel for the gold medal.
While Zijlaard-Van Moorsel claimed her fourth world title for the event, she was aware she would need to improve to stay in front of Mactier.
A delay meant she was going to still be in Australia during the national titles and so she entered the individual pursuit and won, earning an automatic start at the worlds as the Oceania champion.
www.cyclingnews.com /track/2003/WTC03?id=ipwom   (834 words)

  
 Official Site of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games: Athletes
After accomplishing her first back-to-back in 1992 and 1993, she spent two years in retirement with health problems and three more climbing back to the top.
Van Moorsel actually won her first world title on the track, in a 1990 pursuit race.
When van Moorsel returned to the top in the time trial in 1998, she narrowly missed matching Longo-Ciprelli's 1995 double victory at the World Championships by finishing second in the road race.
pandora.nla.gov.au /parchive/2000/olympics/O2000-Sep-17/www.olympics.com/eng/athletes/aotd/CR_vanMoorsel.html   (224 words)

  
 Bell Helmets - Press Releases
Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel of the Netherlands won the women’s competition giving Bell Riders a golden sweep in the event.
It was Zijlaard-van Moorsel’s third gold medal; she won gold in both the road race and time trial at the Sydney Games in 2000.
In an event where aerodynamics are crucial, Hamilton, Zijlaard-van Moorsel and Julich all wore the new Bell Meteor II time trial helmet.
www.bellbikehelmets.com /press_release.asp?article=aug_18_04.html   (120 words)

  
 Leontien van Moorsel - TheBestLinks.com - Cycling, March 22, Netherlands, Sydney, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Leontien van Moorsel - TheBestLinks.com - Cycling, March 22, Netherlands, Sydney,...
Leontien van Moorsel, Cycling, March 22, Netherlands, Sydney, Track cycling...
She currently competes under her married name, Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel.
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