Swedish cross-country mountainbike rider (born 1994)
Jenny Rissveds
Rissveds in 2016
Personal information
Full name
Jenny Rissveds
Born
(1994-06-06) 6 June 1994 (age 30) Falun, Sweden
Height
1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight
55 kg (121 lb)
Team information
Current team
Team 31
Discipline
Mountain bike racing
Role
Rider
Rider type
Cross-country
Major wins
Cyclo-cross
National Championships (2016, 2017)
Mountain bike
Olympic Games XC (2016)
National XC Championships (2013–2016, 2019–2022)
XC World Cup
2 individual wins (2019, 2024)
Road
One-day races and Classics
National Road Race Championships (2022)
National Time Trial Championships (2023)
Medal record
Women's mountain bike racing
Representing Sweden
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Cross-country
European Championships
2013 Bern
Eliminator
World Under-23 Championships
2016 Nové Město
Cross-country
2015 Vallnord
Cross-country
European Under-23 Championships
2013 Bern
Cross-country
2016 Huskvarna
Cross-country
European Junior Championships
2012 Moscow
Cross-country
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]
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]
^"The inspirational journey of MTB Olympic champion Jenny Rissveds". 27 June 2023.
^"Svenskt VM–guld i mountainbike". Aftonbladet. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
^"Olympics Rio 2016: Sweden's Jenny Rissveds wins gold in women's cross-country". Eurosport. 20 August 2016. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
^"Crown Princess Victoria 40th birthday celebration". European Pressphoto Agency. 14 July 2017. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
^Theo Bylund (11 August 2019). "Rissveds tog sin första seger sen comebacken" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Archived from the original on 11 August 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
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