Adrie Visser
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Adriana ("Adrie") Visser (born 19 October 1983 in Hoorn) is a former Dutch track and road racer who lives in Wieringerwerf.[1]
Visser started her professional career in 2001, when she finished second at the Dutch road race championship. She came fifth in the time trial. In track cycling she won her first national titles, becoming Dutch champion in the 500m time trial and sprint. She also won a silver medal in the points race. At the world championships in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania, USA, she was seventh in the 500m time trial and eighth in the sprint and individual pursuit.
She won a bronze medal at the 2003
Back on the track that year she won another three national titles (points, individual pursuit and scratch). She also took part in the 2004 Summer Olympics participating in the points race and finishing 11th.
At the world championships in Manchester, England, in 2005, she finished fourth in the scratch event. She was fifth in the points race and seventh in the pursuit. In June on the road she won the Omloop Middag-Humsterland, Profronde van Stiphout and a race in Dalen. These brought her into the national team for the world road championship for the first time, finishing 84th in Madrid. She won her second World Cup track event in Manchester where she won the scratch again before defending her three national Dutch titles.
2006 started well when in January she won Egmond-Pier-Egmond. In March she won the road race in Oud Vossemeer. She finished in the top 10 in both the road race and the time trial championship (7th and 9th). Between 15 July and 1 August she won four road races; (Ochten), Barendrecht, Alblasserdam and Surhuisterveen). Dutch national coach Egon van Kessel selected her for the World championship again following these results.
On 31 March 2007, Visser took the bronze medal in the scratch race at the
Palmares
Road cycling
- 2009 – DSB Bank–LTO 2009 season
- 2011 – HTC–Highroad 2011 season
1st,
- 2012 – Team Skil–Argos 2012 season
Track cycling
- 2003
- 1st, Scratch, Dutch National Track Championships
- 2004
- 1st, Scratch, Dutch National Track Championships
- 2005
- 1st, Scratch, Dutch National Track Championships
- 2006
- 1st, Scratch, 2006 Dutch National Track Championships
- 1st, Points race, 2006 Dutch National Track Championships
- 2007
- 1st, 2007 Ronde van Drenthe World Cup, (World Cup)
- 2nd, Scratch, 2007 Dutch National Track Championships
See also
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Adrie Visser". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
External links
- Adrie Visser at UCI
- Adrie Visser at Cycling Archives
- Adrie Visser at Olympics.com
- Adrie Visser at Olympedia
- Adrie Visser (website) at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 June 2004)
- Team DSB Bank at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 March 2007)
- highroadsports at the Wayback Machine (archived 23 September 2020)