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In this Dutch name, the surname is van Dijk, not Dijk.
Ellen van Dijk
Boels–Dolmans
2017–2018Team Sunweb
2019–Trek–Segafredo[3][4]
Major wins

UCI Women's World Cup

Tour of Flanders (2014)
Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT (2011, 2012, 2013)

Stage races

Ladies Tour of Qatar (2011
)
2012, 2013
)
Energiewacht Tour (2013, 2016
)
2013
)
Gracia–Orlová (2013)
Healthy Ageing Tour (2021
)

One-day races & Classics

European Road Championships (2021
)
National Time Trial Champion (2007, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2022)
Sparkassen Giro (2010
)
Omloop van Borsele (2012)
Le Samyn des Dames (2013
)
Chrono Champenois (2013
)
Medal record
Representing the  Netherlands
Women's track cycling
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Manchester Scratch
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Pruszków Under-23 scratch
Gold medal – first place 2008 Pruszków Under-23 points race
Silver medal – second place 2008 Pruszków Omnium
Silver medal – second place 2008 Pruszków Under-23 individual pursuit
Women's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Tuscany Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2021 Flanders Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2022 Wollongong Time trial
Silver medal – second place 2016 Doha Time trial
Silver medal – second place 2021 Flanders Mixed team relay
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Verona Junior road race
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Innsbruck Time trial
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Pettenasco Under-23 time trial
Gold medal – first place 2009 Hooglede-Gits Under-23 time trial
Gold medal – first place 2016 Plumelec Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2017 Herning Time trial
Gold medal – first place
2018 Glasgow
 Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2019 Alkmaar Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2021 Trentino Road race
Silver medal – second place 2020 Plouay Time trial
Silver medal – second place 2021 Trentino Time trial
Silver medal – second place 2022 Munich Time trial
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Baku Time trial
World University Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Antwerp Road race
Silver medal – second place 2006 Antwerp Time trial
Team Specialized–lululemon
Women's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Valkenburg Team time trial
Gold medal – first place 2013 Florence Team time trial
Boels–Dolmans
Women's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Doha Team time trial
Silver medal – second place 2015 Richmond Team time trial
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Innsbruck Team time trial

Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌeːleːjoːˈnoːraː maːˈrijaː ˈʔɛlə(n) vɑn ˈdɛik]; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.[5] Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time trial specialist and is five times world champion. She won her first world title on the track in the scratch race in 2008. She became Road World Champion in 2012, 2013 and 2016 with her respective trade teams in the team time trial and in 2013 also in the individual time trial. In 2015, she won the time trial at the first European Games and the silver medal in the team time trial at the world championships.

Van Dijk started as a

road race, finished eighth in the time trial and sixth in the team pursuit
.

Personal life

Van Dijk with her family and friends in 2016

Ellen van Dijk grew up in Harmelen, Utrecht together with her two older brothers along with her mother and father.[6] Besides speed skating and cycling, she also played volleyball and performed gymnastics when she was a child.[6] Van Dijk left Harmelen for her study to Amsterdam in 2006, where she still lives. During the first years in Amsterdam she shared her apartment with Mariëlle Kerste, her best friend and also a Dutch cyclist. Kerste moved out a few years later and Van Dijk has since shared an apartment with the Dutch cyclist Hannah Walter.[6] In December 2014 Van Dijk moved to Woerden.

Van Dijk graduated from

master's degree, but didn't have time to complete it.[8]

Sport career

Speed skating

Van Dijk started her career as a speed skater. As a very young child, she had performed in natural ice skating tours and, at the age of eight, she became a member of a local speed skating club. During the winter months, Van Dijk trained almost every day at the local speed skating rink in Utrecht. She did this from when she was aged twelve until she was twenty years old. Van Dijk competed five times in the junior Dutch Allround Championships; she finished in tenth place on two occasions in the all-around competition and in fourth place in the 3000m in 2005.[9][10] She also rode the track record at the 5000 metres.[11]

Early cycling years

When she was ten years old, Van Dijk started, together with her two brothers and Mariëlle Kerste,

junior road race world title, with Van Dijk finishing third. In 2005, Van Dijk again won the Dutch national junior title in the individual time trial but finished second in the road race, again behind Vos.[12] In 2007, when Van Dijk was considered for selection in regional speed skating, she had to choose between speed skating and cycling– ultimately, she chose cycling.[10]

Professional career

2006

See also: 2006 Vrienden van het Platteland season

Van Dijk achieved two stage victories in the Tour Féminin en Limousin and in the Giro della Toscana. In the middle of the season, Van Dijk suffered a clavicle fracture and as a result was hampered in the national championships.[13] She finished 10th at the U-23 European Championships in Valkenburg[12] and at the World University Cycling Championship, Van Dijk won the individual time trial and finished second in the road race.[14] At the end of the season, Van Dijk was a reserve at the road world championships but she did not race.[15] At the Dutch National Track Championships she won bronze in the individual pursuit.

2007

See also: 2007 Vrienden van het Platteland season

Van Dijk won the first stage in the Tour of Chongming Island and finished second in the general classification. At the national time trial championships she became for the first time Dutch champion in the elite category. In the time trial at the European Championships (under-23) she finished fifth. Due to her good results in the time trials she was chosen to represent the Netherlands in the time trial at the Road World Championships in Stuttgart where she finished 17th.[16] Due to her good results she became sportswomen of the year of Woerden.[17] Because Van Dijk had more spare time in the winter after quitting speed skating, she was invited to join the Dutch national track cycling team.[10] At the national track championships she became Dutch champion in the individual pursuit, ahead of Marianne Vos and Kirsten Wild, and finished fourth in the scratch race and points race.[12]

2008

See also: 2008 Vrienden van het Platteland season

Due to her good results at the national track cycling championships, Van Dijk was chosen to ride the individual pursuit in the remaining two (out of four)

European Track Championships in the scratch as well as in the points race. She rode to the silver medal in the omnium and the individual pursuit events.[12]
Despite not winning a medal at the Dutch time trial championships she won the time trial at the European Championships (under-23). She was not selected to ride the time trial at the Summer Olympics, because the course would be too heavy for her.[20][21]

2009

See also:
2009 Team Columbia–High Road Women season

On the track, Van Dijk followed other competitors by riding with a heavier gear.

Track Cycling World Cups. She skipped the National track championships, which were held two weeks after the World Championships.[24]

2010

See also: 2010 Team HTC–Columbia Women season

Van Dijk did not reach the finals at the

Sparkassen Giro and finished second in the Open de Suède Vårgårda World Cup race in Sweden. At the Dutch Track Championships, Van Dijk won five medals including gold in the individual pursuit.[12]

2011

See also: 2011 HTC–Highroad Women season
HTC-High Road
.

Van Dijk cycled in the team pursuit to a national team time trial record at the

Track Cycling World Cup in Manchester. A month later however she rode with the team three seconds slower at the Track Cycling World Championships
and finished in 5th place; the same position in which Van Dijk finished in the individual pursuit.

Van Dijk started the road cycling season by winning all three classifications (yellow jersey, points and young rider) in the

Track Cycling World Cup in Astana in a new national record, which was her fourth World Cup victory. At the end of the year she successfully defended her Dutch individual pursuit title at the Dutch National Track Championships and also became national champion in the madison.[12][29]

2012

See also: 2012 Team Specialized–lululemon season

After a knee injury due to an accident with a scooter and a few weeks of required rest and adjusted training,

Energiewacht Tour; because she did not earn enough bonus seconds during the tour she finished second in the general classification. Van Dijk also won the individual time trial and the road race in the Omloop van Borsele.[31] A few days later she started in the Gracia–Orlová, where she won the prologue and a stage and helped her teammate Evelyn Stevens to win the general classification. Back in the Netherlands, in Emmen
, she became the Dutch time trial champion in the elite category for the second time in her career.

Ellen van Dijk supported by Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and his family at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Van Dijk was selected to represent her country at the

Dutch national record in round one. According to Van Dijk, sixth place was the highest attainable place the team could have hoped to achieve.[36]

As preparation for the

Lotto–Decca Tour and as a result also topped the general classification, finishing ahead of Kirsten Wild in second place. At the World Road Championships in Valkenburg Van Dijk became world champion in the team time trial with Team Specialized–lululemon.[37] Three days later, Van Dijk finished fifth in the individual time trial on a hilly course that she afterwards described as being "not made for me".[38] During the winter period she chose not to ride on the track to keep her focus completely on the 2013 road cycling season.[39]

2013

See also: 2013 Specialized–lululemon season
Ellen van Dijk won the women's time trial at the World Championships.

Van Dijk started the season with a third place in the general classification of the Ladies Tour of Qatar. During the season openers Van Dijk rode very well highlighted by her victory in the Le Samyn des Dames. In the first three UCI World Cup races Van Dijk finished two times second (Ronde van Drenthe, Tour of Flanders) and rode to a third place in the Trofeo Alfredo Binda in Italy. Her second stage race of the season, the Energiewacht Tour included the first individual time trial of the season which she won with a big difference. After also finishing two times second she won the general classification. About the time trial she said later that she had been tested on her time trial position during her stay in Italy . After a day of testing and adjusting the position of the saddle and the steer she found a better position which she was able to maintain for almost half an hour.[39] She also said that she rode at a higher power than in the time trials at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 World Championships.[40] Van Dijk also improved riding uphill and finished sixt in the fourth World Cup race, the hilly La Flèche Wallonne. Her time trial continued to go well and she won the time trials at the EPZ Omloop van Borsele and two time trial stages in the Gracia–Orlová. She also won a mountain stage, the queen stage, in the Gracia–Orlová and so the general classification. In June she successfully defended her National Time Trial title in Winsum. A few days later she rode in medal position during the National Road Race Championships but had to abandon the race due to a broken derailleur in the second last lap.[41] At the Giro d'Italia Femminile, the most prestigious stage race in women's cycling, she won stage 8, an individual time trial. With Specialized–lululemon she won World Cup team time trial at the Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT. After the last two World Cup races, the Open de Suède Vårgårda where she finished fourth and the GP de Plouay which she did not ride to prepare for the last stage races, she finished third in the overall World Cup standings. She rode strong during the stage races and won the general classification of the Belgium Tour as well as of the Holland Ladies Tour, including the team time trial stages.

As a preparation for the World Championships in Tuscany Van Dijk went during the season a few times to Italy to practise the time trial course. She trained at five in the morning to avoid traffic and made video recordings of the course to get to know the turns.[42] In the week before the World Championships she won the French time trial Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen. All the preparations paid off and the World Championships were very successful for Van Dijk. With her team she won for the second consecutive year the world title in the team time trial. Because Van Dijk had won almost all the time trials this year she was also the main favourite for the individual time trial. Despite the pressure she won the time trial with a convincing victory and became the second Dutch women to win this title.[43] At the end of the championships, Van Dijk finished 16th on a non-preferable hilly road race course.

Due to her successful season she ended third in the 2013 Women's Road World Ranking. At the end of the year Van Dijk won the title Amsterdam Sportswoman of the year.[44] She was nominated previous years but never won the title. She was also nominated to become Dutch cyclist of the year but lost from Marianne Vos.[45]

2014

See also: 2014 Boels–Dolmans season
Van Dijk on the podium after winning the Tour of Flanders.

In October 2013 Van Dijk announced that she signed a three-year contract with

Lizzie Armitstead to victory by closing a massive gap in the final part of the race.[50]

Van Dijk won the

GP Leende a month later. She finished second behind former teammate Lisa Brennauer. Van Dijk responded that here average power during the time trial was not great but also not very bad and that Brennauer is a world class time trialist.[52] Two days later she finished again second in the prologue of the Elsy Jacobs stage race, two seconds behind Marianne Vos
.

At the

Boels Rental Hills Classic Van Dijk was part of front group that consisted of six riders which fell apart into a group of three riders. With an uphill finish, Van Dijk lost the sprint from Johansson (Orica–AIS) and finished second ahead of Amy Pieters (Rabo Liv). Van Dijk won the mountain classification of the race.[53] In June, Van Dijk started as the main favourite at the Dutch National Time Trial Championships, but did not win her fourth time trial title. She finished second, with a margin of only 0.02 seconds, behind Annemiek van Vleuten (Rabo Liv). Van Dijk was disappointed and responded that she was not that good as in 2013 without having a real explanation for it.[54]

Boels Rental Ladies Tour

Van Dijk participated at

Boels Rental Ladies Tour, with a 12 seconds gap over her main rival Lisa Brennauer. Her first international time trial victory of the season.[56] With the other stages ending in a bunch sprint and sprinters winning the bonification seconds, Van Dijk finished third in the general classification. A final test for het time trial capabilities before the World Championships was at the Chrono Champenois ITT. Halfway the 33.40 kilometres (20.8 miles) time trial she had a 39 seconds advantage over Hanna Solovey, but she finished second 8 seconds behind her because she lost about a minute after riding the wrong direction.[57]

2015

See also: 2015 Boels–Dolmans season
Van Dijk winning stage 2 of the Ladies Tour of Qatar
Van Dijk won with Boels–Dolmans the silver medal in the team time trial at the world championships

Van Dijk started the season as usual with the

Chantal Blaak who sprinted to victory. Due to a back injury, Van Dijk could not start in Omloop van het Hageland. In the first World Cup of the season, the Ronde van Drenthe, the team was eager to win. In the final Van Dijk was the lead-out for Armitstead. However, Armitstead lost Van Dijk in the last kilometer. Van Dijk continued sprinting and rode to the third place. She was happy with her result, but found it a shame that the team did not win. During the second World Cup race, the Trofeo Alfredo Bina Van Dijk couldn't ride uphill with the fastest riders and finished eighth, with teammate Armitstead taking the win. For the Tour of Flanders, Van Dijk heard a day before the race she was not as a leader of the team, although Van Dijk won this World Cup race previous year. Because Van Dijk prepared very well for this race she was disappointed, and didn't ride a good race finishing 24th. Van Dijk rode several races in the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain in April, May and the begin of the June. The most notable results from these race being a second place in the team time trial in the Energiewacht Tour and a second place in Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik, being outsprinted by Gracie Elvin
. Van Dijk was selected to represent
time trial was her big goal and she was the favorite to win it. With a good race over the straight circuit she was 36 seconds faster than the Ukrainian Hanna Solovey and won the first gold medal for the Netherlands. In the road race she was part of front group of four riders, together with countrywomen Anna van der Breggen. During the last lap it appeared that Van der Breggen rode for her Polish trade-teammate Katarzyna Niewiadoma
and not for the Netherlands. Van Dijk was the brunt of these tactics and finished fourth. Four days later, back in the Netherlands, she was not able to win the national time trial championships, finishing almost half a minute behind Van der Breggen.

Van Dijk at the time trial world championships

During the

2015 Boels Rental Ladies Tour on 1 September. She rode in the stage race stronger every day and finished second in the time trial, two seconds behind of Lisa Brennauer
. She moved to the third place in the general classification and was able to keep this position.

At the 2015 UCI Road World Championships in Richmond, United States, she won the silver medal with her team in the team time trial. In the time trial she finished disappointingly seventh. A reason for her performance was that her rear wheal was not well attached in the frame. Her wheel ran into the frame, damaging her tire and puncturing her inner tube. For the road race she rode for Anna van der Breggen who won the silver medal and finished in tenth place herself.

2016

Van Dijk at the Olympic road race

Van Dijk started the road race season also this year with the

Gent–Wevelgem and Tour of Flanders for Women. Van Dijk had a very successful Energiewacht Tour. With her team she won the team time trial first stage. During the early sprint finish she was able to not lose any time. After winning the time trial of stage 4b she led the general classification. Van Dijk didn't give away her advantage in the last stage, and so she won after 2013 for the second time the Energiewacht Tour. After racing more international races from April to May the first championships of the season was the 2016 Dutch national time trial championships. However, due to a back injury she was not able to start.[61] In the road race of the national championships a few days later she was not able win from the Rabo–Liv who played it smart with their large number of riders. In July she won the time trial of the Thüringen Rundfahrt stage race, beating national champion Annemiek van Vleuten
. For two stages she led the general classification but was not able to keep the yellow jersey after a breakaway of two riders got a too large advantage.

2022

In April 2022 van Dijk announced that she would try to break the hour record on 23 May in Grenchen, Switzerland.[62] On 23 May 2022, she did set a new record of 49.254 kilometres (30.605 miles).[63][64]

Career achievements

Major results

Road

2004
3rd Road race, UCI World Junior Championships
2005
7th Road race, UCI World Junior Championships
2006
World University Championships
1st Road race
2nd Time trial
1st Stage 1 (ITT) Giro della Toscana
5th Overall Tour Féminin en Limousin
1st Stage 2
6th Lowland International Rotterdam Tour
2007
1st Time trial, National Championships
1st Profronde van Stiphout
2nd Overall Tour of Chongming Island Stage race
1st Stage 1
3rd Omloop van Borsele
3rd Tour of Chongming Island Time trial
5th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
5th Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen
6th Omloop Het Volk
7th Novilon Internationale Damesronde van Drenthe
7th Sparkassen Giro
2008
1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
Tour de l'Aude
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
1st Stage 1 (ITT) Tour Féminin en Limousin
3rd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden
7th Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen
2009
1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st Stage 1 (ITT) Giro della Toscana
1st Stage 2 (ITT) Holland Ladies Tour
2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
3rd Time trial, National Championships
4th Overall Tour of Qatar
1st Young rider classification
2010
1st Sparkassen Giro
2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
3rd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
1st Stage 6 (ITT)
5th Omloop van Borsele
5th Open de Suède Vårgårda
6th Ronde van Gelderland
6th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup
7th Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen
9th GP Stad Roeselare
10th
Novilon Eurocup Ronde van Drenthe
2011
1st Overall Tour of Qatar
1st Points classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 2
1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
1st Stage 2 (ITT) Holland Ladies Tour
2nd Time trial, National Championships
2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda
5th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
6th Time trial, UCI World Championships
2012
UCI World Championships
1st Team time trial
5th Time trial
1st Time trial, National Championships
1st Overall Belgium Tour
1st Stage 3
1st Time trial, EPZ Omloop van Borsele
1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Holland Ladies Tour
2nd Overall Energiewacht Tour
1st Stage 4b (TTT)
2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
4th Overall Tour of Qatar
6th Overall Gracia Orlová
1st Prologue & Stage 2 (ITT)
6th Tour of Flanders
8th Time trial, Olympic Games
10th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
2013
UCI World Championships
1st Time trial
1st Team time trial
1st Time trial, National Championships
1st Overall Gracia–Orlová
1st Points classification
1st Prologue, Stages 2 (ITT) & 4
1st Overall Energiewacht Tour
1st Stage 3a (ITT)
1st Overall Belgium Tour
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
1st Overall Holland Ladies Tour
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
1st Time trial, EPZ Omloop van Borsele
1st Le Samyn des Dames
1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
1st Chrono Champenois
1st Stage 8 (ITT) Giro Rosa
2nd Ronde van Drenthe
2nd Tour of Flanders
3rd Overall UCI World Rankings
3rd Overall UCI World Cup
3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
4th Open de Suède Vårgårda
5th Holland Hills Classic
6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
6th Omloop van het Hageland
6th
Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo
6th La Flèche Wallonne
7th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
2014
1st Tour of Flanders
EPZ Omloop van Borsele
1st Time trial
3rd Road race
1st RaboRonde Heerlen
2nd Time trial, National Championships
2nd Chrono Champenois
2nd Holland Hills Classic
3rd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
4th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois Elsy Jacobs
4th Le Samyn
7th Time trial, UCI World Championships
7th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
8th Overall Energiewacht Tour
8th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
10th La Flèche Wallonne
2015
European Games
1st Time trial
4th Road race
1st Time trial, EPZ Omloop van Borsele
UCI World Championships
2nd Team time trial
7th Time trial
10th Road race
2nd Time trial, National Championships
2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2nd Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik
3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
1st Stage 2
3rd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
3rd Ronde van Drenthe
4th Ronde van Overijssel
6th Overall Energiewacht Tour
8th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
8th Holland Hills Classic
8th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
2016
UCI World Championships
1st Team time trial
2nd Time trial
1st Time trial, UEC European Championships
1st Overall Energiewacht Tour
1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 4b (ITT)
1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
2nd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
1st Stage 3
3rd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt
1st Stage 4 (ITT)
3rd Chrono Champenois
4th Time trial, Olympic Games
5th Holland Hills Classic
6th Tour of Flanders
8th Gent–Wevelgem
8th Diamond Tour
2017
UCI World Championships
1st Team time trial
5th Time trial
1st Time trial, UEC European Championships
1st Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
1st Points classification
1st Stage 1a (ITT)
1st Tour de Okinawa
National Championships
2nd Time trial
5th Road race
2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt
2nd Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik
3rd Overall Tour of Norway
1st Prologue
3rd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
4th
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
5th Overall The Women's Tour
5th Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour
6th Le Samyn
8th Omloop van het Hageland
10th Amstel Gold Race
2018
1st Time trial, UEC European Championships
1st Time trial, National Championships
1st
Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
1st Omloop van het Hageland
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro Rosa
2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt
1st Stage 7 (ITT)
2nd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
UCI World Championships
3rd Time trial
3rd Team time trial
5th
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
7th Tour of Flanders
9th Strade Bianche
10th Ronde van Drenthe
2019
1st Time trial, UEC European Championships
1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
1st Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden TTT
2nd Time trial, National Championships
2nd Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
1st Stage 4a (ITT)
3rd Ronde van Drenthe
5th Tour of Flanders
6th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt
1st Stage 5 (ITT)
6th Drentse Acht van Westerveld
2020
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro Rosa
2nd Time trial, UEC European Championships
3rd Time trial, UCI World Championships
3rd
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
4th Overall Challenge by La Vuelta
5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
5th Le Samyn
7th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
8th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
2021
UCI World Championships
1st Time trial
2nd Team relay
UEC European Championships
1st Road race
2nd Time trial
1st Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
1st Combination classification
1st Stage 2 (ITT)
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro Rosa
2nd Time trial, National Championships
2nd Overall Belgium Tour
1st Mountains classification
1st Cobblestones classification
1st Prologue
3rd Overall Holland Ladies Tour
9th Dwars door Vlaanderen
10th Strade Bianche
10th Donostia San Sebastián Klasikoa
2022
1st Time trial, UCI World Championships
1st Time trial, National Championships
1st Overall Bloeizone Fryslân Tour
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
1st
BeNe Ladies Tour
1st Prologue & Stage 3b (ITT)
2nd Time trial, UEC European Championships
4th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
1st Stage 2
7th Paris–Roubaix
General classification results timeline
Stage race 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs — — — — — — — — — 4 — 11 — — — NH — —
Emakumeen Euskal Bira — — — — — DNF 74 11 13 22 DNF — — — — Not held
The Women's Tour
 Did not exist 14 — 13 5 12 15 — 23
Thüringen Rundfahrt — — — — DNF 38 — — DNF — — 3 2 2 6 35 —
Giro d'Italia Femminile
 — — — — — DNF 94 — 24 26 23 — — 33 — 27 35 —
Belgium Tour Did not exist 1 1 — — — — — — NH 2 —
Tour of Norway Did not exist — — — — 3 — — — NH
Holland Ladies Tour 58 27 18 — 21 3 DNF 12 1 3 3 2 3 2 DNF 3
Giro della Toscana — 36 — DNF DNF — — — — — — — — — — — —
One-day race results timeline
Classic 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad — 6 — — — — 2 6 13 2 27 4 18 21 5 33
17
Strade Bianche Did not exist — — — 9 16 17 10 —
Ronde van Drenthe — 15 61 40
21
 68 — 2 7 3 — 12 10
3
 NH DNF 17
Trofeo Alfredo Binda — — — — — — 48 3 8 8 — 19 — — — 20
Gent–Wevelgem Did not exist — — — — 8 33 23 76 26 20 42
Tour of Flanders DNF 40 — — 62 OTL 6 2 1 24 6 18 7 5 17 21 31
Paris–Roubaix Did not exist NH 32 7
Amstel Gold Race Did not exist 10 25 36 — 31
La Flèche Wallonne — — — — — — — 6 10 36 38 16 32 — — — 51
Liege–Bastogne–Liege Did not exist
4
5
13
13
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Major championship results
Event 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Olympic Games Time trial Not held — Not held 8 Not held 4 Not held — NH
Road race — OTL 21 —
World Championships Time trial — 17 20 20 — 6 5 1 7 7 2 5 3 — 3 1 1
Road race — — — — — — DNF 16 29 10 85 15 60 — 19 18 24
Team time trial Did not exist 1 1 5 2 1 1 3 Not held
Team relay Did not exist — NH 2 5
European Championships
 Time trial Did not exist 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
Road race — 61 19 — — 1 42
European Games Time trial Event did not exist 1 Not held — Not held
Road race 4 —
National Championships Time trial 7 1 4 3 7 2 1 1 2 2 DNS 2 1 2 NH 2 1
Road race 26 18 20 9 16 11 — DNF 35 12 24 5 7 5 — 22 7
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
NH Not held
OTL Outside time limit

Track

2008
2nd Team pursuit, 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Copenhagen
2009
2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Copenhagen
1st Individual pursuit
1st Points race
2nd Team pursuit
2011
1st Team pursuit, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Astana
Sport records icon NR Dutch National Record, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics (Team pursuit, 3:23.179)
Sport records icon NR Dutch National Record, (Team pursuit, 3:21.550)
2012
Dutch National Record, Olympic Games
(Team pursuit, 3:20.013)
Major championship results
Event 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Olympic Games Team pursuit Not held — Not held 6
World Championships Individual pursuit — — 5 6 5 5 —
Points race — — — 15 8 — —
Scratch — — 1 6 — — —
Team pursuit — — 6 4 5 5 —
European Championships Individual pursuit — — — — — — —
Omnium — — 2 — 9 — —
Points race — — — — — — —
Scratch — — — — — — —
Team pursuit — — — — 9 5 —
National Championships Individual pursuit 3 1 1 — 1 1 —
Madison — — — — 2 1 —
Omnium — — — — 2 — —
Points race 9 4 4 — 3 — —
Scratch — 4 2 — 3 6 —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

National team pursuit records

Main article: Dutch record progression track cycling – Women's team pursuit

The women's 3000 m team pursuit track cycling discipline was introduced at the 2007–08 track cycling season. The Dutch team consisting of Ellen van Dijk, Marlijn Binnendijk and Yvonne Hijgenaar rode the team pursuit for the first time at Round 4 at the 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Copenhagen in a time of 3:36.901 (49.792 km/h). They broke the record later that day. After have ridden the team pursuit for the first time, the record has been broken nine times. Van Dijk is the only woman who always has been part of the squad when a record was broken. The current record was settled during the 2012 Summer Olympics by Van Dijk, Kirsten Wild and Vera Koedooder in a time of 3:20.013 (53.996 km/h) on 4 August 2012. After the 2011–12 track cycling season the UCI changed the discipline into a 4000 m team pursuit with 4 riders.

Individual records

Speed skating
Distance Time Date Ice Rink
500 meter 43.72 30 October 2006 Thialf, Heerenveen
1000 meter 1:26.41 5 February 2005 De Smelt, Assen
1500 meter 2:09.00 4 November 2005 Thialf, Heerenveen
3000 meter 4:27.05 18 March 2005 Thialf, Heerenveen
5000 meter 7:41.93 17 March 2006 Thialf, Heerenveen
Track cycling
Discipline Time Date Event Velodrome
Individual pursuit (3000 m) 3:32.505 27 March 2008 Track Cycling World Championships Manchester Velodrome
Team pursuit (3000 m) 3:20.013 NR 4 August 2012 Olympic Games London Velodrome
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Notes

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Further reading

Jeanine Laudy, Jan Willem Verkiel,: Strijd in het vrouwenpeloton: de Giro door de ogen van Marianne Vos en Ellen van Dijk (

ISBN 9043916145), Tirion Sport (in Dutch). The story of Ellen van Dijk and Marianne Vos of the 2011 Giro d'Italia Femminile
.

External links

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Track Cycling World Champion (scratch race)
2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
 Judith Arndt (GER)
 Road Cycling World Champion (time trial)
2013 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Inaugural event
 Road Cycling World Champion (team time trial)
Specialized–lululemon
2012, 2013 		Succeeded by
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