Leontien van Moorsel
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Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel is a Dutch retired racing cyclist. She was a dominant cyclist in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games and ho
Leontien van Moorsel in 1991
Leontien van Moorsel at the 2018 Women's Amstel Gold Race.
Various professional women's cycle stage races across France have been held as an equivalent to the Tour de France for women, with the first of these races staged as a one off in 1955. From 1984, a wo
Leontien van Moorsel
…the Olympic Games and holding the hour record for women from 2003 until 2015. At the age of eight, she competed in her first cycling race. She made her Tour Féminin debut in 1989 at the age of 19, finishing 31st overall. She went on to win the Tour Féminin twice in the first half of the 1990s, establishing a notable…
The bicycle ridden by Marianne Martin in the 1984 Tour de France Féminin
Maillot jaune from the 1993 Tour de la C.E.E. féminin, worn by winner Heidi Van De Vijver