Miriam Bjørnsrud
 Before the start of Le Samyn 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 October 1992 Eidsvoll, Norway |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional team | |
| 2013–2017 | Team Hitec Products |
| Major wins | |
| National Championships Road Race (2015) | |
Miriam Bjørnsrud (born 9 October 1992) is a Norwegian former racing cyclist.[1] She finished 38th in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence.[2] In 2015, she won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships.
Before the 2017 UCI Road World Championships being contested in her home country, she announced that she would retire from racing, her last race was with Team Hitec Products in the team time trial.[3] She stated an inability to complete shake off anxiety racing in the peloton after she was injured in a high speed crash at the 2014 Road World Championships road race.[4]
Major results
- 2010
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st
Road race - 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 2012
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 2nd Criterium
- 2013
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 7th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
- 2014
- 1st Criterium, National Road Championships
- 2015
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Cholet Pays de Loire Dames
- 4th Erondegemse Pijl
- 2016
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 2017
- 3rd Overall Tour of Thailand
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
References
- ^ "Miriam Bjørnsrud". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ "Final Results / Résultats finaux: Road Race Women Elite / Course en ligne femmes élite" (PDF). Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Holterhuset, Martin (4 September 2017). "Tre år etter skrekkfallet i VM gir hun opp – Miriam (24) blir ikke kvitt angsten". Romerikes Blad. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
- ^ Murtnes, Sindre; Smith, Christian Nitschke (17 September 2017). "Når hjernen vil stoppe deg". Norsk Rikskringkasting. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
External links
- Miriam Bjørnsrud at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Miriam Bjørnsrud at ProCyclingStats