Jenny Rissveds

Jenny Rissveds (born 6 June 1994) is a Swedish cross-country mountainbike rider. She won the gold medal in women's cross country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Career Rissveds won the gold medal in the under-23 mountainbike race at the World Championships in 2016.

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.

After suffering from mental health issues, Jenny took an hiatus from competing most of the 2017 and the 2018 season.

In July 2017, she was awarded the Victoria Scholarship.

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.

Rissveds won her second olympic medal, a bronze, at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Major results Cyclo-cross 2015–2016 1st National Championships 1st Stockholm 2016–2017 1st National Championships

Road

2010 6th Overall U6 Cycle Tour 1st Stage 5 (ITT) 2022 1st Road race, National Championships 2nd Overall Gracia Orlová 1st Stage 2 2023 National Championships 1st Time trial 5th Road race 1st Overall Gracia Orlová 1st Stage 3 (ITT) 4th Overall Baloise Ladies Tour

Mountain bike

2012 1st Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships 2013 1st National Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Downhill 1st Eliminator

2014 1st National Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Eliminator 2015 1st National Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Eliminator

2016

1st Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships 1st Cross-country, National Championships UCI XCO World Cup 1st Lenzerheide 2nd Albstadt 4th Vallnord Internazionali d'Italia Series 1st Milan

2017

Swiss Bike Cup 1st Rivera 2019 1st Cross-country, National Championships UCI XCO World Cup 1st Lenzerheide 3rd Val di Sole 5th Vallnord UCI XCC World Cup 1st Snowshoe 3rd Lenzerheide 2020 1st Cross-country, National Championships 2021 National Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Eliminator UCI XCC World Cup 1st Lenzerheide 3rd Nové Město 3rd Les Gets 3rd Snowshoe 3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup 2nd Leogang 2nd Les Gets 3rd Lenzerheide 2022 National Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Short track Internazionali d'Italia Series 1st Capoliveri UCI XCC World Cup 1st Lenzerheide 3rd Albstadt 3rd Nové Město 3rd Snowshoe UCI XCO World Cup 2nd Albstadt 2nd Leogang 2nd Lenzerheide 2nd Snowshoe 3rd Nové Město 2023 UCI XCC World Cup 1st Lenzerheide UCI XCO World Cup 2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne 4th Leogang 2024 1st Cross-country, National Championships UCI XCO World Cup 1st Mairiporã 2nd Araxá 4th Les Gets UCI XCC World Cup 2nd Lake Placid

2025 UCI World Championships 1st Cross-country

UEC European Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Short track 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup 1st Araxá II 1st Les Gets 1st Lake Placid 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne 2nd Lenzerheide 3rd Pal–Arinsal 4th Val di Sole 2nd Overall UCI XCC World Cup 1st Les Gets 1st Lenzerheide 1st Lake Placid 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne 2nd Val di Sole 3rd Araxá II 2026 UCI XCO World Cup 1st Lenzerheide 1st Leogang 1st Pal–Arinsal 2nd Mona Yongpyong 2nd Nové Město 4th La Thuile UCI XCC World Cup 1st La Thuile 1st Pal–Arinsal 2nd Leogang