Jolanda Neff

Jolanda Neff (born 5 January 1993) is a Swiss cyclist, who primarily rides in the cross-country cycling and cyclo-cross disciplines, for the Cannondale Factory Racing team. She won the gold medal in the women's cross-country event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Career She was the overall winner of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in 2014 and 2015. She was triple Under-23 Mountain Bike World Champion (2012, 2013 and 2014). At the 2017 UCI World Championships in Cairns she became the elite world champion.

In June 2015, she won the first gold medal for Switzerland in the women's cross country event at the European Games in Baku. Later the same month, she went on to win the Swiss National Road Race Championships.

Neff won the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in 2016 and Mountain Bike XCO World Championship in 2017. She also won the European Mountain Bike Championships in August 2018 at Cathkin Braes, just outside of Glasgow.

In October 2018, Neff announced that she would join the new team for 2019 in road racing, and Trek Factory Racing in mountain biking and cyclo-cross.

In July 2021, Neff won the gold medal in the women's cross-country event at the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics. Her victory, along with her teammates Linda Indergand and Sina Frei winning the bronze and silver medals, marked the first all-Swiss Olympic podium since 1936 and the first time a nation has won all three medals in a cycling event since 1904.

Career achievements Major results Cyclo-cross

2015–2016 1st Madiswil 2017–2018 EKZ CrossTour 1st Bern 1st Meilen 2nd Eschenbach 2018–2019 1st National Championships DVV Trophy 1st Baal EKZ CrossTour 1st Meilen UCI World Cup 5th Namur 2019–2020 1st Waterloo UCI World Cup 2nd Waterloo 2021–2022 1st Waterloo UCI World Cup 4th Waterloo 2022–2023 1st Hendersonville I 2025–2026 1st Hendersonville I 1st Hendersonville II 2nd National Championships UCI World Cup 5th Namur

Road Source:

2015 1st Road race, National Championships 4th Giro dell'Emilia 6th Trofeo Alfredo Binda 9th Road race, UCI World Championships 2016 1st Overall Tour de Pologne 1st Points classification 1st Active rider classification 1st Stages 1 & 3 3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda 8th Road race, Olympic Games 10th La Flèche Wallonne 2018 1st Road race, National Championships 2020 4th Time trial, National Championships 2021 4th Overall Tour de Suisse 2022 5th Overall Tour de Suisse 2023 1st Overall Trofeo Ponente in Rosa 1st Points classification 1st Stage 3 & 4 2024 5th Overall Trofeo Ponente in Rosa

Mountain bike Source:

2012 UCI World Championships 1st Under-23 cross-country

1st Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships National Championships 1st Eliminator 1st Under-23 cross-country BMC Racing Cup 2nd Basel–Muttenz 3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup 2013 UCI World Championships 1st Under-23 cross-country

1st Eliminator, National Championships

BMC Racing Cup 3rd Gränichen 2014 UCI World Championships 1st Under-23 cross-country

National Championships 1st Cross-country 2nd Eliminator 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup 1st Pietermaritzburg 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne 1st Méribel 3rd Albstadt BMC Racing Cup 1st Buchs 1st Lugano–Tesserete 1st Gränichen 1st Lenzerheide 1st Basel–Muttenz

2015 UEC European Championships

1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup 1st Nové Město 1st Albstadt 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne 2nd Windham 2nd Trentino BMC Racing Cup 1st Schaan 1st Lugano–Tesserete 1st Solothurn 1st Gränichen 2016 1st Marathon, UCI World Championships UEC European Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Team relay 1st Cross-country, National Championships

2017 UCI World Championships 1st Cross-country 1st Team relay 1st Cross-country, National Championships 2018 1st Team relay, UCI World Championships 1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships 1st Cross-country, National Championships 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup 1st Albstadt 3rd Val di Sole Swiss Bike Cup 1st Gränichen 1st Andermatt 2nd Schaan 1st Internacionales Chelva UCI XCC World Cup 2nd Albstadt 2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne 3rd Nové Město 3rd La Bresse 2019 1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships UCI XCC World Cup 1st Vallnord 1st Val di Sole 2nd Albstadt 2nd Lenzerheide 3rd Nové Město 1st Tokyo 2020 Test Event

2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup 2nd Albstadt 2nd Vallnord 2nd Les Gets 2nd Val di Sole 2020 1st Cross-country, National Championships Swiss Bike Cup 2nd Leukerbad French Cup 2nd Alpe d'Huez 2021

1st Cross-country, National Championships Internazionali d'Italia Series 1st Andora 2nd Copa Catalana Internacional BTT UCI XCC World Cup 3rd Leogang 3rd Lenzerheide 2022 1st Short track, National Championships UCI XCO World Cup 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne 3rd Val di Sole UCI World Championships

3rd Overall UCI XCC World Cup 1st Nové Město 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne 3rd Lenzerheide 2023 2nd Cross-country, National Championships 2nd Haiming Swiss Bike Cup 2nd Basel 3rd Gränichen 4th Cross-country, UEC European Championships UCI XCO World Cup 4th Mont-Sainte-Anne 5th Snowshoe 2024 Swiss Bike Cup 2nd Gränichen 2nd Rivera Shimano Super Cup 2nd Banyoles UCI XCO World Cup 5th Mairiporã 2025 Shimano Super Cup 1st Banyoles 3rd La Nucia Swiss Bike Cup 1st Rivera Internazionali d'Italia Series 1st San Zeno di Montagna 1st Dornbirn Ötztaler Festival 3rd Haiming UCI XCO World Cup 4th Leogang

Awards and honours Between 2014 and 2019, Neff was named as the Swiss female cyclist of the year at the . She won the award for a seventh time in 2021, as all five Swiss female cyclists to ride, and win medals, at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Neff, Sina Frei, Linda Indergand, Marlen Reusser and Nikita Ducarroz – were recognised as joint winners.

Following her Olympic gold medal, a street in Thal was renamed as "Jolanda Neff Weg" in her honour in August 2021.