Kirsten Wild

Kirsten Carlijn Wild (born 15 October 1982) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2021, for eight professional teams. During her track cycling career, Wild rode at the Summer Olympic Games in 2012, 2016 and 2020, winning a bronze medal at the latter Games, in the omnium. She won eighteen medals including nine golds at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and eighteen medals including eight golds at the UEC European Track Championships. Wild also took over 100 victories in road racing, and won two medals at the UCI Road World Championships.

Career At the 2012 London Olympics Wild finished sixth in the omnium, and was a member of the Dutch team that finished sixth in the team pursuit (together with Ellen van Dijk, Amy Pieters and Vera Koedooder).

After two seasons with , in September 2016 announced that Wild would join them for the 2017 season.

In October 2017, one day after the 2017 UEC European Track Championships in Berlin where Wild won gold at the elimination race, announced that Wild would join them for the 2018 season. She then joined in 2019.

On 3 August 2019, after coming first in the RideLondon Classique, she was disqualified after her sudden change of direction before the finish line resulted in a crash involving several riders.

Wild competed at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the madison, where she and Pieters finished fourth after crashing during the race, and the omnium, where she took the bronze medal. After taking over 100 wins on the road, Wild retired from road racing following the Holland Ladies Tour in August 2021. and the Champions League.

Major results Road

2004 1st Young rider classification Holland Ladies Tour 2nd Overall Novilon Damesronde van Drenthe 2005 3rd Ronde van Gelderland 7th Overall Novilon Damesronde van Drenthe 7th Sparkassen Giro Bochum 2006 1st Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 1st Stages 2 & 3 1st Omloop Door Middag-Humsterland 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Novilon Damesronde van Drenthe 3rd Lowland International Rotterdam Tour 4th Ronde van Gelderland 4th Omloop van Borsele 9th Open de Suède Vårgårda 10th Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt 2007 1st Overall Tour de Pologne Feminin 1st Stages 2, 3 & 4 1st Stage 3 Holland Ladies Tour 2nd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 5th Novilon Internationale Damesronde van Drenthe 5th Ronde van Gelderland 5th Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt 6th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio 6th Grand Prix de Dottignies 8th Omloop van Borsele 10th Omloop Het Volk 2008 1st Omloop Het Volk 1st Omloop van Borsele 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2nd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 1st Prologue 2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies 3rd Tour of Flanders for Women 3rd Novilon Eurocup Ronde van Drenthe 3rd Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt 8th Ronde van Drenthe 8th Ronde van Gelderland 8th Sparkassen Giro Bochum 10th GP Stad Roeselare 2009

1st Overall Tour du Grand Montréal 1st Stages 1, 2 & 4 1st Omloop van Borsele 1st GP Stad Roeselare Open de Suède Vårgårda 1st Team time trial 2nd Road race 1st Multidigitaal.nl – Blauwe StadTTT 1st Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt Giro d'Italia Femminile 1st Prologue & Stage 9 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2nd Overall Holland Ladies Tour 1st Points classification 1st Stages 1, 3 & 4 2nd Tour of Flanders 3rd Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo 4th Grand Prix de Dottignies 5th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio 5th Ronde van Gelderland 10th Ronde van Drenthe 2010

1st Stage 3 1st Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 2 Open de Suède Vårgårda 1st Team time trial 1st Road race 1st Grand Prix de Dottignies 1st Ronde van Gelderland 1st Omloop van Borsele 1st GP Stad Roeselare 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini 2nd Overall Tour of Chongming Island Stage race 1st Stage 2 2nd Overall Holland Ladies Tour 1st Stages 4 & 5 2nd Tour of Chongming Island World Cup 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 3rd Tour of Flanders for Women 3rd Novilon Eurocup Ronde van Drenthe 2011 1st Omloop van Borsele 2nd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 2nd Ronde van Drenthe 2nd Ronde van Gelderland Open de Suède Vårgårda 2nd Team time trial 6th Road race 3rd Overall Holland Ladies Tour 3rd 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg 4th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik 5th Overall Energiewacht Tour 6th GP Stad Roeselare 2012 1st Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 1st Stage 3 1st Stage 2 Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska 1st Stage 3 Holland Ladies Tour 2nd Ronde van Drenthe

3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar

1st Stages 1 & 3 4th Overall Belgium Tour 1st Stages 1 & 2 4th Omloop van het Hageland 4th Tour of Flanders for Women 5th Novilon Euregio Cup 7th Overall Energiewacht Tour 1st Stage 4a 7th Ronde van Gelderland 8th EPZ Omloop van Borsele 2013

1st Stages 2, 3 & 4 1st Ronde van Gelderland 1st Gent–Wevelgem Belgium Tour 1st Stages 2 & 3 Holland Ladies Tour

1st Stages 1 & 3 1st Stage 1 Giro d'Italia Femminile 3rd Overall Energiewacht Tour

1st Stages 1, 2, 3b & 4 3rd Sparkassen Giro Bochum 3rd Profronde van Surhuisterveen 5th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup 10th Tour of Flanders for Women 2014

1st Stages 1, 3 & 4

1st Stages 1 & 2 1st Ronde van Gelderland 1st Novilon EDR Cup 1st Tour of Chongming Island World Cup La Route de France 1st Stages 4 & 6 2nd EPZ Omloop van Borsele 2nd Ronde van Overijssel 2nd La Course by Le Tour de France 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 5th Open de Suède Vårgårda 6th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup 7th Overall Energiewacht Tour

1st Stages 1 & 2 9th Gent–Wevelgem 9th Sparkassen Giro 2015 1st Overall Tour of Chongming Island 1st Points classification 1st Stages 1 & 2 1st Novilon EDR Cup 1st Ronde van Gelderland 1st EPZ Omloop van Borsele 1st Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau 1st Omloop van de IJsseldelta 1st Stage 4 Tour de Bretagne Féminin 2nd Tour of Chongming Island World Cup 3rd La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta 4th Dwars door de Westhoek 5th Overall Energiewacht Tour

1st Stage 3 7th Ronde van Overijssel 9th La Course by Le Tour de France 2016 1st Women's Tour de Yorkshire 1st RideLondon Classique Ladies Tour of Qatar

1st Stage 1 Energiewacht Tour 1st Stages 4a & 5 1st Stage 4 Tour of California

5th Omloop van de IJsseldelta 2017 1st Stage 2 Holland Ladies Tour 2nd Overall Tour of Chongming Island 1st Stage 1 3rd Overall Santos Women's Tour 1st Stages 2 & 4 5th Prudential RideLondon Classique 7th Road race, UEC European Road Championships 7th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 7th Omloop van het Hageland 10th Crescent Vårgårda Road Race 2018 1st RideLondon Classique Women's Tour de Yorkshire

1st Stage 1 1st Stage 2 Giro Rosa 2nd Crescent Vårgårda 5th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour

1st Stage 3a 7th Overall Tour of Chongming Island 1st Stage 3 2019 1st Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 1st Gent–Wevelgem 2nd Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin 1st Points classification 1st Stages 1 & 2 3rd Overall Healthy Ageing Tour 1st Points classification 1st Stages 3 & 5 6th Road race, UEC European Road Championships 8th Ronde van Drenthe 2021 6th Classic Brugge–De Panne

Classics results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish NH Not held

Track

2007 3rd Individual pursuit, National Championships 2008 National Championships 2nd Individual pursuit 2nd Points race 2009 3rd Points race, National Championships 2010 2nd Individual pursuit, National Championships 2011 National Championships

2nd Individual pursuit

2013 UEC European Championships

2014 2nd Omnium, Grand Prix of Poland International Track Women & Men 3rd Omnium 3rd Points race 2015 UCI World Championships

Trofeu CAR Anadia Portugal 1st Omnium 1st Scratch 6 giorni delle rose – Fiorenzuola 1st Scratch 2nd Omnium 2nd Points race Irish International Track GP 1st Scratch 1st Omnium

2016 UEC European Championships

National Championships

1st Omnium, Apeldoorn Championships

2017 UEC European Championships

National Championships

Belgian International Meeting 1st Omnium 2nd Points race 2nd Madison (with Nina Kessler) 1st Madison, Zesdaagse Vlaanderen-Gent (with Amy Pieters) UCI World Championships

2nd Points race, Revolution Series – Champions League – Round 2, Glasgow 8th Overall Six Day London 2018 UCI World Championships

UEC European Championships

Revolution Series Champions League, Round 3 – Manchester 1st Points race 2nd Scratch Six Days of Bremen 1st Madison 1st Omnium 2019 UCI World Championships

European Games

UEC European Championships

2020 UCI World Championships

2021 UCI World Championships

2nd Endurance, UCI Track Champions League 1st Scratch, London I

National records

Wild was the last three times part of the 3000 m team pursuit squad when they established a new Dutch national record. She is together with Ellen van Dijk and Vera Koedooder the current national record holder, with a time of 3:20.013 (53.996 km/h) established at the 2012 Summer Olympics on 4 August 2012. After the 2011–12 track cycling season the UCI changed the discipline into a 4000 m team pursuit with four riders. Time Speed(km/h) Cyclists Event Location of race Date Ref 3:23.179 Ellen van DijkKirsten WildVera Koedooder 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics – Round 4 (Qualifying) Manchester 18 February 2011 3:21.550 Ellen van DijkKirsten WildVera Koedooder 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup – Round 1 Astana 4 November 2011 3:20.013 Ellen van DijkKirsten WildVera Koedooder 2012 Summer Olympics (first round) London 4 August 2012