Tessa Neefjes

Tessa Neefjes (born 7 December 1996) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for Giant Liv Benelux Offroad Team. She's the 2022 European Champion Mountain bike Beach race and the 2022 Dutch Champion Mountain bike Marathon. In 2022 she won two UCI Gravel World Series races in Millau and Houffalize and the Dutch Gravel Series.

In 2016 she won the Dutch Road Championships in the category Elite without a contract. Later that year, during a training ride in the Ardennes, she was hit by a truck driver who drove on the wrong side of the road. The frontal collision caused 16 bone fractures in her back, shoulder, ribs and hand. After her recovery, she chose to ride additional off-road disciplines that she likes the most.

Major results Road 2016

Mountain biking

2019 3rd Beach race, UEC European Mountain Bike Championships 2020 3rd Beach race, National Mountain Bike Championships 1st Beach races Egmond-pier-Egmond, ’s-Gravenzande, Katwijk, Julianadorp, Rockanje 2021 3rd Mitas 4 Islands MTB Marathon Stage Race, Croatia, with Rosa van Doorn 2022

1st Beach race Noordwijk 2nd Beach race, National Mountain Bike Championships 2023 2nd Beach race, National Mountain Bike Championships

Gravel 2022 1st Wish One Gravel Race, UCI Gravel World Series Millau 1st Houffa Gravel, UCI Gravel World Series Houffalize 1st Dutch Gravel series overall classification, and the races in Meerveld and Banholt