Jaime Nielsen

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Jaime Nielsen

Jaime Nielsen (born 3 September 1985) is a New Zealand track and road cyclist, and a former representative rower.

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Jaime Nielsen
Personal information
Birth nameJaime Nielsen
Born (1985-09-03) 3 September 1985 (age 39)[1]
Hamilton, New Zealand[1]
Cycling career
Team information
Disciplines
RoleRider
Professional team
2015–2016BePink–La Classica
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Time Trial Championships (2014, 2015, 2017)
Sport
Sport
ClubWaikato Rowing Club
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Women's rowing
World U23 Regatta
2004 PoznańBW4x
Women's track cycling
World Championships
2009 PruszkówTeam pursuit
2011 ApeldoornTeam pursuit
2017 Hong KongTeam pursuit
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Career

From 2003 to 2007, Nielsen competed with the national rowing team. She became world champion at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Poznań, Poland, in 2004 with the U23 women's quadruple sculls with fellow members Bess Halley, Darnelle Timbs and Fiona Paterson.[2]

Despite only taking up cycling in 2007, at the team pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships she won silver in 2009 and bronze in 2011.[3]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's team pursuit for the New Zealand team which placed her 5th and set a national record of 3:18.514. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she finished 4th in the Women's team pursuit. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she finished eighth, in Women's team pursuit.[4]

Nielsen won the New Zealand National Time Trial Championships three times and was second five times.[5][6] In 2017 she broke the sea level world record for the one-hour ride in Cambridge. She clocked 47.791kms in the hour which was 909m more than the previous world's best at sea level.[7]

Major results

Track

2009
2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
2010
3rd Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Melbourne
2011
2nd Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
3rd Team pursuit
4th Individual pursuit
2013
1st Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
2nd Omnium, Invercargill
2014
Oceania Track Championships
1st Team pursuit (with Lauren Ellis, Racquel Sheath and Georgia Williams)
3rd Individual pursuit
3rd Points race, BikeNZ Cup
2015
1st Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
2016
1st Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
2nd Individual pursuit, Oceania Track Championships

Road

2011
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
2012
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
2013
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
2014
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
4th Time trial, Commonwealth Games
2015
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Ljubljana–Domžale–Ljubljana TT
9th Chrono Champenois
10th Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol
2016
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
2017
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
2021
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

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