# 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.
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 Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       5th Road race
    1st Overall Gracia Orlová
       1st Stage 3 (ITT)
    4th Overall Baloise Ladies Tour

### Mountain bike
#### 2013

    1st National Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Downhill
       1st Eliminator
    2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships

#### 2014

    1st National Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Eliminator
    DNF Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships

#### 2015

    1st National Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Eliminator
    3rd Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships

#### 2016

    1st Cross-country, Olympic Games
    1st Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    Internazionali d'Italia Series
       1st Milan
    2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Albstadt

#### 2017

    1st Overall Mixed Cape Epic (with Thomas Frischknecht)
    Swiss Bike Cup
       1st Rivera

#### 2019

    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Lenzerheide
       3rd Val di Sole
    UCI XCC World Cup
       1st Snowshoe
       3rd Lenzerheide
    16th Cross-country, UCI World Elite Championships

#### 2020

    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    DNF Cross-country, UCI World Elite Championships

#### 2021

    National Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Eliminator
    3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Leogang
       2nd Les Gets
       3rd Lenzerheide
    UCI XCC World Cup
       1st Lenzerheide
       3rd Nové Město
       3rd Les Gets
       3rd Snowshoe
    DNF Cross-country, UCI World Elite Championships

#### 2022

    National Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Short track
    UCI XCC World Cup
       1st Lenzerheide
       3rd Albstadt
       3rd Nové Město
    Internazionali d'Italia Series
       1st Capoliveri
    UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Albstadt
       2nd Leogang
       2nd Lenzerheide
       2nd Snowshoe
    DNS Cross-country, UCI World Elite Championships

#### 2023

    UCI XCC World Cup
       1st Lenzerheide
    UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
    DNF Cross-country, UCI World Elite Championships

#### 2024

    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Mairiporã
       2nd Araxá
       4th Les Gets
    3rd Cross-country, Olympic Games
    3rd Short track UCI World Elite Championships