# Iris Slappendel

Iris Slappendel (born 18 February 1985) is a Dutch former road racing cyclist.

## Career

She won the 2012 Open de Suède Vårgårda road race, the penultimate event in the 2012 UCI Women's Road World Cup. Slappendel took a total of five UCI race victories in her career, including the GP Comune di Cornaredo and stages of the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, the Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden and La Route de France.
In September 2014 Slappendel announced that she would join the Bigla Pro Cycling Team for the 2015 season. After one season she moved to UnitedHealthcare, racing mainly in North America. In September 2016 she announced her retirement from professional competition, having won her final race, the Gateway Cup, earlier that month.

## Personal life

Outside of cycling, she works freelance as a designer, and she won a competition to design new jerseys for the leaders of the season-long classifications of the UCI Women's Road World Cup, to be used from the 2014 season. Since retiring, Slappendel has continued her career as a designer and started her own business that designs and manufactures cycling apparel. Having previously represented female riders in the UCI Athlete's Commission from 2015 to 2017, Slappendel now dedicates her time to The Cyclists' Alliance as executive director.

## Major results
### 2006

    3rd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden

### 2007

    8th Road race, National Road Championships

### 2008

    5th Time trial, National Road Championships
    9th Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden
    10th Peperbus Profspektakel

### 2009

    2nd Omloop Van De Blauwe Stad
    3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
    3rd Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
    4th Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen
    8th Time trial, National Road Championships
    9th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
    9th Omloop van Borsele

### 2010

    1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
    2nd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden
    3rd Parkhotel Rooding Hills Classic
    5th Time trial, National Road Championships
    6th Omloop Door Middag-humsterland
    8th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
       1st Stage 6
    10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    10th Ronde van Drenthe

### 2011

    3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar
    3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
    4th Time trial, National Road Championships
    5th Erondegemse Pijl
    6th Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden
    7th Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
    7th Open de Suède Vårgårda
    8th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
    9th Omloop van Borsele

### 2012

    1st GP Comune di Cornaredo
    1st Open de Suède Vårgårda
    National Road Championships
       3rd Time trial
       10th Road race
    3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
    4th Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    4th Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden
       1st Prologue
    6th Overall Energiewacht Tour
    6th Erondegemse Pijl
    6th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg

### 2013

    2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies
    3rd Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik
    8th Time trial, National Road Championships
    8th Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
    8th Overall Energiewacht Tour

### 2014

    1st Overall Sprints classification UCI Women's Road World Cup
    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Stage 7 La Route de France
    8th Ronde van Overijssel
    10th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar
    10th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup

### 2015

    8th Gent–Wevelgem

### 2016

    1st Gateway Cup