# Leontien van Moorsel

Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970) is a Dutch retired racing cyclist. She was a dominant cyclist in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games and holding the hour record for women from 2003 until 2015.

## Career

Van Moorsel started her career in 1977. She won major races both on the track, and on the road. In the first half of the 1990s, she won the Tour Féminin twice, after fierce competition with Jeannie Longo.
Van Moorsel dropped out of cycling in 1994 with anorexia nervosa but recovered to compete at the World Championships in 1998, winning the time trial and coming second in the road race.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, van Moorsel won gold medals on the road (road race and time trial), and on the track (3 km pursuit). At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she fell in the penultimate lap of the road race and was stretchered off and taken to the hospital by ambulance, but nevertheless successfully defended her time trial title two days later.
She set a new world hour record for women of 46.065 km, in 2003 in Mexico City, which was not improved upon for almost 12 years, when UCI rule changes prompted a new succession of attempts.
Van Moorsel retired from professional cycling after the 2004 Olympics.
In 2017 Van Moorsel became director of the Women's Amstel Gold Race.
In September 2017, Van Moorsel was accused by sports physician Peter Janssen of using EPO in 2000 and 2001.

## Major results
### 1985

    1st National Novice Road Race Championships

### 1987

    1st National Novice Road Race Championships

### 1988

    1st National Road Race Championships

### 1989

    1st National Road Race Championships
    1st Stage 1 Tour of Norway

### 1990

    1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
    1st UCI Road World Championships Team Time Trial
    1st National Road Race Championships
    2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
    National Track Championship
       3rd Points race
       3rd Individual sprint
    3rd Chrono des Nations

### 1991

    1st UCI Road World Championships Road Race
    1st National Track Championships (Team pursuit)
    1st Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
    3rd National Road Race Championships

### 1992

    1st National Road Race Championships
    National Track Championship
       1st Individual pursuit
       2nd Points race
    1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale

### 1993

    1st UCI Road World Championships Road Race
    1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
    1st National Road Race Championships
    2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin

### 1997

    1st National Time Trial Championships
    National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       2nd Points race
    1st Overall Boekel
       1st Stages 1 & 3

### 1998

    1st UCI Road World Championships Time Trial
    National Road Championships
       1st Road Race
       1st Time Trial
    National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Points race
    1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
       1st Stages 1 & 3
    1st Parel van de Veluwe
    1st Omloop der Kempen
    2nd Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
       1st Stage 1
    2nd UCI Road World Championships Road Race
    2nd UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)

### 1999

    1st UCI Road World Championships Time Trial
    National Road Championships
       1st Road Race
       1st Time Trial
    National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Points race
    1st Overall Boels Rental Ladies Tour
       1st Stages 2 & 7
    1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
       1st Stages 2 & 3
    1st Overall Greenery International
       1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
    1st Overall Boekel
       1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 2
    1st Damesronde van Drenthe
    1st Omloop van Kanaleneiland
    1st Omloop der Kempen
    2nd Rotterdam Tour

### 2000

    Olympic Games
       1st Road Race
       1st Time Trial
       1st Individual pursuit
       2nd Points race
    National Road Championships
       1st Time Trial
       2nd Road Race
    National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Points race
    1st Overall Emakumeen Bira
    1st Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
    1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
       1st Stages 1 & 2
    1st Overall Westfriese Dorpenomloop
       1st Prologue & Stage 1
    1st Overall Boekel
       1st Stages 1, 2a & 2b
    1st Ronde van het Ronostrand
    1st Omloop der Kempen
    1st Stages 1, 2 & 4 Giro d'Italia Femminile

### 2001

    1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
    1st National Time Trial Championships
    National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Points race
    1st Overall Ster van Zeeland
       1st Stages 2 & 3
    1st Overall Boekel
       1st Stages 2 & 3
    1st Acht van Chaam
    1st Egmond-Pier-Egmond
    1st Souvenir Magali Pache
    1st Profronde van Stiphout
    1st Profronde van Surhuisterveen
    1st Prologue Giro d'Italia Femminile
    1st Stage 1 Boels Rental Ladies Tour
    3rd Amstel Gold Race

### 2002

    1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
    National Road Championships
       1st Time Trial
       2nd Road Race
    National Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Points race
    1st Overall RaboSter Zeeuwsche Eilanden
       1st Stages 1, 2 & 3a
    1st Overall Westfriese Dorpenomloop
       1st Stages 1 & 2
    1st Amstel Gold Race
    1st Damesronde van Drenthe
    1st Acht van Chaam
    1st Egmond-Pier-Egmond
    1st Profronde van Stiphout,

### 2003

    1st UCI Track Cycling World Championships (Individual Pursuit)
    1st Overall Boekel
       1st Stage 3
    1st Omloop van Borsele
    2nd National Time Trial Championships
    World Hour record

### 2004

    Olympic Games
       1st Time Trial
       3rd Individual pursuit
    1st National Road Race Championships
    1st Ronde van Gelderland
    1st Omloop der Kempen
    1st Profronde van Stiphout
    1st Acht van Chaam

## Personal life

Van Moorsel married former track cyclist Michael Zijlaard in October 1995. They have a daughter.