# Jolanda Neff

Jolanda Neff (born 5 January 1993) is a Swiss cyclist, who primarily rides in the cross-country cycling and cyclo-cross disciplines, for the Cannondale Factory Racing team. She won the gold medal in the women's cross-country event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

## Career

She was the overall winner of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in 2014 and 2015. She was triple Under-23 Mountain Bike World Champion (2012, 2013 and 2014). At the 2017 UCI World Championships in Cairns she became the elite world champion.
In June 2015, she won the first gold medal for Switzerland in the women's cross country event at the European Games in Baku. Later the same month, she went on to win the Swiss National Road Race Championships.
Neff won the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in 2016 and Mountain Bike XCO World Championship in 2017. She also won the European Mountain Bike Championships in August 2018 at Cathkin Braes, just outside of Glasgow.
In October 2018, Neff announced that she would join the new Lidl–Trek team for 2019 in road racing, and Trek Factory Racing in mountain biking and cyclo-cross.
In July 2021, Neff won the gold medal in the women's cross-country event at the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics. Her victory, along with her teammates Linda Indergand and Sina Frei winning the bronze and silver medals, marked the first all-Swiss Olympic podium since 1936 and the first time a nation has won all three medals in a cycling event since 1904.

## Personal life

Since 2018, she has been in a relationship with American downhill mountain biking racer Luca Shaw.

## Career achievements
### Major results
#### Cyclo-cross
##### 2017–2018

    EKZ CrossTour
       1st Bern
       1st Meilen
       2nd Eschenbach

##### 2018–2019

    1st National Championships
    DVV Trophy
       1st Baal
    EKZ CrossTour
       1st Meilen

##### 2019–2020

    1st Waterloo
    UCI World Cup
       2nd Waterloo

##### 2021–2022

    1st Waterloo

#### Road

Source:

##### 2015

    1st Road race, National Championships
    4th Giro dell'Emilia
    6th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
    9th Road race, UCI World Championships

##### 2016

    1st Overall Tour de Pologne
       1st Points classification
       1st Active rider classification
       1st Stages 1 & 3
    3rd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
    8th Road race, Olympic Games
    10th La Flèche Wallonne

##### 2018

    1st Road race, National Championships

##### 2020

    4th Time trial, National Championships

##### 2021

    4th Overall Tour de Suisse

##### 2022

    5th Overall Tour de Suisse

##### 2023

    1st Overall Trofeo Ponente in Rosa
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 3 & 4

##### 2024

    5th Overall Trofeo Ponente in Rosa

#### Mountain bike

Source:

##### 2012

    UCI World Championships
       1st Under-23 cross-country
       2nd Eliminator
    1st Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
    National Championships
       1st Eliminator
       1st Under-23 cross-country
    BMC Racing Cup
       2nd Basel–Muttenz
    3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup

##### 2013

    UCI World Championships
       1st Under-23 cross-country
       2nd Eliminator
    1st Eliminator, National Championships
    2nd Team relay, UEC European Championships
    BMC Racing Cup
       3rd Gränichen

##### 2014

    UCI World Championships
       1st Under-23 cross-country
       2nd Team relay
    National Championships
       1st Cross-country
       2nd Eliminator
    1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Pietermaritzburg
       1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
       1st Méribel
       3rd Albstadt
    BMC Racing Cup
       1st Buchs
       1st Lugano–Tesserete
       1st Gränichen
       1st Lenzerheide
       1st Basel–Muttenz
    2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships

##### 2015

    UEC European Championships
       1st Cross-country
       2nd Marathon
    1st Cross-country, European Games
    1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Nové Město
       1st Albstadt
       1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
       2nd Windham
       2nd Trentino
    BMC Racing Cup
       1st Schaan
       1st Lugano–Tesserete
       1st Solothurn
       1st Gränichen

##### 2016

    1st Marathon, UCI World Championships
    UEC European Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Team relay
    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    1st Overall Swiss Epic (with Alessandra Keller)

##### 2017

    UCI World Championships
       1st Cross-country
       1st Team relay
    1st Cross-country, National Championships

##### 2018

    1st Team relay, UCI World Championships
    1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships
    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Albstadt
       3rd Val di Sole
    Swiss Bike Cup
       1st Gränichen
       1st Andermatt
       2nd Schaan
    1st Internacionales Chelva
    UCI XCC World Cup
       2nd Albstadt
       2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
       3rd Nové Město
       3rd La Bresse

##### 2019

    1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships
    UCI XCC World Cup
       1st Vallnord
       1st Val di Sole
       2nd Albstadt
       2nd Lenzerheide
       3rd Nové Město
    1st Tokyo 2020 Test Event
    2nd Cross-country, UCI World Championships
    2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Albstadt
       2nd Vallnord
       2nd Les Gets
       2nd Val di Sole

##### 2020

    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    Swiss Bike Cup
       2nd Leukerbad
    French Cup
       2nd Alpe d'Huez

##### 2021

    1st Cross-country, Olympic Games
    1st Cross-country, National Championships
    Internazionali d'Italia Series
       1st Andora
    2nd Copa Catalana Internacional BTT
    UCI XCC World Cup
       3rd Leogang
       3rd Lenzerheide

##### 2022

    1st Short track, National Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
       3rd Val di Sole
    UCI World Championships
       2nd Cross-country
       3rd Marathon
    3rd Overall UCI XCC World Cup
       1st Nové Město
       1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
       3rd Lenzerheide

##### 2023

    2nd Cross-country, National Championships
    2nd Haiming
    Swiss Bike Cup
       2nd Basel
       3rd Gränichen
    4th Cross-country, UEC European Championships
    UCI XCO World Cup
       4th Mont-Sainte-Anne
       5th Snowshoe

##### 2024

    Swiss Bike Cup
       2nd Gränichen
       2nd Rivera
    Shimano Super Cup
       2nd Banyoles
    UCI XCO World Cup
       5th Mairiporã

### Awards and honours

Between 2014 and 2019, Neff was named as the Swiss female cyclist of the year at the Swiss Cycling Awards [de]. She won the award for a seventh time in 2021, as all five Swiss female cyclists to ride, and win medals, at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Neff, Sina Frei, Linda Indergand, Marlen Reusser and Nikita Ducarroz – were recognised as joint winners.
Following her Olympic gold medal, a street in Thal was renamed as "Jolanda Neff Weg" in her honour in August 2021.