Danish cyclist

Villumsen (left) finished second in time trial at the 2013 World Championships. (Ellen van Dijk (center), Carmen Small (right))

Linda Melanie Villumsen Serup (born 9 April 1985) is a Danish-born road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's Team Team Virtu Cycling. Villumsen became a New Zealand citizen in 2009 and has ridden under a Kiwi licence from 2010.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Major results
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Born in Herning, Villumsen won the European under 23 time trial championship in 2006 and 2007.

She was Danish national champion in both road racing and time trialing in 2006, 2008 and 2009. In 2006, Cycling World named her their Cyclist of the Year.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she finished 5th in the women's road race and 13th in the time trial.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London she finished 18th in the road race and fourth in the time trial, missing out on a medal by less than two seconds.

Villumsen won the Route de France Féminine in 2006 and 2013.

From 2008 to 2014 she placed 10th, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, 3rd, 2nd and 9th in world championships time trials.

From 2012 to 2014 she placed 7th, 6th and 8th in world championships road races.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games she won the gold medal in the road time trial and placed 5th in the road race.

In September 2014 the UnitedHealthcare team announced that they had signed Villumsen for the 2015 season after two seasons with Wiggle–Honda.

In September 2015 Villumsen won the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia. Afterwards, her trade team, UnitedHealthcare, almost dropped her for riding her team issue New Zealand frame instead of her normal Wilier Cento Time Trial bike. The NZ team's bike, with its altered geometry, meant she could get much lower.

Villumsen is the only New Zealand senior cyclist to win an individual medal at the UCI Road World Championships.

Major results

20051st Albl*erdamDanish National Road Championships2nd Road race3rd Time trial2nd Overall Damesronde van Drenthe2nd New Zealand World Cup20061st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road ChampionshipsDanish National Road Championships1st Time trial1st Road race1st Overall La Route de France1st Omloop der Kempen1st Mountains cl*ification Damesronde van Drenthe2nd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden1st Stage 1 (ITT)2nd L'Heure D'Or Féminine3rd Individual pursuit, Danish National Track Championships9th Overall Holland Ladies Tour1st Young rider cl*ification20071st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships1st Stage 6 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin3rd Overall Holland Ladies Tour5th Overall Ema*een Bira10th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile2008Danish National Road Championships1st Time trial1st Road race1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT5th Road race, Olympic Games8th Overall Iurreta-Ema*een Bira9th Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships2009Danish National Road Championships1st Time trial1st Road race1st Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen1st Stage 31st Trofeo Costa Etrusca – GP Comuni Santa Luce — Castellina Marittima2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT3rd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships3rd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden1st Stage 1 (ITT)7th Overall Holland Ladies Tour8th Overall Gracia–Orlová8th Tour de Berne10th Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin1st Prologue20102nd Time trial, Commonwealth GamesNew Zealand National Road Championships2nd Road race3rd Time trial2nd Chrono Gatineau2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT3rd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau6th Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand20112nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT4th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen9th GP Ciudad de Valladolid20121st Overall Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol1st Stage 2b (ITT)1st Stage 3 (ITT) Ema*een Euskal BiraUCI Road World Championships2nd Team time trial3rd Time trial7th Road race2nd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT3rd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine3rd GP Stad Roeselare4th Time trial, Olympic Games5th Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs7th Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand1st Stage 58th Overall Holland Ladies Tour10th Open de Suède Vårgårda20131st Time trial, New Zealand National Road Championships1st Overall La Route de France1st Stage 7UCI Road World Championships2nd Time trial6th Road race5th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen1st Active rider cl*ification8th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche1st Mountains cl*ification1st Combination cl*ification1st Prologue2014Commonwealth Games1st Time trial5th Road race1st Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche1st Stage 2 (ITT)New Zealand National Road Championships2nd Time trial2nd Road race8th La Flèche Wallonne FéminineUCI Road World Championships8th Road race9th Time trial20151st Time trial, UCI Road World ChampionshipsNew Zealand National Road Championships1st Road race2nd Time trial5th Overall Tour of the Gila7th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race20161st Le Race2nd Overall Joe Martin Stage Race1st Prologue5th Overall Tour of the Gila6th Time trial, Olympic Games20175th Overall Holland Ladies Tour6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships20182nd Time trial, Commonwealth Games10th Overall Women's Herald Sun Tour

References

External links

• Sports portal

• Linda Villumsen at ProCyclingStats