 Slappendel in 2014 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Slappy[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 February 1985 Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2004–2006 | Vrienden van het Platteland | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Team Flexpoint | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Cervélo TestTeam | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Bigla Pro Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | UnitedHealthcare | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
| Open de Suède Vårgårda (2012) National Road Race Championships (2014) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Iris Slappendel (born 18 February 1985) is a Dutch former road racing cyclist.
She won the 2012 Open de Suède Vårgårda road race, the penultimate event in the 2012 UCI Women's Road World Cup.[2] 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.[3]
In September 2014 Slappendel announced that she would join the Bigla Pro Cycling Team for the 2015 season.[4] 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.[3]
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.[5] Since retiring, Slappendel has continued her career as a designer and started her own business that designs and manufactures cycling apparel.[6] Having previously represented female riders in the UCI Athlete's Commission from 2015 to 2017,[7] Slappendel now dedicates her time to The Cyclists' Alliance as executive director.[8]
Road race, National Road Championships
