Jolanda Neff
Neff in 2018
Personal information
Full nameJolanda Neff
Born (1993-01-05) 5 January 1993 (age 31)
Altstätten, Switzerland
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight53 kg (117 lb)
Team information
Current teamTrek Factory Racing
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Professional teams
2012Wheeler–IXS Team (off-road)
2013–2014Giant Pro XC Team (off-road)
2013Rabobank–Liv Giant (road)
2014–2016Stöckli-Pro-Team (off-road)
2015–2016Servetto Footon (road)
2017–2018Kross Racing Team (off-road)
2018–Trek Factory Racing (off-road)
2019Trek–Segafredo (road)[1]
Major wins
Cyclo-cross
National Championships (2019)
Mountain bike
Olympic Games XC (2021)
World XC Championships (2017)
World Marathon Championships (2016)
European XC Championships
(2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)
National XC Championships
(2014, 2016–2018, 2020, 2021)
Road

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2015, 2018)
Medal record
Women's mountain bike racing
Representing  Switzerland
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Cross-country
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Laissac Marathon
Gold medal – first place 2017 Cairns Cross-country
Gold medal – first place 2017 Cairns Team relay
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lenzerheide Team relay
Gold medal – first place 2019 Mont-Sainte-Anne Team relay
Silver medal – second place 2014 Hafjell Team relay
Silver medal – second place 2019 Mont-Sainte-Anne Cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2022 Les Gets Cross-country
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2014 Overall Cross-country
Gold medal – first place 2015 Overall Cross-country
Gold medal – first place 2018 Overall Cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2019 Overall Cross-country
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Chies d'Alpago Cross-country
Gold medal – first place 2016 Huskvarna Cross-country
Gold medal – first place 2016 Huskvarna Team relay
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow Cross-country
Gold medal – first place 2019 Brno Cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2013 Berna Team relay
Silver medal – second place 2014 St. Wendel Cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2015 Singen Marathon
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Baku Cross-country
World Under-23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Saalfelden Cross-country
Gold medal – first place 2013 Pietermaritzburg Cross-country
Gold medal – first place 2014 Hafjell Cross-country
European Under-23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Moscow Cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2014 St. Wendel Cross-country
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Dohňany Cross-country

Jolanda Neff (born 5 January 1993) is a Swiss cyclist, who primarily rides in the cross-country cycling and cyclo-cross disciplines, for the Trek Factory Racing team.[2] 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.[3][4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7]

In July 2021, Neff won the gold medal in the women's cross-country event at the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics.[8] 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.[8]

Personal life

Since 2018, she has been in a relationship with American downhill mountain biking racer Luca Shaw.[9]

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: [10]

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

Mountain bike

Source: [11]

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

Awards and honours

Between 2014 and 2019, Neff was named as the Swiss female cyclist of the year at the Swiss Cycling Awards [de].[12][13] 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.[14]

Following her Olympic gold medal, a street in Thal was renamed as "Jolanda Neff Weg" in her honour in August 2021.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Trek-Segafredo announce official 2019 rosters for men and women". Trek Bicycle Corporation. Intrepid Corporation. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Jolanda Neff". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Neff wins cross country World Cup in Meribel: Dahle Flesjaa and Ferrand Prevot take second and third". Cycling News. 24 August 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Langvad solos to Val di Sole victory: Neff defends World Cup title with second place". 23 August 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  5. ^ "Cycling Mountain Bike". Baku 2015. Archived from the original on 10 September 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2015.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ "Mountain Biking – Neff earns runaway European cross-country win". Channel News Asia. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Neff signs with Trek Factory Racing". cyclingnews.com. 24 October 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  8. ^ a b "First 'Swiss podium' at Olympics since 1936".
  9. ^ Germann, Mathias (27 July 2021). "Er hat Jolanda so stark gemacht" [He made Jolanda so strong]. Blick (in German). Ringier. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  10. ^ "Jolanda Neff". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  11. ^ "All race results from Jolanda Neff". XCODATA. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  12. ^ "Jolanda Neff and Nino Schurter scoop Swiss awards". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 9 November 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2023. For both riders, it was their fifth consecutive win at the Swiss Cycling awards [...]
  13. ^ Weber, Balz (4 November 2019). "Swiss Cycling Awards: Neff holt sechste Auszeichnung in Serie" [Swiss Cycling Awards: Neff wins sixth award in a row]. Ride (in German). Swiss Sports Publishing GmbH. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  14. ^ Weber, Balz (9 December 2021). "Swiss Cycling erteilt fünf Frauen eine besondere Ehre" [Swiss Cycling gives a special honor to five women]. Ride (in German). Swiss Sports Publishing GmbH. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  15. ^ Hirtl, Rudolf (18 August 2021). "Thal würdigt seine Olympiasiegerin: Jolanda Neff Weg mit Sekt und ein paar Tränen eingeweiht" [Thal honors its Olympic champion: Jolanda Neff inaugurated with champagne and a few tears]. St. Galler Tagblatt (in German). St. Galler Tagblatt AG. Retrieved 9 January 2023.

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