Kirsten Wild

Wild at the 2018 Women's Tour de Yorkshire
Personal information
Full name	Kirsten Carlijn Wild
Born	(1982-10-15) 15 October 1982 (age 41) Almelo, Netherlands
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter, Classics specialist (Road) Endurance (Track)
Professional teams
2004–2005	@Home Cycling Team
2006–2008	AA-Drink Cycling Team
2009–2010	Cervélo TestTeam
2011–2012	AA Drink–leontien.nl
2013–2014	Argos–Shimano
2015–2016	Team Hitec Products
2017	Cylance Pro Cycling
2018	Wiggle High5
2019–2021	WNT–Rotor Pro Cycling[2][3]
Major wins
Stage races Ladies Tour of Qatar (2009, 2010, 2013, 2014) Tour du Grand Montréal (2009) Tour of Chongming Island (2014) UCI Women's World Cup Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT (2009, 2010) Open de Suède Vårgårda (2010) Tour of Chongming Island World Cup (2014) One-day races & classics World Track Champion (Scratch Race) (2015, 2018, 2020) Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2008) GP Stad Roeselare (2009, 2010)
Medal record Women's track cycling Representing  Netherlands Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Omnium World Championships 2015 Yvelines Scratch 2018 Apeldoorn Points race 2018 Apeldoorn Scratch 2018 Apeldoorn Omnium 2019 Pruszków Omnium 2019 Pruszków Madison 2020 Berlin Scratch 2020 Berlin Madison 2021 Roubaix Madison 2016 London Scratch 2017 Hong Kong Omnium 2018 Apeldoorn Madison 2019 Pruszków Scratch 2011 Apeldoorn Omnium 2015 Yvelines Omnium 2017 Hong Kong Points race 2019 Pruszków Points race 2021 Roubaix Points race European Games 2019 Minsk Omnium 2019 Minsk Scratch 2019 Minsk Madison European Championships 2013 Apeldoorn Points race 2016 Yvelines Elimination race 2016 Yvelines Points race 2017 Berlin Elimination race 2018 Glasgow Omnium 2018 Glasgow Scratch 2019 Apeldoorn Elimination race 2019 Apeldoorn Omnium 2013 Apeldoorn Omnium 2015 Grenchen Scratch 2016 Yvelines Omnium 2017 Berlin Omnium 2011 Apeldoorn Omnium 2016 Yvelines Scratch 2016 Yvelines Madison 2017 Berlin Madison 2018 Glasgow Madison 2019 Apeldoorn Madison Women's road cycling World Championships Representing  Netherlands 2016 Doha Road race Representing AA Drink–leontien.nl 2012 Valkenburg Team time trial Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 0 1 UCI Track Cycling World Championships 9 4 5 UEC European Track Championships 8 4 6 European Games 2 1 0 UCI Road World Championships 0 1 1 Total 19 10 13

Kirsten Carlijn Wild (born 15 October 1982) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2021,^[4] for eight professional teams. During her track cycling career, Wild rode at the Summer Olympic Games in 2012, 2016 and 2020, winning a bronze medal at the latter Games, in the omnium. She won eighteen medals including nine golds at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships,^[5] and eighteen medals including eight golds at the UEC European Track Championships. Wild also took over 100 victories in road racing,^[6] and won two medals at the UCI Road World Championships.

Career

At the 2012 London Olympics Wild finished sixth in the omnium, and was a member of the Dutch team that finished sixth in the team pursuit (together with Ellen van Dijk, Amy Pieters and Vera Koedooder).^[1]

After two seasons with Team Hitec Products, in September 2016 Cylance Pro Cycling announced that Wild would join them for the 2017 season.^[7]

In October 2017, one day after the 2017 UEC European Track Championships in Berlin where Wild won gold at the elimination race, Wiggle High5 announced that Wild would join them for the 2018 season.^[8] She then joined WNT–Rotor Pro Cycling in 2019.^[9]

On 3 August 2019, after coming first in the RideLondon Classique, she was disqualified after her sudden change of direction before the finish line resulted in a crash involving several riders.^[10]

Wild competed at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the madison, where she and Pieters finished fourth after crashing during the race, and the omnium, where she took the bronze medal. After taking over 100 wins on the road, Wild retired from road racing following the Holland Ladies Tour in August 2021.^[6] Following this she returned to the track before ending her career at the end of the year, racing in the European Championships, the World Championships (where she and Pieters won gold in the madison for the third consecutive year),^[11] and the Champions League.^[4][12]

Career achievements

Major results

Road

Classics results timeline

Track

National records

Wild was the last three times part of the 3000 m team pursuit squad when they established a new Dutch national record. She is together with Ellen van Dijk and Vera Koedooder the current national record holder, with a time of 3:20.013 (53.996 km/h) established at the 2012 Summer Olympics on 4 August 2012. After the 2011–12 track cycling season the UCI changed the discipline into a 4000 m team pursuit with four riders.

Time	Speed (km/h)	Cyclists	Event	Location of race	Date	Ref
3:23.179	53.155	Ellen van Dijk Kirsten Wild Vera Koedooder	2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics – Round 4 (Qualifying)	Manchester	18 February 2011	[13]
3:21.550	53.584	Ellen van Dijk Kirsten Wild Vera Koedooder	2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup – Round 1	Astana	4 November 2011	[14]
3:20.013	53.996	Ellen van Dijk Kirsten Wild Vera Koedooder	2012 Summer Olympics (first round)	London	4 August 2012	[15]