Leontien van Moorsel

Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel, born on 22 March 1970, is a Dutch retired racing cyclist who dominated the sport in the 1990s and early 2000s. She won four gold medals at the Olympic Games and held the women's hour record from 2003 until 2015, with 46.065 kilometres set in Mexico City. She won the Tour Feminin twice in the first half of the 1990s, left cycling in 1994 with anorexia nervosa and returned to win the time trial at the 1998 World Championships. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney she won the road race, the time trial and the 3 kilometre pursuit, the first woman to win golds in two separate disciplines at one Games, and she defended her time trial title in 2004, two days after a crash in the road race. She retired after those Games and later became director of the Women's Amstel Gold Race.