Jaime Nielsen

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BirthnameJaime Nielsen
Born (1985-09-03) 3 September 1985 (age 40)[1]
Hamilton, New Zealand[1]
Disciplines
RoleRider
Jaime Nielsen
Personal information
Birth nameJaime Nielsen
Born (1985-09-03) 3 September 1985 (age 40)[1]
Hamilton, New Zealand[1]
Cycling career
Team information
Disciplines
RoleRider
Professional team
2015–2016BePink–La Classica
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Time Trial Championships (2014, 2015, 2017)
Sport
Sport
ClubWaikato Rowing Club
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Women's rowing
World U23 Regatta
Gold medal – first place2004 PoznańBW4x
Women's track cycling
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2009 PruszkówTeam pursuit
Bronze medal – third place2011 ApeldoornTeam pursuit
Bronze medal – third place2017 Hong KongTeam pursuit

Jaime Nielsen (born 3 September 1985) is a New Zealand track and road cyclist, and a former representative rower.

From 2003 to 2007, Nielsen competed with the national rowing team. She became world champion at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Poznań, Poland, in 2004 with the U23 women's quadruple sculls with fellow members Bess Halley, Darnelle Timbs and Fiona Paterson.[2]

Despite only taking up cycling in 2007, at the team pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships she won silver in 2009 and bronze in 2011.[3]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's team pursuit for the New Zealand team which placed her 5th and set a national record of 3:18.514. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she finished 4th in the Women's team pursuit. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she finished eighth, in Women's team pursuit.[4]

Nielsen won the New Zealand National Time Trial Championships three times and was second five times.[5][6] In 2017 she broke the sea level world record for the one-hour ride in Cambridge. She clocked 47.791kms in the hour which was 909m more than the previous world's best at sea level.[7]

Major results

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