Jolanda Neff
Swiss cyclist (born 1993)
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Jolanda Neff (born 5 January 1993) is a Swiss cyclist, who primarily rides in the cross-country cycling and cyclo-cross disciplines, for the Cannondale Factory Racing team.[2] She won the gold medal in the women's cross-country event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Altstätten, Switzerland
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| Full name | Jolanda Neff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 January 1993 Altstätten, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Cannondale Factory Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2012 | Wheeler–IXS Team (off-road) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Giant Pro XC Team (off-road) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Rabobank-Liv Giant (road) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Stöckli-Pro-Team (off-road) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Servetto Footon (road) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Kross Racing Team (off-road) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2024 | Trek Factory Racing (off-road) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2024 | Trek–Segafredo (road)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025- | Cannondale Factory Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- 2015–2016
- 1st Madiswil
- 2017–2018
- EKZ CrossTour
- 1st Bern
- 1st Meilen
- 2nd Eschenbach
- 2018–2019
- 1st
National Championships - DVV Trophy
- 1st Baal
- EKZ CrossTour
- 1st Meilen
- UCI World Cup
- 5th Namur
- 2019–2020
- 1st Waterloo
- UCI World Cup
- 2nd Waterloo
- 2021–2022
- 1st Waterloo
- UCI World Cup
- 4th Waterloo
- 2022–2023
- 1st Hendersonville I
- 2025–2026
- 1st Hendersonville I
- 1st Hendersonville II
- 2nd National Championships
- UCI World Cup
- 5th Namur
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
- 1st
- 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
- 1st
- 2024
- 5th Overall Trofeo Ponente in Rosa
Mountain bike
Source: [11]
- 2012
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
Under-23 cross-country - 2nd
Eliminator
- 1st
- 1st
Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships - National Championships
- 1st Eliminator
- 1st Under-23 cross-country
- 1st
- 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
- 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
- 1st
- National Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 2nd Eliminator
- 1st
- 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
- 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
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- 1st
Overall Swiss Epic (with Alessandra Keller) - 2017
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Team relay
- 1st
- 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 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
- 2nd
- 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
- 4th Cross-country, UEC European Championships
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 4th Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 5th Snowshoe
- 2024
- Swiss Bike Cup
- Shimano Super Cup
- 2nd Banyoles
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 5th Mairiporã
- 2025
- Shimano Super Cup
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Rivera
- Internazionali d'Italia Series
- 1st Dornbirn
- Ötztaler Festival
- 3rd Haiming
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 4th Leogang
Awards and honours
Between 2014 and 2019, Neff was named as the Swiss female cyclist of the year at the Swiss Cycling Awards.[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]
