- Adrie Visser
Infobox Cyclist
ridername = Adrie Visser
fullname = Adriana Visser
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dateofbirth = birth date and age|1983|10|19
country = NED
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currentteam = AA Cycling Team
discipline = Road and track
role = Rider
ridertype = Sprinting specialist
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amateuryears =
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proyears = 2004
2005-
proteams = Farm Frites-Hartol
AA Cycling Team
Team DSB Bank
majorwins = World Cup Road: (Ronde van Drenthe 2007),
World Cup Scratch Race: (2004 Sydney, 2005 Manchester)
updated =April 16 ,2007 Adriana 'Adrie' Visser (born
October 19 ,1983 inHoorn ) is a Dutch track and road racer who lives inWieringerwerf .Visser started her professional career in 2001, when she finished second at the Dutch road race championship. She came fifth in the time trial. In track cycling she won her first national titles, becoming Dutch champion in the 500m time trial and sprint. She also won a silver medal in the
points race . At the world championships inTrexlertown ,Pennsylvania , USA, she was seventh in the 500m time trial and eighth in the sprint and individual pursuit.She won a bronze medal at the
2003 World Track Championships inStuttgart . In the same year she won the Dutch points, scratch and individual pursuit championships for the first time. In May 2004 she won her first World Cup meeting inSydney , where she won the scratch before finishing 10th at the world championships inMelbourne a week later. Her first achievement in road cycling was the blue jersey for sprints in theEumakumeen Bira in June 2004. A month later she won her first road race inAlblasserdam .Back on the track that year she won another three national titles (points, individual pursuit and scratch). She also took part in the
2004 Summer Olympics participating in the points race and finishing 11th.At the world championships in Manchester, England, in 2005, she finished fourth in the scratch event. She was fifth in the points race and seventh in the pursuit. In June on the road she won the
Omloop Middag-Humsterland ,Profronde van Stiphout and a race inDalen . These brought her into the national team for the world road championship for the first time, finishing 84th inMadrid . She won her second World Cup track event inManchester where she won the scratch again before defending her three national Dutch titles.2006 started well when in January she won
Egmond-Pier-Egmond . In March she won the road race inOud Vossemeer . She finished in the top 10 in both the road race and the time trial championship (7th and 9th). BetweenJuly 15 andAugust 1 she won four road races; (Ochten ),Barendrecht ,Alblasserdam andSurhuisterveen ). Dutch national coachEgon van Kessel selected her for the World championship again following these results.On 31 March 2007, Visser took the bronze medal in the scratch race at the UCI Track World Championships in
Palma de Mallorca . Two weeks later, she won her first big UCI Women's Road World Cup race, theRonde van Drenthe (Netherlands).Since 1 January 2007, Visser has belonged to the Dutch
Team DSB Bank withMarianne Vos and others.External links
* [http://www.adrievisser.nl Adrie Visser (website)]
* [http://www.dsbcycling.nl Team DSB Bank]
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