Hobbies: sports, music, my cats, reading, art, surgery
Cycling teams: B&E Koopmans Cyclingteam
Trainer: Kees van der Wereld
Ambition: Get the maximum out of my body.
Road racing: to have fun with my team, defending my world title for medical and paramedical professions.
Cycle cross: reach top 15 ranking in world cups, and UCI overall ranking of top 30. My biggest aim this season is to win the Austrian championship.
Motivation: I want to fully recover from my accident in 2005 where I broke my back. I also love to show that winning is not a question of age but of fitness and mental strength.
Motto: The biggest enemy of life is fear


Results 2006:

1st place:

- World champion (medical and paramedical profession) 2006
Track 500m sprint
- World champion (medical and paramedical profession) 2006
Track 2000m persuit
- World champion (medical and paramedical profession) 2006
MTB race
- Garborkriket Rundt 2006
International MTB marathon Norway
- Norwegian cup, Norway 2006
International stage road race, last stage,
- Regional champion cyclocross north- and south Holland 2006
- National cyclocross competition Boxtel, Holland 2006
- U6 international stage race Sweden overal ranking 2007
- U6 prologue 2007
- World champion (medical and paramedical profession) 2007
Track 500m sprint
- World champion (medical and paramedical profession) 2007
Track 2000m persuit
- World champion (medical and paramedical profession) 2007
MTB race
- World champion (medical and paramedical profession) 2007
Time trial
- World champion (medical and paramedical profession) 2007
Road race
- Regional champion cyclocross north- and south Holland 2006

Elke Riedl