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Full name | Jenny Rissveds | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Falun, Sweden | 6 June 1994|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Team 31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Mountain bike racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Cross-country | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Jenny Rissveds (born 6 June 1994) is a Swedish cross-country mountainbike rider. [1] She won the gold medal in women's cross country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. [2]
Rissveds won the gold medal in the under-23 mountainbike race at the World Championships in 2016. [3]
In March 2017, Rissveds rode the eight-day Absa Cape Epic stage race in South Africa for the first time. Together with manager Thomas Frischknecht they won the Mixed category comfortably after covering the 641 km route.
After suffering from mental health issues, Jenny took an hiatus from competing most of the 2017 and the 2018 season. [4]
In July 2017, she was awarded the Victoria Scholarship. [5]
On 11 August 2019, she won her first world cup victory post-her 2016 Summer Olympics gold medal, when winning a World Cup competition in Lenzerheide in Switzerland. [6]
Rissveds won her second olympic medal, a bronze, at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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