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Full name | Simon Lien Andreassen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Odense, Denmark | 30 September 1997|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Cross-Country Mountain bike | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Simon Lien Andreassen (born 30 September 1997) is a Danish male cyclist competing in cyclo-cross and mountainbike. He competed in the men's under-23 event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder. [1] [2]
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