Jenny Rissveds

Jenny Rissveds (born 6 June 1994) is a Swedish cross-country mountainbike rider.[1] She won the gold medal in the under-23 mountainbike race at the World Championships in 2016.[2]

Jenny Rissveds

Rissveds in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Jenny Rissveds
Born	(1994-06-06) 6 June 1994 Falun, Sweden
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Team information
Current team	Team 31
Discipline	Mountain bike racing
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cross-country
Major wins
Cyclo-cross National Championships (2016, 2017) Mountain Bike Olympic Games XC (2016) National XC Championships (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) Road One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2022) National Time Trial Championships (2023)
Medal record Women's mountain bike racing Representing  Sweden Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Cross-country European Championships 2013 Bern Eliminator World Under-23 Championships 2016 Nové Město Cross-country 2015 Vallnord Cross-country European Under-23 Championships 2013 Bern Cross-country 2016 Huskvarna Cross-country European Junior Championships 2012 Moscow Cross-country

Born in Falun, Rissveds won the gold medal in women's cross country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[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.

In July 2017, she was awarded the Victoria Scholarship.[4]

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.[5]