Rider Profile
Eleonora van Dijk
Lidl-Trek Women
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2024 - Lidl-Trek Women
- 2023 - Lidl-Trek Women
- 2022 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2021 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2020 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2019 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2018 - Team Sunweb Women
- 2017 - Team Sunweb Women
- 2016 - Boels Dolmans Cycling Team
- 2015 - Boels Dolmans Cycling Team
- 2014 - Boels Dolmans Cycling Team
- 2012 - Team Specialized - Lululemon
- 2011 - HTC Highroad Women
- 2010 - HTC Columbia Women
- 2009 - Vanderkitten Racing
- 2009 - Team Columbia Highroad Women
- 2008 - Vrienden Van Het Platteland
- 2007 - Vrienden Van Het Platteland
- 2006 - Vrienden Van Het Platteland
Biography:
Ellen van Dijk was born on February 11, 1987, in Harmelen, Netherlands.
Van Dijk has been competing for 18 seasons in professional cycling, having started her career with Vrienden van het Platteland in 2006. She then moved to Team Columbia in 2009, where she stayed for five seasons through its title sponsors HTC-Highroad and Specialized-lululemon until 2013. Van Dijk then joined Boels Dolmans from 2014-16, followed by Team Sunweb for 2017-18, and then joined Trek-Segafredo in 2019, where she is currently contracted through the end of 2024.
Among her crowning achievements, Van Dijk has won the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships three times; 2013 and 2021-2022, along with the team time trial world titles in 2012-13 and 2016-17. She is also the reigning UCI Hour Record holder extending the distance by more than 800m when she set a new mark of 49.254km in Grenchen in 2022.
Van Dijk is one of the most experienced and reliable domestiques in professional cycling and an all-round versatile athlete with victories at the Tour of Flanders and the European Championships while also winning overall titles at stage races Ladies Tour of Qatar, Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour, Healthy Ageing Tour and Challenge by La Vuelta.
Key Results
1st time trial World Champion 2013, 2021, 2022
1st team time trial World Champion 2012-13, 2016-17
1st Scratch Race World Champion 2008
European road race champion 2021
European time trial champion 2016-19
1st overall Ladies Tour of Qatar 2011
1st overall Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour 2012-13
1st overall Healthy Ageing Tour 2013, 2016-17, 2021-22
1st overall Holland Ladies Tour 2013
1st overall Challenge by La Vuelta 2018
1st overall Baloise Ladies Tour 2022
1st overall Gracia-Orlová 2013
1st Tour of Flanders 2014
1st Sparkassen Giro 2010
1st Omloop van Borsele 2012
1st Le Samyn des Dames 2013
1st Chrono Champenois 2013
Dutch National Time Trial Champion 2007, '12-13
Open de Suede Vargarda TTT 2011-13
Related Articles
'It's time to go back to racing' - Ellen van Dijk returns to competition in Spain
By Kirsten Frattini published
News 'It’s all about easing into it again, getting back into the peloton, getting that race feeling back and being a part of the team,' says former time trial world champion
'If family life doesn't suffer I'll continue for longer' – Ellen van Dijk on return from childbirth
By James Moultrie published
News Dutchwoman eyes Olympic medal at Paris 2024, doesn't rule out another go at the hour record
'A whole different ball game' - Teutenberg sculpts Lidl-Trek future with young talent
By Dan Challis published
Insight Team director discusses art of developing five new 18 year old riders while steering clear of expectations that 'crack them with the pressure'
Ellen van Dijk - Leading by example
By Ellen van Dijk published
Blog 'I have the chance to show the world how normal it should be to perform at a top level as a mother'
Ellen van Dijk announces pregnancy, targets racing return at 2024 Olympics
By Kirsten Frattini published
News 'It has always been our wish to start a family' says time trial World Champion
Ellen van Dijk and the last pieces of the career puzzle
By Alasdair Fotheringham published
Interview Triple World Time Trial Champion on her legacy, goals and 'staying relaxed'
Ellen van Dijk's time trial bike may be the most stunning we've ever seen
By Josh Croxton published
pro bike World TT champion and Hour Record holder gets new Trek Speed Concept in bling chrome finish
Ellen van Dijk crushes competition at Chrono des Nations
By Patrick Fletcher published
Results Kononenko and Neben round out podium more than a minute down
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Nathan Haas blog: We need to talk about the Unbound mud pit
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Ellen van Dijk - Leading by example
'I have the chance to show the world how normal it should be to perform at a top level as a mother' -
Rukhsar Habibzai - The day I left home
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