Rider Profile

Linda Melanie Villumsen

Team Virtu Cycling

Personal Details:

Nationality New Zealand

Date of birth 09/04/1985

Teams history:

2018 - Team Virtu Cycling
2017 - Team Veloconcept Women
2016 - UnitedHealthcare Women
2015 - UnitedHealthcare Women
2014 - Wiggle Honda Women's Pro Cycling team
2013 - Wiggle Honda
2012 - Orica-AIS
2011 - AA Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team
2010 - HTC Columbia Women
2009 - Team Columbia Highroad Women
2008 - Team Columbia Women
2007 - T-Mobile Professional Cycling
2006 - Buitenpoort - Flexpoint Team
2005 - Buitenpoort - Flexpoint Team

Biography:

Key Results

1st World Time Trial Championships 2015
1st Commonwealth Games Time Trial championships 2014
1st National Time Trial championships 2006, '08-09, '13
1st National Road Race championships 2008–09, '15

1st Route de France Féminine 2006, '13
1st Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen 2009
1st Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol 2012
1st Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche 2014

Grid List

Villumsen extends with Team Virtu

By Cycling News

Former TT world champ to focus on 2018 Commonwealth Games

Lepisto outnumbered but not outgunned for road race - Women's Worlds Shorts

By Daniel Benson, Stephen Farrand

Pirrone and Paternoster lead next Italian generation, French with cards to play, Villumsen to put bad TT behind her

World Championships: Villumsen flies under the radar ahead of women's time trial

By Daniel Benson

Former world champion's form on the rise in Bergen

Villumsen signs with Team VeloConcept - Women's news shorts

By Cycling News

Cordon-Ragot claims first QOM jersey in Women's Tour, Cromwell picks up the pieces for fifth

Olympic Games: Villumsen eyeing Rio success after London 2012 disappointment

By Sadhbh O'Shea

World Champion says time trial course is unlike anything she's ever seen before

New Zealand finalise 19-rider Rio Olympic squad

By Cycling News

George Bennett and Linda Villumsen named as road riders

Hitec, Liv-Plantur, UnitedHealthcare: 2015 Report Cards

By Laura Weislo

Underdog women's teams show themselves

Villumsen returns with UnitedHealthcare in 2016

By Cycling News

Five new signings and eight returning riders make up 13-woman roster

Best of the World Championships gallery

By Cycling News

The best photos from Richmond 2015

Startline quotes from the women's Worlds road race

By Cycling News

Prevot, Armitstead, Buchanan, Villumsen, Bronzini, Numainville, Wiles and Komanski

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