Ellen van Dijk



Mary Eleanor "Ellen" van Dijk ( Harmelen , February 111987 ) is a Dutchprofessional cyclist riding for Team Specialized lululemon and specializes in the time trial . Until 2012 she was also active as a track cyclist . Van Dijk's four times world champion. Her first world was in part scratch on the track in 2008 on the way she became world champion in 2012 and 2013 in the team time trial and in the individual time trial in 2013.

Van Dijk began her athletic career as a skater and rode as a junior at the national level. In the beginning, she cycled in summer training for skating. Since she had a lot of success with bikes however, she decided in 2007, after five-time national champion to have become entirely with skates stop. In addition to her world titles, she was twice European champion time trial, twice European champion on the track and won six World Cup races. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she came out in three disciplines. She helped Marianne Vos in winning the gold medal in the road race, was eighth in the individual tijrit and sixth in the team pursuit.



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[ hide ]  *1 Personal life  ==Personal life [ edit] == Ellen van Dijk grew up in Harmelen , Utrecht, with her ​​two brothers and her parents. [2]  In addition to skating and cycling Van Dijk did when she was young to volleyball and gymnastics .[2]  She passed her VWO diploma at the Minkema College in 2005 and moved in 2006 to Amsterdam, where she still lives. She earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology at the Free University of Amsterdam in 2011. [3 ] [4]  Van Dijk has temporarily stopped her master Human Movement Sciences. [4] ==Career [ edit] == ===Skating [ Edit] === Ellen van Dijk began long track . She skated from an early age and became a member of the local ice skating when she was eight years old. In between the ages of twelve and twenty years she trained almost every day in the winter on the Vechtsebanen in Utrecht, where she continues the track record in the 5000m in his hands. [5]  Van Dijk made ​​a total of five times on the Dutch Championships for juniors, with the best performance twice a tenth place in the overall standings and fourth in the 3000m in 2005. [6 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-biografie_7-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  When Van Dijk in 2007 was invited to a selection for skating in the region of North Holland / Utrecht, she had to choose between skating and cycling, and she chose the latter. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-biografie_7-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] ===Juniors Time <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] === Ellen van Dijk won bronze at the World Championships in 2004 behind Marianne Vosand Marta Bastianelli .<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In the summer, Van Dijk, trained since she was ten years old, along with her ​​brothers and Marielle Kerste on the bike with the goal to achieve. Better on the ice She did every year in the round of Nieuwegein and was trained by Barend Verhagen. In 2002, when she was fifteen years old, she started riding national competitions. She drove that year her first Dutch championship where they finished fourth. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-biografie_7-2" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  The following year, Van Dijk was first Dutch champion on the road in the newcomers category. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-cyclingarchives_8-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  As a junior Van Dijk, in 2004 both Dutch champion time trial when on the road. During her debut at the World Championships in 2004 in Verona Van Dijk drove to the bronze in the road race. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-cyclingarchives_8-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  The following year, again won the national title in the time trial, but came second in the road race behind Marianne Vos. At the World Championships she was both the time trial and road race ride and finished seventh in both parts. ===Professional career <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] === ====2006 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ==== <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In her first years as a pro Van Dijk drove Friends of the Countryside . Both in the Tour Feminin en Limousin and in the Giro di Toscana Van Dijk won a stage. Halfway through the season, she broke her collarbone in a race and was able to participate include not Dutch championship. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  A month after she broke her collarbone, she was at the European Championships ( under 23 ), which in that year Valkenburg place tenth. Van Dijk won the time trial at the World Universities Championships and finished second in the road race. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  At the end of the season she was reserve for the world championships, but was not called. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  At the end of the year, Van Dijk had more time because she had stopped skating. She started track cycling and could train with the national selection. When NK track cycling they drove to the bronze in the individual pursuit . ====2007 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ==== <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Van Dijk won the first stage of the Tour of Chongming and finished second in the final standings. At the Dutch Championships time trial in Zaltbommel Van Dijk first became Dutch champion in the elite. At the European Championship time trial (under 23) she was fifth. She could make her debut at the World Championships time trial in the elite women in Stuttgart by her good time trial performance and ended there as 17th. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  At the end of the year she was Sportswoman of the Year of Woerden . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  The NK track cycling They won the national title in the individual pursuit for Marianne Vos and Kirsten Wild and was on the parts scratch and points race fourth. ====2008 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ==== Ellen van Dijk became world champion in scratch at the track cycling World Cup in 2008 .<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Due to the good performance in track cycling NK Van Dijk the last two World Cup races of the season 2007-2008 was driving. Although she had missed two World Cup races she could still qualify for individual pursuit at the Beijing Olympics . In Los Angeles and Copenhagen, she was fifth and fourth respectively. After she finished fifth at the track cycling World Cup in Manchester, she just had not collected enough points to qualify for the Olympics. She was on the UCI world ranking twelfth, where the first eleven are placed. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  The day after the individual pursuit revenged themselves by Van Dijk world champion to be on the scratch. With eight laps to go, they rode away from the peloton and soloed to the finish line. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  Later that year, Van Dijk was on the scratch also European champion, as well as the points race. In parts omnium individual pursuit and was second. Although Van Dijk at the national time trial just fell off the stage, it was time trial at the European Championships (under 23) European champion. She was not selected for the Olympic time trial in Beijing, because that would be too heavy for her. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16] ====2009 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ==== <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">The year 2009 started for Van Dijk with a concussion. On the job, Van Dijk was like several other rijdsters with a heavier resistance drive. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-volkskrant_17-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]  This worked well in the World Cup in February inCopenhagen, where she won the individual pursuit and was second in the points race. A month later, she could not live up to its reputation as a world champion at the World Cup track cyclingand her performances were even, without explanation, worse than in Copenhagen and the World Cup of the year. She reached any time on stage. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-volkskrant_17-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]  The road season Van Dijk was contracted by the commercial cycling Team Columbia-HTC . Although the name changed several times, she still drives for this team, which is now called Team Specialized lululemon. The cycling season began not happy with a broken collarbone after a fall in the Tour of Gelderland and she could not ride for six weeks. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-cyclingnews_18-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  Almost immediately after its rehabilitation, in July, she successfully defended her time trial title at the European Championships (under 23). <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-cyclingnews_18-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  Two weeks after she had at the World Championships time trial, hit Van Dijk NK track cycling on that fell early in the track season this year. She took took rest to prepare for the World Cup track cycling for. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19] ====2010 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ==== <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On the track cycling World Cup in Melbourne the Ellen failed to retrieve the finals. She was fifth in the individual pursuit, as well as the team pursuit. In addition, Van Dijk was incident on the points race and finished eighth. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]  On the way Van Dijk won the time trial in the Holland Ladies Tour and finished third in the overall standings. She won this year's Sparkassen Giro and was second at the World Cup Open Suede Vårgårda in Sweden . Van Dijk was not selected for the World Championships in Melbourne to take because of the hilly course. Part At the end of the year, at the Dutch track cycling Championships, she won five medals, including gold in the individual pursuit. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-cyclingarchives_8-2" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] ====2011 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ==== Ellen van Dijk in 2011, riding for HTC-Highroad .<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Van Dijk drove a national record times the track cycling World Cup in Manchester . At the track cycling World Cup a month later they drove three seconds slower and she finished fifth. She was also fifth in the individual pursuit. The road season started Van Dijk strongly in the Tour of Qatar in addition to the overall classification and a stage also points standings and young rider to win.Van Dijk was wearing her stage win and final victory to teammate Carla Swart, who arrived a few weeks earlier during a workout to life after she was hit by a truck. The prize money she earned went to the family. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]  have in the Netherlands, after races driven China and Spain, Van Dijk second at the national time trial championships in Veendam and thus placed himself before the world championships. A month later, she drove two World Cup races at Open de Suede Vårgårda in Sweden . They won the team time trial and was second in the road race. Leading up to the time trial at the World Van Dijk won the time trial in the Holland Ladies Tour . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]  In world sheep in Copenhagen drove van Dijk unhappy as one of the only riders on a completely wet track and finished sixth. She was the best Dutch and qualified for the Olympics in 2012. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24]  Because the road race world championship contained too many climbs, she was not selected for this drive.Back on the track recorded Van Dijk in November its fourth World Cup victory in Astana ( Kazakhstan ) in the team pursuit in a new Dutch record. The NK track cycling at the end of the year she successfully defended her national title in the individual pursuit and also Dutch champion in the Madison was joined by Kirsten Wild . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-cyclingarchives_8-3" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[25] ====2012 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ==== <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">After a knee injury and a few weeks of rest by a collision with a scooter , <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-Primero_2-2" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26]  Van Dijk won the time trial in the indiiduele Energiewacht Tour. Because she had collected enough bonus seconds in intermediate sprints she was second in the general classification. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-Wielerland_27-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  In Circulation Borsele Van Dijk won both the time trial and the road race. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-Wielerland_27-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  A few days later she started in Gracia-Orlova, where she won the prologue and a stage and also her teammate Evelyn Stevens helped to win. the final rankings Back in the Netherlands, Emmen, van Dijk was the second time in her career time trial. Dutch Champion Ellen van Dijk encouraged by Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and his family during the 2012 Summer Olympics .<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In the run up to the hilly time trials at the London Olympics and the World Van Dijk was more specific workout for better uphill drive and was going to deliberately lose weight. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-28" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28]  At the Olympic Games Van Dijk came alongside the individual time trial also out on the road race on the road and theteam pursuit on the track. In the road race was Van Dijk was a servant for Marianne Vos, the gold medal won. Van Dijk attacked several times and came out of the time limit within. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29]  Since the victory of Fox and team performance was seen, were also Van Dijk, Loes Gunnewijk and Annemiek van Vleuten this after the Games honored to include the Holland Heineken House andKnights Hall . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[30 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-31" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[31]  The great object of its season, the time trial at the Games, went to her appearance and finished eighth. Afterwards she said she was too scared to start too hard but just lost. Lot of time at the beginning <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[32]  In the team pursuit drove van Dijk with Kirsten Wild , Amy Pieters and Vera Koedooder to sixth place. In the preliminaries, they had a short time theOlympic record in hands and they drove a Dutch record. On the sixth Van Dijk, responded that it was the highest at that time. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[33]
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 Skating
 * 2.2 Juniors Time
 * 2.3 Professional career
 * 2.3.1 2006
 * 2.3.2 2007
 * 2.3.3 2008
 * 2.3.4 2009
 * 2.3.5 2010
 * 2.3.6 2011
 * 2.3.7 2012
 * 2.3.8 2013
 * 3 Achievements
 * 3.1 Results at championships and the Olympics
 * 3.2 Other important results
 * 4 Literature
 * 5 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In preparation for the world championships Van Dijk and her team won the team time trial at the World Cup Open Suede Vårgårda and the Holland Ladies Tour . In the meantime, Van Dijk won the first edition of the Lotto Decca Tour after winning the last stage. On the first day of the world championshipsValkenburg Van Dijk won with Team Specialized lululemon team time trial and so her first world title on the road. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[34]  On the hilly track in Limburg Van Dijk was three days later fifth in the individual time trial and had thus that she belongs to the world in the time trial. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-35" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]  In the road race, she was involved in a crash, so they had to finish the race. early <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[36]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">During the winter, Van Dijk chose not to drive to fully focus on road racing on the track. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-cyclingonline_37-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[37] ====2013 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ==== Ellen van Dijk became world champion time trial in 2013.<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Van Dijk began the season with a third place in the overall standings in the Tour of Qatar . In the spring Van Dijk rode very well with hootepunt victory in Le Samyn des Dames. In the first three World Cup races she drove twice to second place ( Tour of Drenthe , Tour of Flanders ) and was third in the Trofeo Alfredo Binda in Italy. During her stay in Italy Specialized examined her on her time trial position and she found a better position, they could hold out, by adjusting the position of her saddle and handlebars. Almost half an hour <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-cyclingonline_37-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[37]  The result was that they are the individual time trial in Energiewacht Tour won by force majeure. In addition to her new position, she said she is also one of kicking a higher power than in 2012 during the Olympic Games and the World Cup. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-38" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[38]  After two second places, they also won the overall classification of the Energy Guard Tour. Besides the time trial Van Dijk had also improved on driving uphill. They finished sixth in the fourth World Cup competition, the mountainous Fleche Wallonne . Her trials were going well and she won the time trial of the Tour of Borsele and two time trial stages in the Gracia-Orlová . She also won the mountain stage, the queen stage of Gracia Orlová and therefore her second final ranking of a stage race of the season. In June, Van Dijk successfully defended her national time trial title at the National Championships in Pafos . A few days later they drove into medal position at the national championships on the road, but had to abandon due to a broken derailleur in the penultimate round. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-39" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39]  In the Giro d'Italia Femminile, the most important stage race in the women's cycling, she won the individual time trial. With Team Specialized lululemon she won the World Cup team time trial race, the Open de Suede Vårgårda TTT . After the last two World Cups, the Open de Suede Vårgårda, where they finished fourth and the GP de Plouay, where they did not start in order to prepare for the final stage races, she finished third in the overall World Cup standings. In stage races, they remained strong drive and won both the final standings of theLotto-Belisol Belgium Tour as the Holland Ladies Tour, including the team time trial stages.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">The thing van Dijk throughout the season to go had lived was still to come, the individual and team time trial at the World Championships in Tuscany . During the season, Van Dijk had gone a few times to Italy to explore the course. They rode the time trial course at five o'clock in the morning to avoid the traffic and made ​​video recordings to learn the curves. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-40" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[40]  In the week prior to the World Championships, she won the time trial Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen in France. All preparations paid off and the World Cup was very successful for van Dijk. With her ​​team, she won for the second consecutive world title in the team time trial. For the individual time trial Van Dijk was the favorite because she had won. Almost all trials of the season Despite the enormous pressure she won dominated the individual time trial and she became the second woman ever to Dutch world champion time trial. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-41" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[41]  In the final weekend of the World Cup Van Dijk finished sixteenth in the very hilly road race. Due to its highly successful season ended van Dijk third in the world for women in 2013. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-42" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[42]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In a press conference in early October Van Dijk announced that they will be driving for the next three years Dolmans-Boels Cycling Team with major long-term goal of the trial at the 2016 Olympic Games. She continues to fully focus on road racing and will therefore no longer on the lane. She was among the nominees for cyclist of the year and was nominated for Sportswoman of Amsterdam. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[43 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[44] ==Results achieved <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] == ===Results for championships and the Olympics <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ Edit] === ===Other important results <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;"> In the list of honors included: - Victories at dagkoerses and stage races where UCI points are distributed (ie minimum level 1.2 or 2.2.) - Podiums at World Cup final classifications and stage races.