Jenny Rissveds (born 6 June 1994) is a Swedish cross-country mountainbike rider. She won the gold medal in women's cross country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Career
Rissveds won the gold medal in the under-23 mountainbike race at the World Championships in 2016.
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.
After suffering from mental health issues, Jenny took an hiatus from competing most of the 2017 and the 2018 season.
In July 2017, she was awarded the Victoria Scholarship.
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.
Rissveds won her second olympic medal, a bronze, at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Major results
Cyclo-cross
2015âÂÂ2016
1st National Championships
1st Stockholm
2016âÂÂ2017
1st National Championships
Road
2010
6th Overall U6 Cycle Tour
:1st Stage 5 (ITT)
2022
1st Road race, National Championships
2nd Overall Gracia Orlová
:1st Stage 2
2023
National Championships
:1st Time trial
:5th Road race
1st Overall Gracia Orlová
:1st Stage 3 (ITT)
4th Overall Baloise Ladies Tour
Mountain bike
2012
1st Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships
2013
1st National Championships
:1st Cross-country
:1st Downhill
:1st Eliminator
2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
2014
1st National Championships
:1st Cross-country
:1st Eliminator
2015
1st National Championships
:1st Cross-country
:1st Eliminator
3rd Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
2016
1st Cross-country, Olympic Games
1st Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
1st Cross-country, National Championships
UCI XCO World Cup
:1st Lenzerheide
:2nd Albstadt
:4th Vallnord
Internazionali d'Italia Series
:1st Milan
2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
2017
1st Overall Mixed Cape Epic (with Thomas Frischknecht)
Swiss Bike Cup
:1st Rivera
2019
1st Cross-country, National Championships
UCI XCO World Cup
:1st Lenzerheide
:3rd Val di Sole
:5th Vallnord
UCI XCC World Cup
:1st Snowshoe
:3rd Lenzerheide
2020
1st Cross-country, National Championships
2021
National Championships
:1st Cross-country
:1st Eliminator
UCI XCC World Cup
:1st Lenzerheide
:3rd Nové MÃÂsto
:3rd Les Gets
:3rd Snowshoe
3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
:2nd Leogang
:2nd Les Gets
:3rd Lenzerheide
2022
National Championships
:1st Cross-country
:1st Short track
Internazionali d'Italia Series
:1st Capoliveri
UCI XCC World Cup
:1st Lenzerheide
:3rd Albstadt
:3rd Nové MÃÂsto
:3rd Snowshoe
UCI XCO World Cup
:2nd Albstadt
:2nd Leogang
:2nd Lenzerheide
:2nd Snowshoe
:3rd Nové MÃÂsto
2023
UCI XCC World Cup
:1st Lenzerheide
UCI XCO World Cup
:2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
:4th Leogang
2024
1st Cross-country, National Championships
UCI XCO World Cup
:1st Mairiporã
:2nd Araxá
:4th Les Gets
UCI XCC World Cup
:2nd Lake Placid
3rd Cross-country, Olympic Games
3rd Short track, UCI World Championships
2025
UCI World Championships
:1st Cross-country
:2nd Short track
UEC European Championships
:1st Cross-country
:1st Short track
2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
:1st Araxá II
:1st Les Gets
:1st Lake Placid
:1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
:2nd Lenzerheide
:3rd PalâÂÂArinsal
:4th Val di Sole
2nd Overall UCI XCC World Cup
:1st Les Gets
:1st Lenzerheide
:1st Lake Placid
:1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
:2nd Val di Sole
:3rd Araxá II
References