Miriam Bjørnsrud
Before the start of Le Samyn 2016
Personal information
Born (1992-10-09) 9 October 1992
Eidsvoll, Norway
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional team
2013–2017Team Hitec Products
Major wins
National Championships Road Race (2015)

Miriam Bjørnsrud (born 9 October 1992) is a Norwegian former racing cyclist.[1] She finished 38th in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence.[2] In 2015, she won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships.

Before the 2017 UCI Road World Championships being contested in her home country, she announced that she would retire from racing, her last race was with Team Hitec Products in the team time trial.[3] She stated an inability to complete shake off anxiety racing in the peloton after she was injured in a high speed crash at the 2014 Road World Championships road race.[4]

Major results

2010
National Junior Road Championships
1st Road race
2nd Time trial
2012
National Road Championships
2nd Road race
2nd Criterium
2013
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
7th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2014
1st Criterium, National Road Championships
2015
1st Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Cholet Pays de Loire Dames
4th Erondegemse Pijl
2016
National Road Championships
2nd Road race
3rd Time trial
2017
3rd Overall Tour of Thailand
1st Mountains classification

References

  1. ↑ "Miriam Bjørnsrud". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Final Results / Résultats finaux: Road Race Women Elite / Course en ligne femmes élite" (PDF). Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Holterhuset, Martin (4 September 2017). "Tre år etter skrekkfallet i VM gir hun opp – Miriam (24) blir ikke kvitt angsten". Romerikes Blad. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
  4. ↑ Murtnes, Sindre; Smith, Christian Nitschke (17 September 2017). "Når hjernen vil stoppe deg". Norsk Rikskringkasting. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
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