Jenny Rissveds

Rissveds in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Jenny Rissveds
Born	(1994-06-06) 6 June 1994 (age 30) Falun, Sweden
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Team information
Current team	Team 31
Discipline	Mountain bike racing
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cross-country
Major wins
Cyclo-cross National Championships (2016, 2017) Mountain bike Olympic Games XC (2016) National XC Championships (2013–2016, 2019–2022, 2024) XC World Cup 2 individual wins (2019, 2024) Road One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2022) National Time Trial Championships (2023)
Medal record Women's mountain bike racing Representing  Sweden Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Cross-country 2024 Paris Cross-country World Championships 2024 Vallnord Cross-country short track European Championships 2013 Bern Eliminator World Under-23 Championships 2016 Nové Město Cross-country 2015 Vallnord Cross-country European Under-23 Championships 2013 Bern Cross-country 2016 Huskvarna Cross-country European Junior Championships 2012 Moscow Cross-country

Jenny Rissveds (born 6 June 1994) is a Swedish cross-country mountainbike rider.^[1] She won the gold medal in women's cross country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[2]

Rissveds won the gold medal in the under-23 mountainbike race at the World Championships in 2016.^[3]

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.^[4]

In July 2017, she was awarded the Victoria Scholarship.^[5]

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.^[6]

Rissveds won her second olympic medal, a bronze, at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

2015–2016

1st National Championships

1st Stockholm

2016–2017

1st National Championships