Miriam Bjørnsrud Explained
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 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 classificationNotes and References
- Web site: Miriam Bjørnsrud . 30 September 2013 . ProCyclingStats.
- Web site: Final Results / Résultats finaux: Road Race Women Elite / Course en ligne femmes élite. Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. 28 September 2013. PDF. https://web.archive.org/web/20131012063031/http://cycling.sportresult.com/results/cr/2013/WM/11RES00.pdf. 12 October 2013. dead.
- News: Holterhuset. Martin. Tre år etter skrekkfallet i VM gir hun opp – Miriam (24) blir ikke kvitt angsten. 12 May 2018. Romerikes Blad. 4 September 2017.
- News: Murtnes. Sindre. Smith. Christian Nitschke. Når hjernen vil stoppe deg. 12 May 2018. Norsk Rikskringkasting. 17 September 2017.
