Mischa Bredewold

Mischa Bredewold
Bredewold at the 2022 Amstel Gold Race
Personal information
Full nameMischa Bredewold
Born (2000-06-20) 20 June 2000 (age 24)
Amersfoort, Netherlands
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Team information
Current teamTeam SD Worx–Protime
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
2021–2023Parkhotel Valkenburg
2023–SD Worx[2]
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
European Road Race Championships (2023)
Classic Lorient Agglomération (2023, 2024)
Medal record
Women's road bicycle racing
Representing the  Netherlands
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Drenthe Road race

Mischa Bredewold (born 20 June 2000) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Tour Team SD Worx–Protime.[3]

Starting racing in 2017 as a junior, the early part of her career was heavily disrupted when she was hit by a truck while training for the Dutch junior team prior to the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.[4] Despite three broken vertebrae, six broken ribs, a broken pelvis, and a serious brain injury[4] – Bredewold made a full recovery, and joined the professional peloton in 2020 with NXTG Racing.[5]

Signing for Parkhotel Valkenburg for the 2021 season,[6] her best result of the year was the young riders classification at the Baloise Ladies Tour, with three other top 5 finishes in the young riders classifications at other races.[7]

In 2022, she finished 3rd in the under 23 category at the Dutch National Time Trial Championships, as well as 3rd in the under 23 category European Road Championships Mixed Relay Team Time Trial.[8][9] In her first Grand Tour, Bredewold came second in the young riders classification at the Tour de France Femmes, five minutes behind Shirin van Anrooij. She finished the race 21st overall.[10][11] Bredewold then won the À travers les Hauts-de-France later that year.[12]

In September 2022, it was announced that both Bredewold and Femke Markus would join SD Worx from 2023, signing a two-year deal.[2] In 2024, Bredewold won her first two UCI Women's World Tour stages at Itzulia Women, finishing 2nd overall behind teammate Demi Vollering.[13]

Major results

2018
7th Overall Omloop van Borsele Juniors
7th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour Junior
2021
4th Overall Baloise Ladies Tour
1st Young rider classification
10th Overall Lotto Belgium Tour
2022
1st À travers les Hauts-de-France
2nd Overall Tour de la Semois [fr]
1st Points classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 1
3rd Team relay, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
3rd Leiedal Koerse
6th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 6
6th Overall Bretagne Ladies Tour
2023
1st Road race, UEC European Road Championships
1st Classic Lorient Agglomération
1st Volta Limburg Classic
3rd Overall Thüringen Ladies Tour
1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 2
9th Dwars door het Hageland
2024
1st Classic Lorient Agglomération
2nd Overall Itzulia Women
1st Stages 1 & 2
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Overall Thüringen Ladies Tour
1st Stage 5 (ITT)
2nd Omloop van het Hageland
4th Dwars door het Hageland

General classification results timeline

Major Tour results timeline
Stage race 2021 2022 2023 2024
La Vuelta Femenina[note 1] — — — 40
Giro d'Italia Femminile — — — —
Tour de France Femmes DNE 21 63 54
Stage race results timeline
Stage race 2021 2022 2023 2024
The Women's Tour 24 — — —
Holland Ladies Tour 11 6 22
Itzulia Women DNE — 33 2
Tour of Scandinavia[note 2] 25 21 — NH
Tour de Romandie Féminin DNE 62 41
Tour de Suisse — — — 47
  1. ^ Known as the Challenge by La Vuelta from 2020 to 2022
  2. ^ Known as the Ladies Tour of Norway until 2021

Classics results timeline

Monuments results timeline
Monument 2021 2022 2023 2024
Tour of Flanders 25 23 — 24
Paris–Roubaix OTL 58 — —
Liège–Bastogne–Liège — 59 45 67
Classics results timeline
Classic 2021 2022 2023 2024
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 36 31 — —
Strade Bianche — — 35 52
Trofeo Alfredo Binda — — 45 —
Gent–Wevelgem 88 40 — —
Dwars door Vlaanderen — — 12 19
Amstel Gold Race 56 21 39 84
La Flèche Wallonne — — 36 —
Classic Brugge–De Panne 33 — — —
Ronde van Drenthe 16 40 38 36
Open de Suède Vårgårda NH 19 Not held
Strade Bianche — — 35 52
Classic Lorient Agglomération — — 1 1

References

  1. ^ "Mischa Bredewold". Team SD Worx. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  2. ^ a b "Mischa Bredewold and Femke Markus to Team SD Worx". teamsdworx.com. 2022-09-01. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  3. ^ "Parkhotel Valkenburg 2022". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
  4. ^ a b Been, José (2020-09-24). "Edo and Mischa: A cycling love story in the face of adversity". CyclingTips. Retrieved 2022-08-02. Bredewold, just 18, was on the shortlist for the Dutch junior women's team for the Road World Championships in Innsbruck. She was out on her time trial bike when she was hit by a truck while crossing the road. The result: three broken vertebrae, six broken ribs, a broken pelvis, and a serious brain injury.
  5. ^ "Mischa Bredewold 2020". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  6. ^ "Five Dutch talents sign with Team Parkhotel Valkenburg". Team Parkhotel Valkenburg. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Mischa Bredewold 2021". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  8. ^ "Mischa Bredewold 2022". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  9. ^ Muntslag, Gian (24 July 2022). "Mischa uit Hoogland gaat in de Tour de France voor vrouwen in beeld rijden: 'Wil mee in de aanval'". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  10. ^ "Tour de France Femmes - 8-Lure > La Planche des Belles Filles | Tissot Timing". www.tissottiming.com. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  11. ^ Giuliani, Simone (2022-08-01). "Shirin van Anrooij: I learned to suffer more than ever at Tour de France Femmes". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2022-08-02. That gave the 20 year old a lead of more than five minutes on the second-placed rider in the youth category, Mischa Bredewold of Parkhotel Valkenburg.
  12. ^ "A Travers les Hauts de France". UCI. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  13. ^ Knöfler, Lukas (2024-05-12). "Itzulia Women: Demi Vollering takes overall victory with dominant stage 3 solo win". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2024-05-12.