Anne Terpstra

Anne Terpstra
Personal information
Born (1991-01-05) 5 January 1991 (age 33)
Zierikzee, Netherlands
Team information
DisciplineCross-country
RoleRider
Major wins
Mountain bike
National XC Championships (2018, 2020, 2022)
XC World Cup
2 individual wins (2019, 2022)
Cape Epic (2024)
Medal record
Representing  Netherlands
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2024 Vallnord Cross country
Women's mountain bike racing
Silver medal – second place 2020 Monteceneri Cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2021 Novi Sad Cross-country
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Munich Cross-country

Anne Terpstra (born 5 January 1991 in Zierikzee) is a Dutch cross-country cyclist. She is the silver medalist of 2024 World mountain bike championships in Cross-country Olympic.[1]

She placed 15th in the women's cross-country race at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2][3] She was on the start list of 2018 Cross-Country European Championships and was not allowed to finish.[4]

In 2019, during the Mountain Bike World Cup in Andorra, she won her first World Cup by beating Jolanda Neff in the final lap.[5] Terpstra is the first Dutch female athlete to win a World Cup. During the 2019 UCI World Cup finals In Snowshoe, USA, she became 2nd and secured a 4th in the overall.

In September 2019 she was leading the UCI World ranking for the first time.

She has no relation to fellow Dutch cyclist, Niki Terpstra.

  1. ^ "UCI Mountain Bike World Championships: Pieterse and Hatherly win Elite cross-country Olympic titles". UCI. 1 September 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Anne Terpstra". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Women's Cross-country – Standings". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  4. ^ "European Championships Results – CROSS-COUNTRY WOMEN". UEC. Archived from the original on 7 August 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  5. ^ Jones, Rob (8 July 2019). "Terpstra takes first-ever Dutch women's victory at World Cup in Vallnord". cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2021.