Jaime Nielsen (born 3 September 1985) is a New Zealand track and road cyclist, and a former representative rower.
Career From 2003 to 2007, Nielsen competed with the national rowing team. She became world champion at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Poznań, Poland, in 2004 with the U23 women's quadruple sculls with fellow members Bess Halley, Darnelle Timbs and Fiona Paterson.
Despite only taking up cycling in 2007, at the team pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships she won silver in 2009 and bronze in 2011.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's team pursuit for the New Zealand team which placed her 5th and set a national record of 3:18.514. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she finished 4th in the Women's team pursuit. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she finished eighth, in Women's team pursuit.
Nielsen won the New Zealand National Time Trial Championships three times and was second five times. cyclingarchives.comJaime Nielsen procyclingstats.com In 2017 she broke the sea level world record for the one-hour ride in Cambridge. She clocked 47.791kms in the hour which was 909m more than the previous world's best at sea level.
Major results Track
2009 2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2010 3rd Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Melbourne 2011 2nd Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester UCI Track Cycling World Championships 3rd Team pursuit 4th Individual pursuit 2013 1st Individual pursuit, National Track Championships 2nd Omnium, Invercargill 2014 Oceania Track Championships 1st Team pursuit (with Lauren Ellis, Racquel Sheath and Georgia Williams) 3rd Individual pursuit 3rd Points race, BikeNZ Cup 2015 1st Individual pursuit, National Track Championships 2016 1st Individual pursuit, National Track Championships 2nd Individual pursuit, Oceania Track Championships
Road
2011 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2012 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2013 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2014 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 4th Time trial, Commonwealth Games 2015 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 3rd Ljubljana–Domžale–Ljubljana TT 9th Chrono Champenois 10th Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol 2016 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2017 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 2021 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
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