Marlen Reusser
![]() Reusser at the 2021 World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Marlen Reusser | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Jegenstorf, Switzerland | 20 September 1991||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68–72 kg (150–159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Alé BTC Ljubljana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2019 | WCC Team[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020 | Bigla–Katusha[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021 | Alé BTC Ljubljana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marlen Reusser (born 20 September 1991) is a Swiss racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Alé BTC Ljubljana.[3] She rode in the women's time trial event at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships.[4] She also rode in the individual time trial at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships in Imola, where she won the silver medal.[5]
For the 2021 season, Reusser joined the Alé BTC Ljubljana team, following the collapse of Équipe Paule Ka.[6]
Personal life[]
Marleen Reusser grew up in a farming family in the Swiss Emmental. Until 16 she played violin, and participated at an arts support program at the University of the Arts Bern. In school she started running, after a couple of ankle injuries she switched to swimming and cycling. 2008-2009 she was president of the Bernese Young Greens. After matura she studied medicine and worked as assistant doctor for surgery. 2017-2018 she was in the board of the Emmental Green Party. During the preparation for the road world championship 2018 in Innsbruck, she worked part time as a doctor in the Langnau hospital.[7][8][9]
Major results[]
- 2017
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 2019
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial, European Games
- 1st Ljubljana–Domzale–Ljubljana TT
- 4th
- 5th Overall
- 2020
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd
Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- UEC European Road Championships
- 2nd
Mixed team relay
- 3rd
Time trial
- 2nd
- 2021
- UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- UEC European Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial
- 7th Road race
- 1st
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial
- 1st
Road race
- 1st
- Olympic Games
- 2nd
Time trial
- 2nd
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT) Holland Ladies Tour
- 1st Chrono des Nations
- 2nd Overall Challenge by La Vuelta
- 1st Stage 1
- 4th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
- 9th Tour of Flanders
References[]
- ^ "WCC Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ "Bigla - Katusha". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 19 January 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
- ^ "Ale' BTC Ljubljana". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 10 January 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ "World Championships WE - ITT 2017 Time trial results". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ Frattini, Kirsten (24 September 2020). "Van der Breggen wins time trial title at Imola World Championships". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ Frattini, Kirsten (27 October 2020). "Marlen Reusser signs with Alé BTC Ljubljana in 2021". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Sport aktuell, SRF, 24 September 2018
- ^ Die wahre Grenze liegt im Kopf, Selina Stucki, Der Bund, 24 September 2018.
- ^ Die velofahrende Ärztin (The cycling doctor), Berner Zeitung, 23 March 2018.
External links[]
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- Marlen Reusser at Cycling Archives
- Marlen Reusser at ProCyclingStats
- Marlen Reusser at Cycling Quotient
- Marlen Reusser at Olympedia
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Swiss female cyclists
- People from the canton of Bern
- Cyclists at the 2019 European Games
- European Games medalists in cycling
- European Games gold medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic cyclists of Switzerland
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic medalists in cycling