Annika Langvad

Annika Langvad (born 22 March 1984) is a Danish former racing cyclist, who rode for Specialized Racing in cross-country mountain bike racing. Langvad is a five-time World Champion in mountain bike racing, winning four titles in mountain bike marathon and one in cross-country.

Annika Langvad

Langvad in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Annika Langvad
Born	(1984-03-22) 22 March 1984 (age 41) Silkeborg, Denmark
Team information
Current team	Specialized Racing
Discipline	Mountain bike racing Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cross-country
Professional teams
2011–2012	Fujibikes Rockets (MTB)
2013	Davinci–Specialized (MTB)
2014–	Specialized Racing (MTB)
2019	Boels–Dolmans (road)[1]
Major wins
Cyclo-cross National Championships (2011, 2014, 2015) Mountain bike World XC Championships (2016) World Marathon Championships (2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018) National XC Championships (2009–2018, 2020) XC World Cup 6 individual wins (2015–2018) Cape Epic (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2025) Road One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2010) National Time Trial Championships (2010, 2011, 2013)
Medal record Women's mountain bike racing Representing  Denmark World Championships 2016 Nove Mesto Cross-country 2015 Vallnord Team relay 2017 Cairns Team relay 2018 Lenzerheide Cross-country 2018 Lenzerheide Team relay European Championships 2016 Huskvarna Cross-country Women's Mountain bike marathon World Championships 2011 Montello Women's race 2012 Ornans Women's race 2014 Pietermaritzburg Women's race 2017 Singen Women's race 2018 Auronzo di Cadore Women's race 2015 Selva di Val Gardena Women's race 2010 Sankt Wendel Women's race

Career

From 2014, Langvad and her Swiss Spur-Specialized teammate Ariane Kleinhans won the women's category of Absa Cape Epic three consecutive times. In 2015, they won by a significant margin of an hour and 18 minutes. Langvad won the Cape Epic a total of six times during her career.^[2] Also in 2015, Langvad won the Leadville 100, becoming the first woman to ride that race under 7 hours. In 2016, Langvad won the world championship in Women's cross-country and also placed second in the UCI World Cup rankings for Cross Country, only 24 points behind the leader, Catharine Pendrel. She went on to finish as runner-up in the cross-country World Cup standings a second time in 2018. On the road, she won the Danish road race championship in 2010, was a three-time Danish time trial champion, and finished sixth in the 2013 individual time trial World Championship. She rode the 2019 season on the road with Boels–Dolmans, during which she finished second at Strade Bianche, fourth at the Amstel Gold Race, and third at Flèche Wallonne.^[3] On 9 October 2020, she announced her retirement.^[4]

Major results

Cyclo-cross

2010–2011

1st National Championships

2013–2014

1st National Championships

2014–2015

1st National Championships

3rd Kronborg

Gravel

2023

UCI World Series

2nd Halmstad

Road

2010

National Championships

1st Road race

1st Time trial

2011

1st Time trial, National Championships

2013

1st Time trial, National Championships

6th Time trial, UCI World Championships

2018

3rd Time trial, National Championships

2019

2nd Strade Bianche

3rd La Flèche Wallonne

4th Amstel Gold Race

Mountain bike

2009

1st Cross-country, National Championships

2010

1st Cross-country, National Championships

3rd Marathon, UCI World Championships

2011

1st Marathon, UCI World Championships

1st Cross-country, National Championships

2012

1st Marathon, UCI World Championships

1st Cross-country, National Championships

2013

1st Cross-country, National Championships

2014

1st Marathon, UCI World Championships

1st Cross-country, National Championships

1st Overall Cape Epic (with Ariane Lüthi)

1st Overall Swiss Epic (with Ariane Kleinhans)

UCI XCO World Cup

3rd Windham

2015

1st Cross-country, National Championships

1st Overall Cape Epic (with Ariane Lüthi)

2nd Marathon, UCI World Championships

2nd Overall Swiss Epic (with Ariane Lüthi)

3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup

1st Val di Sole

3rd Windham

2016

1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships

1st Cross-country, National Championships

1st Overall Cape Epic (with Ariane Lüthi)

1st Roc d'Azur

2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup

1st Cairns

1st Albstadt

2nd Lenzerheide

2017

1st Marathon, UCI World Championships

1st Cross-country, National Championships

2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup

1st Nové Město

2nd Vallnord

UCI Marathon Series

1st Attakwas Extreme

1st Roc d'Azur

2018

1st Marathon, UCI World Championships

1st Cross-country, National Championships

1st Marathon, National Championships

1st Overall Cape Epic (with Kate Courtney)

2nd Cross-country, UCI World Championships

2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup

1st Stellenbosch

1st Nové Město

2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne

3rd La Bresse

UCI XCC World Cup

1st Albstadt

1st Nové Město

1st Val di Sole

1st Mont-Sainte-Anne

1st La Bresse

2nd Vallnord

2019

1st Overall Cape Epic (with Anna van der Breggen)

2020

1st Cross-country, National Championships

1st Marathon, National Championships

1st Overall Swiss Epic (with Haley Batten)

2025

1st Overall Cape Epic (with Sofía Gómez Villafane)