Jaime Nielsen


Jaime Nielsen 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 [UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit|2009] and bronze in 2011 UCI [Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit|2011].
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Cycling at the [2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit|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 Cycling at the [2016 Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit|Women's team pursuit]. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she finished eighth, in Cycling at the [2020 Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit|Women's team pursuit].
Nielsen won the New Zealand National [Time Trial Championships] three times and was second five times. 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
;2010
;2011
;2013
;2014
;2015
;2016

Road

;2011
;2012
;2013
;2014
;2015
;2016
;2017
;2021