Jolanda Neff
Jolanda Neff is a Swiss cyclist, who primarily rides in the cross-country cycling and cyclo-cross disciplines, for the Cannondale Factory Racing team. She won the gold medal in the Cycling at the [2020 Summer Olympics – Women's cross-country|women's cross-country] event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Career
She was the overall winner of the UCI [Mountain Bike World Cup] in 2014 and 2015. She was triple Under-23 Mountain Bike World Champion. At the 2017 UCI World Championships in Cairns she became the elite world champion.In June 2015, she won the first gold medal for 2015 European Games|Switzerland] in the Cycling at the [2015 European Games – Women's cross country|women's cross country] event at the European Games in Baku. Later the same month, she went on to win the Swiss [National Road Race Championships].
Neff won the UCI [Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships] in 2016 and Mountain Bike XCO World Championship in 2017. She also won the European Mountain Bike Championships in August 2018 at Cathkin Braes, just outside of Glasgow.
In October 2018, Neff announced that she would join the new team for 2019 in road racing, and Trek Factory Racing in mountain biking and cyclo-cross.
In July 2021, Neff won the gold medal in the women's cross-country event at the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics. Her victory, along with her teammates Linda Indergand and Sina Frei winning the bronze and silver medals, marked the first all-Swiss Olympic podium since 1936 and the first time a nation has won all three medals in a cycling event since 1904.
Personal life
Since 2018, she has been in a relationship with American downhill mountain biking racer Luca Shaw.Career achievements
Major results
Cyclo-cross
;2015–2016;2017–2018
;2018–2019
;2019–2020
;2021–2022
;2022–2023
;2025–2026
Road
Source:;2015
;2016
;2018
;2020
;2021
;2022
;2023
;2024
Mountain bike
Source:;2012
;2013
;2014
;2015
;2016
;2017
;2018
;2019
;2020
;2021
;2022
;2023
;2024
;2025
Awards and honours
Between 2014 and 2019, Neff was named as the Swiss female cyclist of the year at the. She won the award for a seventh time in 2021, as all five Swiss female cyclists to ride, and win medals, at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Neff, Sina Frei, Linda Indergand, Marlen Reusser and Nikita Ducarroz – were recognised as joint winners.Following her Olympic gold medal, a street in Thal was renamed as "Jolanda Neff Weg" in her honour in August 2021.