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Larissa Klaassen

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Larissa Klaassen
Personal information
Born (1994-05-07) 7 May 1994 (age 30)
Den Helder, Netherlands
Sport
CountryNetherlands
SportPara-cycling
DisabilityVision impairment
Medal record
Para-cycling
Representing  Netherlands
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Time trial B
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Time trial B

Larissa Klaassen (born 7 May 1994)[1] is a visually impaired Dutch Paralympic cyclist. Klaassen and sighted pilot Imke Brommer won the gold medal in the women's time trial B event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She also set a new Paralympic record of 1:05.291.[2]

She represented the Netherlands at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Together with sighted pilot Haliegh Dolman she won the silver medal in the women's 1 km time trial B event.[3][4]

Klaassen and Dolman also competed in the women's road time trial B where they finished in 11th place.[3] They also competed in the women's road race B and they did not finish in that event.[3]

At the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships held in Montichiari, Italy, Dolman and Klaassen won the gold medal in the women's 1 km time trial. They also won the bronze medal in the women's sprint event.

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships held in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Klaassen and her sighted pilot Imke Brommer won the silver medal in the women's time trial 500m B event and the bronze medal in the women's sprint B event.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Larissa Klaassen". 2020 Summer Paralympics. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Women's Time Trial B Results" (PDF). 2020 Summer Paralympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Larissa Klaassen". paralympic.org.
  4. ^ "Zilver voor baanwielrensters Klaassen en Dolman op Paralympics". NU.nl (in Dutch). 9 September 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Apeldoorn 2019: Sensational Sarah Storey". paralympic.org. 17 March 2019.
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