Iris Slappendel (born 18 February 1985) is a Dutch former road racing cyclist.
Career She won the 2012 Open de Suède Vårgårda road race, the penultimate event in the 2012 UCI Women's Road World Cup. Slappendel took a total of five UCI race victories in her career, including the GP Comune di Cornaredo and stages of the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, the Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden and La Route de France.
In September 2014 Slappendel announced that she would join the for the 2015 season. After one season she moved to , racing mainly in North America. In September 2016 she announced her retirement from professional competition, having won her final race, the Gateway Cup, earlier that month.
Personal life Outside of cycling, she works freelance as a designer, and she won a competition to design new jerseys for the leaders of the season-long classifications of the UCI Women's Road World Cup, to be used from the 2014 season. Since retiring, Slappendel has continued her career as a designer and started her own business that designs and manufactures cycling apparel. Having previously represented female riders in the UCI Athlete's Commission from 2015 to 2017, Slappendel now dedicates her time to The Cyclists' Alliance as executive director.
Major results
2006 3rd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 2007 8th Road race, National Road Championships 2008 5th Time trial, National Road Championships 9th Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 10th Peperbus Profspektakel 2009 2nd Omloop Van De Blauwe Stad 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT 3rd Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs 4th Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen 8th Time trial, National Road Championships 9th Overall Holland Ladies Tour 9th Omloop van Borsele 2010 1st Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT 2nd Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 3rd Parkhotel Rooding Hills Classic 5th Time trial, National Road Championships 6th Omloop Door Middag-humsterland 8th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen 1st Stage 6 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 10th Ronde van Drenthe 2011 3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT 4th Time trial, National Road Championships 5th Erondegemse Pijl 6th Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 7th Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin 7th Open de Suède Vårgårda 8th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg 9th Omloop van Borsele 2012 1st GP Comune di Cornaredo 1st Open de Suède Vårgårda National Road Championships 3rd Time trial 10th Road race 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT 4th Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships 4th Overall Ster Zeeuwsche Eilanden 1st Prologue 6th Overall Energiewacht Tour 6th Erondegemse Pijl 6th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg 2013 2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies 3rd Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik 8th Time trial, National Road Championships 8th Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin 8th Overall Energiewacht Tour 2014 1st Overall Sprints classification UCI Women's Road World Cup 1st Road race, National Road Championships 1st Stage 7 La Route de France 8th Ronde van Overijssel 10th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar 10th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup 2015 8th Gent–Wevelgem 2016 1st Gateway Cup
References
External links
Iris Slappendel profile at Cycling Quotient