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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 Bigla Pro Cycling Team for the 2015 season. After one season she moved to UnitedHealthcare, 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
References
External links
Official website
Iris Slappendel at ProCyclingStats
Iris Slappendel at Cycling Archives (archived)
Iris Slappendel profile at Cycling Quotient
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- Iris Slappendel
- The Cyclists' Alliance
- Iris (given name)
- Egmond-pier-Egmond
- 2008 Holland Ladies Tour
- List of rosters for DSB Bank and its successors
- List of wins by DSB Bank and its successors
- 2014 Ladies Tour of Qatar
- 2010 Dutch National Track Championships – Women's individual pursuit
- 2012 Rabobank Women Cycling Team season