Demi Vollering
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About
Professional Dutch cyclist, known for winning the women's Tour de France in 2023 and racing in the Paris 2024 Olympics. She has gained popularity for her athleticism and ad campaigns on social media, posting to Instagram under the handle, demivollering, where she has over 290,000 followers.
Before Fame
She grew up in Pijnacker as the eldest of four in a greenhouse grower family. She fell in love with cycling at a young age, playing on the bike in our neighborhood and participating in local 'fat tire' races. She continued to pursue cycling, and her other passion ice skating, balancing athletics with her schooling and work, until 2017 when she met her fiancée, Jelle Doogd. He was a cyclist and motivated her to fully focus on becoming a pro cyclist.
Trivia
Her most renowned accolades, aside from her 2023 Tour de France Femmes win, include winning the 2021 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes; three Ardennes classics in 2023 - the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne Féminine and Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes; and the Dutch cyclists road race in July of 2023. She rides for the UCI Women's World Team, SD Worx-Protime. In February 2024, she was on the cover of Women's Health Magazine.
Family Life
She is engaged to Jan Doogd, who is also her agent.
Associated With
She is a Nike athlete, alongside stars like Sabrina Ionescu.
