Name Jaime Nielsen Role Olympic athlete | Height 1.77 m Weight 70 kg | |
Jaime Nielsen (born 3 September 1985) is a New Zealand track and road cyclist, and a former representative rower.
From 2003 to 2007, Nielsen competed with the national rowing team. She became world champion at the U23 World Rowing Championship in Poznań, Poland, in 2004 with the U23 women's quadruple sculls with fellow members Bess Halley, Darnelle Timbs and Fiona Paterson.
Despite only taking up cycling in 2007, at the team pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships she won silver in 2009 and bronze in 2011.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's team pursuit for the New Zealand team which placed 5th and set a national record of 3:18.514. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she finished 4th in the Women's team pursuit.
Nielsen won the New Zealand time trial championships in 2014 and was second from 2011 to 2013. More of her road race results are available on the Pro Cycling Stats website.