The news of her fall caused her horror beyond the Netherlands. The 30-year-old once drove to the world title in Berlin and comes from a real cycling family.
This news of December 24, 2021 shocked the sports world: The three-time track cycling world champion Amy Pieters (You’ll find more about it here) from the Netherlands is in an artificial coma after an emergency operation as a result of a training fall. This was announced by Pieters’ team SD Worx on Christmas Eve.
The 30-year-old fell in the training camp of the Dutch national team in Calpe, Spain on Thursday and was operated on immediately in Alicante to reduce the overpressure in her head. The consequences of the accident can only be foreseen when Pieters wakes up from the coma, the message said.
Pieters comes from a cycling family
But while everyone in the Netherlands who is halfway interested in sports knows Pieters, things should look a little different in Germany. She has already celebrated great success here in the country. But what makes this outstanding athlete?
World title 2020 in Berlin: Amy Pieters (l.) At the side of Kirsten Wild. (Source: frontalvision.com/imago images)
Pieters started her professional career in 2010, is now a two-time Olympic participant and won the world championship title at Madison with Kirsten Wild in 2019, 2020 and 2021. From a German perspective, she was on the radar especially in 2020: Because in spring 2020 she became world champion in Madison in Berlin.
The cycling gene runs in her family. She is the daughter of the former cyclist and later cycling trainer Peter Pieters (* 1962), her older brother the cyclist Roy Pieters (* 1989). The former cyclist and current official Sjaak Pieters is her uncle and the gymnast Ans Dekker is her aunt.
Now it is to be hoped that Pieters will feel better again very soon and that she will be able to pursue her passion again in the near future.
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