Jaime Nielsen

Jaime Nielsen (born 3 September 1985) is a New Zealand track and road cyclist, and a former representative rower.

Career
From 2003 to 2007, Nielsen competed with the national rowing team. She became world champion at the World Rowing U23 Championships 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. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she finished eighth, in Women's team pursuit.

Nielsen won the New Zealand National Time Trial Championships in 2014 and was second from 2011 to 2013.

Track

 * 2009
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships


 * 2010
 * 3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Melbourne


 * 2011
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team pursuit, 2010–11 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester
 * UCI Track Cycling World Championships
 * 3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team pursuit
 * 4th Individual pursuit


 * 2013
 * 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
 * 2nd Omnium, Invercargill


 * 2014
 * Oceania Track Championships
 * 1st OceaniaChampionJersey.png Team pursuit (with Lauren Ellis, Racquel Sheath and Georgia Williams)
 * 3rd Bronze medal Oceania.svg Individual pursuit
 * 3rd Points race, BikeNZ Cup


 * 2015
 * 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG Individual pursuit, National Track Championships


 * 2016
 * 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal Oceania.svg Individual pursuit, Oceania Track Championships

Road

 * 2011
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships


 * 2012
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships


 * 2013
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships


 * 2014
 * 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 4th Time trial, Commonwealth Games


 * 2015
 * 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 3rd Ljubljana–Domžale–Ljubljana TT
 * 9th Chrono Champenois
 * 10th Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol


 * 2016
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships


 * 2017
 * 1st MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships


 * 2021
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships