Femke Van den Driessche, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Femke Van den Driessche

cyclist

Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1997

Place of Birth: Asse, Flemish Region, Belgium

Profession: sport cyclist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Femke Van den Driessche (born 27 August 1996) is a Belgian former cyclo-cross cyclist, mountainbiker and road racing cyclist.As a junior, she became national cyclo-cross champion in 2011 and mountain bike champion in 2013.
In 2015, Van den Driessche won the European Cyclo-cross Championships in the women's under-23 category, and in 2016 she became Belgian champion in the same category, but both titles were stripped later. She became the first cyclist to officially be charged with mechanical doping, which arose from an incident that occurred at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.
On 26 April 2016, she was retroactively banned from the sport for six years from 11 October 2015 until 10 October 2021, and all her results since that time shall be disqualified.