2009 World Championships
Hijgenaar won her fourth World Championship medal on 28 March 2009, taking the bronze medal in the Omnium, the first time the competition had been included for women in the World Championships. She was on equal points with Tara Whitten of Canada but missed out on that medal despite winning the 200 m flying start time trial and 500 m time trial events in the omnium.
She has now set the London Olympics of 2012 as a possible end to her career. If she fails to win a medal, she predicts she will stop.
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