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2015 Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik
The 2015 Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik was a one-day women's cycle race held in Belgium, starting and finishing in Gooik, on 31 May 2015. The race had a UCI rating of 1.1. The race was won by Australia's Gracie Elvin. Results See also * 2015 in women's road cycling 2015 in women's road cycling is about the 2015 women's bicycle races ruled by the UCI and the 2015 UCI Women's Teams. UCI Road World Rankings Final ranking 2015. World Championships The World Road Championships is set to be held in Richmon ... References Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik {{DEFAULTSORT:2015 Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gracie Elvin
Gracie Elvin (born 31 October 1988) is an Australian former bicycle racing, racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2020, for the and . Elvin is a two-time winner of the Australian National Road Race Championships, with victories in 2013 and 2014, and the first Australian rider to record a podium finish at the Tour of Flanders for Women, with second in 2017 Tour of Flanders for Women, 2017. Career She competed in the 2013 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race, 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence. After missing the 2014 UCI Road World Championships, Elvin competed in the women's road race in 2015 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race, 2015, 2016 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race, 2016 and 2017 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race, 2017. Elvin has also represented Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and the 2018 Commonwealth Games on home soil in the Gold Coast; she als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfax Media
Fairfax Media was a media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties. The company was founded by John Fairfax as John Fairfax and Sons, who purchased ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' in 1841. The Fairfax family retained control of the business until late in the 20th century. The company also owned several regional and national Australian newspapers, including ''The Age'', ''Australian Financial Review'' and '' Canberra Times'', majority stakes in property business Domain Group and the Macquarie Radio Network, and joint ventures in streaming service Stan and online publisher HuffPost Australia. The group's last chairman was Nick Falloon and the chief executive officer was Greg Hywood. On 26 July 2018, Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment Co. announced it had agreed on terms for a merger between the two companies. Shareholders in Nine Entertainment Co. took a 51% of the combined entity and Fairfax shareholders ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dani Rowe
Danielle 'Dani' Rowe Order of the British Empire, MBE (née King; born 21 November 1990) is a British former Road bicycle racing, road and track cyclist. She retired from cycling in December 2018. A Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit, team pursuit gold medallist from the Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London Olympics in 2012, Rowe also won three consecutive world titles in the women's team pursuit, winning in 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit, 2011, (with Laura Kenny, Laura Trott and Wendy Houvenaghel), 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit, 2012 (with Trott and Joanna Rowsell), and 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit, 2013 (with Trott and Elinor Barker). Career She won the 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup – Round 4 – Women's team pursuit, team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Cup in London in preparation for the Olympics in February 2012. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofie De Vuyst
Sofie De Vuyst (born 2 April 1987) is a Belgian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2019. Between 2010 and 2016 she competed in every UCI Road World Championships. She was voted 2019 Flandrienne of the Year (best Belgian female cyclist). In September 2019, De Vuyst tested positive for an exogenous steroid in an out of competition control. De Vuyst's positive test came on 18 September, in the week after the Belgium Tour, where she finished seventh overall and won the mountains classification, and before the UCI Road World Championships. A contract that she had signed for 2020 with was suspended as a result of her positive test. Major results ;2009 : 3rd Dwars door de Westhoek ;2011 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 4th Erondegemse Pijl : 5th Omloop van het Hageland : 6th Halle-Buizingen : 6th Dwars door de Westhoek : 8th Overall Tour Féminin en Limousin ;2012 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Tour de Bretagne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demi De Jong
Demi de Jong (born 11 February 1995) is a Dutch former road cyclist. As a junior, de Jong won the bronze medal in the women's junior time trial at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships. She started her professional career in 2014 at . In her last season she rode for UCI Women's Continental Team , but ended her career due to a knee injury. She is the younger sister of the 2016 Cyclo-cross World Champion, Thalita de Jong. Major results ;2012 : 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships : 3rd Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships ;2013 : 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships : 4th Overall Junior Energiewacht Tour ::1st Stage 2 : 6th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships ;2015 : National Road Championships ::1st Under-23 road race ::5th Road race : 6th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 8th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik ;2016 : 5th Le Samyn des Dames : 5th Trofee Maarten Wynants : 6th Erondegemse Pijl ;2017 : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Johansson
Emma Karolina Johansson (born 23 September 1983) is a Swedish retired professional racing cyclist. Nicknamed ''Silver Emma'', Johansson accumulated many second and third places at major championships and one-day classics. In 2013 she finished the year as number one on the UCI Women's World Ranking. She won the silver medal in the women's road race at both the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics, as well as one silver and two bronze medals at the Road World championships. She also holds a record four podium finishes at the Tour of Flanders for Women, with one second and three third places. Despite her amassing of podium places, she won several one-day races, including Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Ronde van Drenthe, Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio, Omloop van het Hageland, Le Samyn and the Holland Hills Classic. Johansson was also successful in stage races. She won the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen three times, the Emakumeen Euskal Bira twice and the Belgium Tour once. In addi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anouska Koster
Anouska Helena Koster (born 20 August 1993) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . Major results ;2011 : 3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2014 : 5th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 6th Overall Gracia-Orlová : 6th Gent–Wevelgem ;2015 : 1st Grand Prix Gippingen : 1st Young rider classification Energiewacht Tour : 3rd Ronde van Overijssel : 4th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 6th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik ;2016 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd Crescent Vårgårda Women World Cup TTT : 3rd Drentse Acht van Westerveld : 7th Prudential RideLondon Grand Prix : 8th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar ::1st Young rider classification : 9th Omloop van de IJsseldelta ;2017 : 1st Overall Belgium Tour ::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Road race, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Van Den Broek-Blaak
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (née Blaak; born 22 October 1989) is a Dutch road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In 2017 she became world road race champion in Bergen, Norway. Career Junior career Van den Broek-Blaak was the Dutch national junior time trial champion in 2006 and 2007. She was European under-23 road race champion in 2009 and was also third in the Ronde van Drenthe race of the UCI Women's Road World Cup in that year. Professional career Van den Broek-Blaak began her professional career in 2008 with the Dutch and remained with them until they disbanded at the end of 2012, after which she raced for the US team for a year. In 2014, she joined and won her first UCI Women's Road World Cup race, the Open de Suède Vårgårda. She transferred to the team for 2015, along with sponsors Specialized Bicycle Components and lululemon Athletica and teammate Evelyn Stevens. She won the 2015 Le Samyn des Dames. 2016 was her most succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Pieters
Amy Pieters (born 1 June 1991) is a Dutch professional road and track cyclist, who is contracted to ride for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She was a member of the Dutch team that finished sixth at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit (together with Ellen van Dijk, Kirsten Wild and Vera Koedooder). On 23 December 2021, Pieters was placed in an induced coma and underwent emergency surgery to relieve pressure on her brain caused by a fall that day during a training ride near Alicante with the Dutch national track team. After being repatriated to the Netherlands the following month, Pieters had regained consciousness in April but, due to the brain injury suffered, doctors were unsure of her "residual symptoms and remaining abilities". In October 2022, Pieters was able to take her first steps since the fall, at a neuro-rehabilitation centre in Woerden. Personal life Pieters is the daughter of former professional Peter Pieters, the niece of Sjaak Pieters and the sister of Roy Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Belgian Cycling League
The Royal Belgian Cycling League or KBWB/RLVB (in Dutch: ''Koninklijke Belgische Wielrijdersbond'', in French: ''Royale Ligue vélocipédique belge'') is the national governing body of cycle racing in Belgium. It was founded on 11 November 1882. The KBWB-RLVB is a member of the UCI and the UEC. See also * Cycle racing in Belgium * Belgian records in track cycling * Belgian Road Cycling Cup * Belgian National Cyclo-cross Championships * Belgian National Road Race Championships * Belgian National Time Trial Championships * Ardennes classics * Flanders Classics References External links Royal Belgian Cycling League official website Belgian Cycle racing organizations Cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from t ... Cycle racing in Belgium Organisations based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Van Dijk
Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time trial specialist and is five times world champion. She won her first world title on the track in the scratch race in 2008. She became Road World Champion in 2012, 2013 and 2016 with her respective trade teams in the team time trial and in 2013 also in the individual time trial. In 2015, she won the time trial at the first European Games and the silver medal in the team time trial at the world championships. Van Dijk started as a speed skater and as part of her skating training she undertook cycling as part of cross-training in summer. She excelled at both, competing nationally at junior level. After becoming a national cycling champion for the fifth time in 2007, she quit speed skating and became a full-time cyclist. Along with her world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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