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Cycling At The 2000 Summer Olympics
Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 3 different bicycle racing disciplines were contested: Road cycling, track cycling, and mountain biking. Road cycling Track cycling Men Women Mountain biking Medal table Records broken OR = Olympic record, WR = World record Sources References External linksOfficial Olympic Report {{DEFAULTSORT:Cycling At The 2000 Summer Olympics 2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ... 2000 Summer Olympics events Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Sydney Parklands
The Western Sydney Parklands is an urban park system and a nature reserve located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The NSW government has spent around $400 million for the park. The park is governed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and is listed under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974''. The Parklands begin in the north in the City of Blacktown, cross the City of Fairfield, and end in the City of Liverpool. The parklands, being approximately in size and in length, are one of the largest in the world, and they would feature picnic areas, sports grounds and walking tracks. The parklands attract 430,000 to 790,000 visitors annually.WSPT Annual Visitor Monitoring 2009/2010 In addition, the parkland provided lands for the 2000 Olympic Games. History The Parkland was an area of specialty for the Darug people and it is still deemed as important by the Aboriginal Land Council. The Parkland has been visited by some early settlers, such as Edward Abbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontien Zijlaard
Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970) is a Dutch retired racing cyclist. She was a dominant cyclist in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games and holding the hour record for women from 2003 until 2015. Career Van Moorsel started her career in 1977. She won major races both on the track, and on the road. In the first half of the 1990s, she won the Tour Féminin twice, after fierce competition with Jeannie Longo. Van Moorsel dropped out of cycling in 1994 with anorexia nervosa but recovered to compete at the World Championships in 1998, winning the time trial and coming second in the road race. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, van Moorsel won gold medals on the road (road race and time trial), and on the track (3 km pursuit). At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she fell in the penultimate lap of the road race and was stretchered off and taken to the hospital by ambulance, but nevertheless successfully ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Villa
Marco Villa (born February 8, 1969 in Abbiategrasso) is a road bicycle and track cyclist from Italy. He won the bronze medal in the men's Madison at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia alongside Silvio Martinello Silvio Martinello (born 19 January 1963) is a retired road bicycle and track cyclist from Italy. He won the gold medal in the men's points race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, followed by the bronze medal in the men's madison .... He is a professional rider since 1993. References * 1969 births Living people People from Abbiategrasso Italian male cyclists Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Italy Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in cycling UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Cyclists from the Metropolitan City of Milan Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Italian track cyclists {{Italy-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Martinello
Silvio Martinello (born 19 January 1963) is a retired road bicycle and track cyclist from Italy. He won the gold medal in the men's points race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, followed by the bronze medal in the men's madison in Sydney, Australia alongside Marco Villa. He was a professional rider from 1986 to 2000. Major results Road ;1983 : 1st Giro del Belvedere ;1989 : 2nd Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria : 3rd Trofeo Laigueglia ;1990 : 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España ;1991 : 1st Milano–Vignola : 1st Stage 18 Giro d'Italia : 1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico : 1st Stage 1 Giro del Trentino : 3rd Giro del Veneto : 7th Trofeo Pantalica : 8th Giro dell'Etna ;1992 : 1st Stage 3 Three Days of De Panne ;1993 : 3rd Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria ;1994 : 3rd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen : 3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 5th GP Rik Van Steenbergen : 8th Scheldeprijs ;1996 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 1 ::Held after Stages 1–2 & 4–5 ::Held after Stages 1, 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Gilmore
Matthew Gilmore (born 11 September 1972 in Ghent) is a Belgian-Australian retired track cyclist, who mostly competed and was most successful on track for Belgium. Although Gilmore was born in and represented Belgium, he is the son of Australian racing cyclist Graeme Gilmore and competed with an Australian licence earlier in his career, changing to Belgium on 15 June 1998. Gilmore is also the nephew of British racing cyclist Tom Simpson. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics he won a silver medal in the men's madison event together with Etienne De Wilde. That year, he rode for Danish road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and ... Memory Card-Jack & Jones. Before that he rode for SPAR-RDM, and afterwards he changed to Vlaanderen-T Interim. External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etienne De Wilde
Etienne De Wilde (born 23 March 1958 in Wetteren, East Flanders) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. De Wilde won races on the road and on the track. He won a silver medal in the madison at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1979 : 3rd National Amateur Road Race Championships ;1980 : 1st Stage 12 Vuelta a España : 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 1st Berlare & Nevele : 5th Blois-Chaville ;1981 : 1st Omloop van West-Brabant : 1st Stage 1a Three Days of De Panne : 1st Velaines sur Sambre & Wetteren ;1982 : 1st Flèche Picarde : 1st Stage 2 Four Days of Dunkirk : 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Oise : 1st Mouscron, Wetteren & Zele ;1983 : 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen : 1st Flèche Picarde : 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Oise : 1st Destelbergen, Laarne & Sint-Niklaas : 5th Gent–Wevelgem ;1984 : 1st Omloop van de Fruitstreken ;1985 : 1st Stage 1 Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme : 1st Temse ;1986 : 1st Omnium, National Track Championships : 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Aude : 1st Merelbeke : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott McGrory
Scott Anthony McGrory (born 22 December 1969) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. McGrory won a gold medal (with ) in the at the in |
Brett Aitken
Brett Aitken (born 25 January 1971) is an Australian Olympic track cyclist. He has won three Olympic medals, including gold in the Madison event at the 2000 Olympics.Jones, Jeff & Stevenson, John (2006)Olympic gold medalist Aitken returns to cycling", CyclingNews.com, 18 February 2006, retrieved 24 January 2010 He retired from cycling in 2004, but returned in 2006 to ride on the Oceania Tour. On 16 January 2001, he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his gold medal winning achievement. Aitken was born in Adelaide and was affiliated with the Adelaide Cycling Club. He was also an Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ... scholarship holder. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Fiedler (cyclist)
Jens Fiedler (born 15 February 1970) is a German triple Olympic champion and multiple world champion track cyclist. He retired from competitive cycling in early 2005. Major results ;1992 : 1st Olympic Games, Sprint : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1993 : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1994 : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1995 : 1st National Championship, Sprint : 1st World Championship, Team sprint (with Michael Hübner, Jan van Eijden) ;1996 : 1st Olympic Games, Sprint : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1997 : 2nd World Championship, Sprint ;1998 : 1st National Championship, Sprint : 1st World Championship, Keirin : 2nd World Championship, Sprint ;1999 : 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with Jan van Eijden, Eyk Pokorny) : 1st National Championship, Sprint : 1st World Championship, Keirin ;2000 : 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with Jan van Eijden, Carsten Bergemann) : 3rd Olympic Games, Sprint : 3rd Olympic Games, Keirin : 2nd World Championsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Neiwand
Gary Neiwand (born 4 September 1966) is an Australian retired track cyclist. He is a former world champion, who also won four Olympic medals during his career. Biography Early life and career Neiwand was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 4 September 1966, the son of Ronald Charles Neiwand. Neiwand represented his country at cycling for more than a decade. He was Commonwealth Games sprint champion in 1986 and won his first Olympic medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, winning bronze in the sprint event. He repeated his success at the Commonwealth Games in 1990, taking the gold in the sprint. Neiwand won his first World Championship medal in 1991 in Stuttgart, winning the bronze in the sprint. He then went on to become the World Champion in both the keirin and sprint in 1993. 1994 saw Neiwand complete a hat-trick, winning his successive third sprint gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. After cycling Neiwand spiralled into depression after missing his goal of a gold meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Rousseau
Florian Rousseau (born 3 February 1974 in Orléans) is a former French track cyclist who won three gold medals and one silver at the Summer Olympics (1996 and 2000). He was popular among spectators for the facial expressions he pulled - many of them seeming to make his eyes bulge - to help him concentrate at the start of races. In retirement he became one of France's national sprint coaches. Youth Rousseau spent much of his childhood and went to school in Patay. He began as a soccer player but, seeing no future in team sports, switched to cycling. He showed early talent on the track and joined the national sports institute, INSEP, in western Paris in 1990. He won the world junior kilometre championship in 1992 and the world senior championship in 1993 and 1994. Career Florian Rousseau's win in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, United States, started a golden period for French track cycling that lasted four years. He won the kilometre at Atlanta but dropped the discipline to beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannie Longo
Jeannie Longo (born 31 October 1958 in Annecy, Haute-Savoie) is a French racing cyclist, 25-time French champion and 13-time world champion. Longo began racing in 1975 and was active in cycling through 2012. She was once widely considered the best female cyclist of all time, although that reputation is now clouded by suspicion of doping throughout her career. She is famous for her competitive nature and her longevity in the sport — when she was selected to compete for France in the 2008 Olympics, it was her seventh Olympic Games; some of Longo's competitors that year had not yet been born when she took part in her first Olympics in 1984. She had stated that 2008 would be her final participation in the Olympics. In the Women's road race, she finished 24th, 33 seconds behind winner Nicole Cooke, who was one year old when Longo first rode in the Olympics. At the same Olympics, she finished 4th in the road time trial, just two seconds shy of securing a bronze medal. She is curren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
