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Cycling At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's Madison
The women's Madison event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 6 August 2021 at the Izu Velodrome. 30 cyclists (15 teams of 2) from 15 nations competed. Background This was the debut appearance of the women's event. The men's Madison was held from 2000 to 2008, then was dropped for 2012 and 2016 because there was no women's equivalent. The event returned in 2020 with a new women's counterpart. The reigning (2020) world champions are Kirsten Wild and Amy Pieters of the Netherlands. Russia, Germany, China, Great Britain, Australia, and the Netherlands are traditionally strong track cycling nations, while Belgium and France have strong pedigrees in Madison events. Qualification A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 1 team of 2 cyclists in the madison. Quota places are allocated to the NOC, which selects the cyclists. Qualification is entirely through the 2018–20 UCI nation rankings. The 8 top nations in the team pursuit rankings automatically qualified a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izu Velodrome
The Izu Velodrome is a velodrome in Shizuoka, Japan. It has a 250-metre cycling track and spectator facilities for 3,600 people. It was opened in 2011, and was selected as the venue to host the track cycling events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. It is the only indoor 250-metre velodrome with a wooden timber surface in Japan, as other velodromes in Japan are outdoors that are longer than 250-metres and with asphalt surfaces, dedicated largely for keirin – literally "racing cycle" – is a form of motor-paced cycle racing in which track cyclists sprint for victory following a speed-controlled start behind a motorized or non-motorized pacer. It was developed in Japan around 1948 for gambling .... References Sports venues in Shizuoka Prefecture 2011 establishments in Japan Venues of the 2020 Summer Olympics 2020 Summer Paralympics Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics Indoor arenas in Japan Olympic cycling venues Venues of the 2026 Asian Games Sports ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UTC+9
UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00. During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with Tokyo until the fall of the Empire of Japan. As standard time (year-round) ''Principal cities: Tokyo, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Seoul, Pyongyang, Yakutsk, Koror, Dili, Jayapura, Ambon'' North Asia *Russia – Yakutsk Time **Far Eastern Federal District ***Amur Oblast, Sakha Republic (western part; west of the Lena River as well as territories adjacent to the Lena on the eastern side) ***Zabaykalsky Krai East Asia *Japan – Japan Standard Time *North Korea – Time in North Korea *South Korea – Korea Standard Time Oceania Micronesia *Palau Southeast Asia *East Timor – Time in East Timor *Indonesia – Eastern Indonesia Time **Eastern zone, including: ***Maluku Islands **** Maluku ****North Maluku ***Western New Guinea **** Papua * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotte Kopecky
Lotte Kopecky (born 10 November 1995) is a Belgian road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In December 2017, she was named the Belgian Talent of the Year. She is a multiple world champion on the track, having won golds in the points race in 2021 and the madison in 2017. She participated in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finishing 4th in the individual road race. In 2022, she won the Strade Bianche and Tour of Flanders classics. Major results Road ;2010 : 1st Time trial, National Novice Championships : 1st Time trial, Antwerp Provincial Novice Championships ;2011 : 1st Time trial, National Novice Championships : 1st Time trial, Antwerp Provincial Novice Championships ;2012 : National Junior Championships ::1st Time trial ::2nd Road race : UEC European Junior Championships ::3rd Time trial ::5th Road race ;2013 : 2nd Time trial, National Junior Championships : 2nd Time trial, Antwerp Provincial Junior Championships : 3rd Road race ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Valente
Jennifer Marie Valente (born December 24, 1994) is an American professional racing cyclist who is the gold medal winner of the women's omnium at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Valente has ridden for UCI Women's Team . She has won multiple gold medals in team pursuit championships, and won an Olympic silver medal in the team pursuit in 2016. Career She enjoyed a successful junior career, winning 12 national titles and one world junior title. At the 2011 and 2012 UCI Junior Track World Championships she won three medals, a gold medal in the scratch race and two bronze medals in the keirin. In the individual pursuit she won a silver medal at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In the team pursuit she has won three gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games. In June 2021, she qualified to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She took the gold medal in the women's omnium, beating reigning Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Jastrab
Megan Jastrab (born January 29, 2002) is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In September 2019, Jastrab won the women's junior road race at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire, England. In June 2021, she qualified to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Major results ;2019 : 1st Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships : UCI Junior Track World Championships ::1st Madison (with Zoe Ta-Perez) ::1st Omnium : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road race ::2nd Time trial : 1st Overall Healthy Ageing Tour Juniors ::1st Points classification ::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 1st Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda : 2nd Gent–Wevelgem Junioren ;2023 : 4th Classic Brugge–De Panne The Classic Brugge–De Panne is a road cycling race in Belgium in late March. Since 2018 it is raced over two days with a men's race on Wednesday and a women's race on Thursday. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letizia Paternoster
Letizia Paternoster (born 22 July 1999) is an Italian road and track cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In October 2017, she won gold in the team pursuit at the 2017 UEC European Track Championships in Berlin. In April 2018, she won the Gran Premio della Liberazione in Rome, her first professional road race victory. Two days later, she started in the Festival Elsy Jacobs, a three-day stage event in Luxembourg, and claimed the final stage and the general classification. Actor Peter Facinelli is her uncle. Major results Road ;2016 :1st Stage 1 (ITT) Albstadt-Frauen-Etappenrennen :2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships :3rd Trofeo Da Moreno–Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda :4th Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships :5th Road race, UCI Junior World Road Championships ;2017 :National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st Time trial :UEC European Junior Road Championships ::2nd Time trial ::3rd Road race :3rd Road race, UCI Junior Roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Balsamo (cyclist)
Elisa Balsamo (born 27 February 1998) is an Italian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Team , and represents Italy at international competitions. After competing at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships in the women's junior road race she became junior world champion at the 2016 UCI Road World Championships in the junior's road race. She won the gold medal at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships in the team pursuit. Early life Balsamo was born in Cuneo in 1998. Her father was an amateur cyclist. Before taking up cycling, she had competed in a number of skiing disciplines, as well as biathlon and swimming. Career Balsamo's first major win came at the 2016 UCI Road World Championships in Doha, where she won the Road Race in a bunch sprint ahead of Skylar Schneider. She signed for for the 2017 season. Her first professional win came at the Omloop van Borsele in April 2018, followed by a win at the GP Bruno Beghelli later in the year. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Edmondson
Annette Edmondson (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian former Cycle sport, cyclist who competed on the track with Cycling Australia's High Performance Unit (HPU). She also competed on the road for the team between 2015 and 2018. Her greatest successes were the three gold medals she won at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the omnium and team pursuit, a competition in which she also secured further silver medals in the omnium (2012) and team pursuit (2012 and 2013). Edmondson also competed in the London 2012 Olympics, securing a bronze medal for Australia in the women's Omnium and finishing in fourth place in the Team pursuit. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games she claimed a silver in the Cycling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's individual pursuit, individual pursuit and a gold in the Cycling at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's scratch race, scratch race, her first gold medal at an international level and her first Commonwealth title. In addition, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Baker
Georgia Baker (born 21 September 1994) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She rode in the women's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Cycling career After taking a break from road racing in 2016 with the High5 Dream Team to focus on her Rio Olympics campaign, Orica-Scott announced signing Baker to race in the Women's World Tour team for 2017. In her first European race for the Orica-Scott team at the end of May, Baker was among the 90 non-finishers of 121 that started at Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik. Baker in her second race on the opening stage at The Women's Tour at the start of June after a racing heart and sharp pains were felt in her chest and arm, exercising caution having lost her father to a heart attack in 2015, she withdrew from the race. She was diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia, while not life-threatening, needed to be treated to continue as an athlete. She was booked in for surgery in early August, in the hopes to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiktoria Pikulik
Wiktoria Pikulik (born 15 June 1998) is a Polish professional racing cyclist. In 2019, she became a three-time national track cycling champion, winning the under-23 omnium, team pursuit and Madison events. She also rode in the women's madison event at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships, with her sister Daria, securing qualification points for the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ... in Tokyo. References 1998 births Living people Polish female cyclists People from Darłowo Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Poland 20th-century Polish women 21st-century Polish women {{Poland-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daria Pikulik
Daria Pikulik (born 6 January 1997) is a Polish professional track cyclist. She rode in the women's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Her sister, Wiktoria, is also a professional cyclist. Major results ;2015 :1st Points Race, Grand Prix of Poland ;2016 : 1st Omnium, Prova Internacional de Anadia :Grand Prix Galichyna ::1st Omnium ::2nd Individual Pursuit :UEC U23 European Championships ::2nd Individual Pursuit ::3rd Team Pursuit (with Monika Graczewska, Justyna Kaczkowska and Łucja Pietrzak) :Grand Prix of Poland ::2nd Team Pursuit (with Monika Graczewska, Justyna Kaczkowska and Łucja Pietrzak) ::2nd Omnium ;2017 :3rd Omnium, Grand Prix Favorit Brno ;2020 :3rd Omnium, UCI Track Cycling World Championships ; 2023 :1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Le Net
Marie Le Net (born 25 January 2000) is a French road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Le Net won the silver medal in the junior women's road race at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships. Major results ;2022 : 7th Dwars door Vlaanderen : Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ... :: Stage 6 References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Net, Marie 2000 births Living people French female cyclists French track cyclists People from Pontivy Olympic cyclists for France Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Morbihan Cyclists from Brittany 21st-century French women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
