Cycling At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's Road Time Trial
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Cycling At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's Road Time Trial
The women's road time trial event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 28 July 2021 around the Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture. 25 cyclists from 20 nations competed in the event. The race was won by Annemiek van Vleuten of Netherlands. Van Vleuten set the fastest times at both intermediate time checks before setting the only time under 31 minutes. She won by 56 seconds over the silver medalist, Marlen Reusser of Switzerland. Reusser set the fourth and fifth fastest times at the first two time checks, respectively. Her final split allowed her to move into second, becoming the only rider within a minute of van Vleuten's time. The bronze medal went to Anna van der Breggen, the world champion and van Vleuten's compatriot. She was faster than Reusser at both time checks before Reusser eventually moved ahead by five seconds at the finish. Background This was the 7th appearance of the event, previously held at every Summer Olympics since 1996. The reigning Olympic champio ...
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Fuji Speedway
is a motorsport race track standing in the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, Fuji Speedway was used for the FIA World Sportscar Championship and national racing. Originally managed by Mitsubishi Estate Co., Fuji Speedway was acquired by Toyota Motor Corporation in 2000. The circuit hosted the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix in 2007 after an absence of nearly 30 years, replacing the Suzuka Circuit owned by Honda. After Fuji Speedway hosted the 2008 race, the Japanese Grand Prix returned to Suzuka for races from 2009 onward. The Super GT Fuji 500 km race is held at the racetrack on Golden Week. Fuji Speedway has one of the longest straights in motorsport tracks, at in length. The circuit has an FIA Grade 1 license. History 1963–79: F1 launches in Japan Fuji Speedway Corporation was established in 1963 as Japan NASCAR Corporation. At first, the circuit was planned to hold ...
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Masomah Ali Zada
Masomah Ali Zada (born on 11 March 1996) is a road cyclist, born in Afghanistan, who qualified for, and took part in, the 2020 Olympic Games as part of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Refugee Olympic Team. Born in Afghanistan, Ali Zada spent her early years in Iran, before returning to Afghanistan. Masomah learnt to ride in whilst living in Ghazni Province at the age of 9. Upon moving to Kabul in 2012 she found herself subject to physical and verbal harassment whilst cycling. Masomah and her family (her parents, three brothers and sister) fled Afghanistan in 2016 due to threats from the Taliban, and claimed asylum in France under a humanitarian visa. Currently studying civil engineering at the University of Lille, Masomah received an IOC Refugee Athlete Scholarship in 2019 and took part in the women’s individual time trial at Tokyo 2020 Olympics, finishing 25th of 25. In 2022 Ali Zada became a member of the Athletics' Commission of the International Olympic Commit ...
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Lisa Klein (cyclist)
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Leah Kirchmann
Leah Kirchmann (born 30 June 1990) is a Canadian racing cyclist, who rides for National Cycling League team Denver Disruptors. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence. At the 2014 Global Relay Canadian Road Championships, held in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, she won the road race, time trial and the criterium, becoming the first woman to win all three titles in the same year. Career Kirchmann's first sport was cross-country skiing. She continued to compete as a skier until about the age of 18. Kirchmann originally started mountain biking as summer training for ski racing. She turned professional in 2011 with the team. When the team dissolved at the end of 2011, Kirchmann followed director Rachel Heal to the new team in 2012. Kirchmann signed for on 8 October 2015 for the 2016 season. In June 2016, she was officially named in Canada's 2016 Olympic team. She also qualified to represent Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In August 2022, Kirchmann announced tha ...
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Sarah Gigante
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Canada
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Karol-Ann Canuel
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IOC Refugee Olympic Team At The 2020 Summer Olympics
The IOC Refugee Olympic Team competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, as independent Olympic participants. The IOC code is the French acronym "EOR", which stands for . This was the second appearance of a refugee team in the summer Olympics, following the 2016 Games. For the 2020 Games the team included 29 athletes, up from 10 in the 2016 team. The team comprised athletes originating from 11 nations who currently reside and train across 13 host nations, supported by the IOC's Olympic Scholarships for Refugee Athletes program. At the parade of nations, the IOC Team, according to the Japanese script traditional order and English pronunciation of IOC in Japanese, was the second to parade after Greece who traditionally parade first. Team selection The team was selected on 8 June 2021, represented in the following list, together with each competitor's country of origin and their host National Olympic Committee (NOC). Competitors The following is the list of number o ...
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