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Liberty Classic
The Liberty Classic was an annual women's bicycle race held from 1994 to 2012, simultaneously with the Philadelphia International Championship. The 57.6 mile race consisted of four laps of a 14.4 mile circuit through Philadelphia with 5 climbs up the famous Manayunk Wall. It was part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup until 2001. From 2002, it was an Elite Women's Category 1 event under UCI race classifications. The Liberty Classic was the final leg of the inaugural 2006 Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling for women. The Triple Crown was a one-week, 3-race circuit, with the three races taking place in the Eastern Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Reading and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The opening race was the Lehigh Valley Classic, followed two days later by Reading Classic, with the Liberty Classic finale in Philadelphia three days after the Reading race. In January 2013 the race's organisers announced that the 2013 International Championship and Liberty Classic had been ca ...
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ...
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Robin Morton (cycling)
Robin Morton is an American former cycling team manager and was the first and only female manager in men's professional cycling. She also created the first Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) registered American professional road racing team in 1984. Cycling in Europe is a traditionally male sport and includes rules prohibiting women from the race caravans. At managers' meetings prior to races in Europe, the race organization would vote on whether Morton would be allowed to ride in the team car. Morton was elected to the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2016. In 2011 CyclingNews acknowledged Robin as one of the five most influential women in the sport of cycling. Career 1980–82 Morton's first involvement with cycling was with the amateur racing team of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club (PBC) of Germantown, Pennsylvania assisting with team management and race organization. 1983 Morton managed a US pro cycling team sponsored by GIOS bicycles for the Tour of America with R ...
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Hanka Kupfernagel
Hanka Kupfernagel (born 19 March 1974 in Gera, Bezirk Gera) is a retired Germany, German professional cycle racer. During most of her career her primary focus was cyclo-cross racing, however, she has also won major road, track and mountain bike races. She has won seven consecutive medals at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, Women, UCI Women's Cyclo-cross World Championships, including three gold medals for 2000, 2001 and 2005; two silver medals in 2002 and 2003; and the bronze medal in 2004. Her major career victories also include a gold medal in the individual time trial competition at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships in Stuttgart and a silver medal in the road race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She finished 1st in the year-end Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI world class rankings in 1997 and 1999 winning the 1999 La Flèche Wallonne Féminine in the process. Kupfernagel captured the Emakumeen Bira cyclo-cross race three consecutive years from 1997 to 19 ...
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Karen Dunne
Karen Dunne (born December 30, 1967, in Detroit, Michigan) is a retired female professional cyclist from the United States. She is best known for winning the gold medal at the women's individual road race at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She also won 11 U.S. National Championships: 3 Elite (Points race, Criterium, Kilometer Time Trial), 3 Collegiate (Criterium, 500 Meter Time Trial, Track Omnium), and 5 Mixed Tandem (Pursuit, 2 x Kilometer Time Trial, 2 x Match Sprints). Her cycling career began while attending Indiana University in Bloomington where she won the 1991 Women's Little 500. Career highlights 2000 * GP Feminin International du Quebec: First, second, and third place stage finishes * GP Feminin International du Quebec: Most aggressive rider award * USA Cycling's ( USAC) Olympic Long Team, Road * Selected to receive one of 100 Olympic Edition Commemorative vehicles through the UAW-GM ''The Team Behind The Team'' program in conjunction wit ...
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Gabriella Pregnalato
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Diana Žiliūtė
Diana Žiliūtė (; born 28 May 1976 in Rietavas) is a Lithuanian racing cyclist who dominated women's road racing in the late 1990s. She made her debut in the pro cycling ranks in the mid-1990s after winning the 1994 World Junior Road Race Championship. She rose to the top of women's cycling in 1998 when she won two UCI Women's Road World Cup, World Road Cup races, the overall World Road Cup title, and capped the season by winning the World Championship of Road Cycling (women), World Road Race Championships and leading the UCI Women's Road World Rankings. The following year (1999), she further demonstrated her all around prowess by winning the Grande Boucle, one of the hardest stage races in women's cycle racing history. This was followed in 2000 by a bronze medal at the Summer Olympics. For her achievements, Žiliūtė was awarded the Order of Gediminas, a Lithuanian state honor. Palmarès ;1994 :1994 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships ::1st Junior ...
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Karen Kurreck
Karen Brems Kurreck (born June 13, 1962 in Urbana, Illinois) is a graduate of Urbana High School and the University of Illinois. As a racing cyclist, she is best known for winning the inaugural women's individual time trial at the 1994 UCI Road World Championships in Catania, Italy. Kurreck represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Prior to her cycling career, Brems was a collegiate gymnast at the University of Illinois where in 1984 she became the first Illini athlete to be named as the school’s Athlete of the Year and the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor Award winner in the same season. Since 2011, Brems has concentrated on the Cyclocross discipline. She won two consecutive 50+ Masters World Championships in 2012 and 2013, and several Masters 50+ championship jerseys at US Cross Nationals including: in 2013 (Master 50-54) in Louisville, Kentucky; in 2015 (Master 50-54) in Austin, Texas; in 2016 (Master 50-54) in Asheville, North Ca ...
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Rasa Polikevičiūtė
Rasa Polikevičiūtė (born September 25, 1970 in Panevėžys) is a Lithuanian cycle racer. One of her Lithuanian cycling contemporaries is her identical twin, Jolanta Polikevičiūtė. She began cycling at age 13 under the influence of her childhood athletic coach and made her professional debut in 1990. Her top results in the years to come would include an overall victory at the 1997 Women's Challenge and a victory in the 2001 World Road Race Championships. Besides her native Lithuanian, Rasa also speaks Russian, Italian, and French. Palmarès ;1993 *GP de la Mutualite Haute Garonne - 3rd place *Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin - stage victory *Berlin Rundfahrt - 1st place, 2 stage victories *Druzhba - 1st place, stage victory *Velka Cena Presova - 2nd place, stage victory ;1994 *World Team Time Trial Championships - 2nd place *GP Kanton Zurich - 1st place, 1 stage victory *Masters Feminin - 2nd place, 1 stage victory * Tour Cycliste Feminin - 2nd place, 2 stage victories * ...
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Edita Pučinskaitė
Edita Pučinskaitė (born November 27, 1975 in Naujoji Akmenė) is a Lithuanian racing cyclist. For many years, she was one of the top competitors in women's road racing with a victory in the World Road Race Championships in 1999 and several high finishes in major tours, world championships and the UCI points listings. Major results ;1994 : 1st Overall Etoile Vosgienne ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Anneville-sur-Scie Road Race ;1995 : 3rd Road Race, UCI Road World Championships ;1996 : 2nd Vertemate con Minoprio : 8th Road Race, UCI Road World Championships : 9th Trofeo Alfredo Binda ;1997 : 1st Liberty Classic : 3rd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile : 4th Vertemate con Minoprio ;1998 : National Road Championships ::1st Road Race ::1st Time Trial : 1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale ::1st Stages 1, 3 & 4 : 1st Overall Thüringen-Rundfahrt der Frauen ;1999 : UCI Road World Championships ::1st Road Race ::3rd Time Trial : 1st Time Trial, National Road Champion ...
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Karen Livingston
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Jacqui Nelson
Jacqueline "Jacqui" Nelson (formerly Morgan; born 26 May 1965) is a cyclist from New Zealand. At the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona she came 10th in the 3000 m pursuit. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games at Victoria, B.C. she came 2nd in the points race and 3rd in the 3000 m pursuit, winning silver and bronze medals. At the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ... at Atlanta she came 8th in the points race and 20th in the time trial. References * ''Black Gold'' by Ron Palenski (2008, 2004 New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, Dunedin) p. 69 External links *Jacqui Nelson at the SR Sports Reference website 1965 births Living people New Zealand track cyclists New Zealand female cyclists Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics ...
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Jeannie Golay
Jeanne Marie Golay (born April 16, 1962) is an American former road bicycle racing professional from Coral Gables, Florida. She won the 1992, 1994 and 1995 United States National Road Race Championships, and the 1992 world team time-trial championship, and competed in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In 2008, in Davis California, she was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in the category Modern Road & Track Competitor.usbhof.org/inductees In Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a training and exercise trail formerly known as Red Mountain Trail has been renamed the ''Jeanne Golay Trail''. Major results ;1988 * 1st place in USA National Rankings, USA. ;1989 * 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Individual (ITT), USA. ; 1990 * 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Team (TTT), USA. Tested positive for steroids in 1990, pulled from TTT Team ; 1991 * 1st place in Tour of the Alpine Banks, USA. * 1st place in National ...
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