|
Sea Otter Classic
The Sea Otter Classic is a bicycling and outdoor sports festival and exposition held each spring since 1991 at the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. The four-day event is considered the world's largest cycling festival, drawing nearly 10,000 professional and amateur athletes and 74,000 fans. The Sea Otter Classic is named in honor of the southern sea otter The sea otter (''Enhydra lutris'') is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean. Adult sea otters typically weigh between , making them the heaviest members of the weasel family, but among the small ..., an indigenous mammal which flourishes along the neighboring Pacific coast. The Sea Otter Classic was founded by Frank Yohannan and Lou Rudolph. The inaugural event was held 06–07 April 1991. The first two events were held under the name Laguna Seca Challenge. The event name was changed to the Sea Otter Classic in 1993. In August 2021, Frank Yohanna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Trebon Sea Otter 2009
Ryan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Ryan (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) *Ryan (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Places Australia * Division of Ryan, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland *Ryan, New South Wales *Ryan, Queensland, a suburb of the City of Mount Isa United States *Ryan, California *Ryan, former name of Lila C, California *Ryan, Iowa *Ryan, Minnesota *Ryan, Illinois *Ryan, Oklahoma *Ryan, Washington *Ryan, West Virginia *Ryan Park, Wyoming *Ryan Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Film, radio, television and web * ''Ryan'' (film), an animated documentary * ''Ryan'' (TV series), 1970s Australian TV series *''Von Ryan's Express'', a 1965 World War II adventure film Other uses *Ryan M-1, an airplane *Ryan Aeronautical Company (Claude Ryan) *Ryanair (Tony Ryan) *Ryan Field (other) *Ryan International Airlines (Ron Ryan) *Ryan Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nate English
Nate or NATE may refer to: People and fictional characters *Nate (given name) *A nickname for Nathanael *A nickname for Nathaniel Organizations *National Association for the Teaching of English, the UK subject teacher association for all aspects of English from pre-school to university *National Association of Theatrical Television and Kine Employees, formerly the National Association of Theatrical Employees Other uses *Nakajima Ki-27, Japanese aircraft of World War II, called "Nate" *Tropical Storm Nate (other) *Nate (web portal), South Korean web portal *Nate Station, a train station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan *''Nate'', a 2006 novel by Phil Henderson *''Nate – A One Man Show'', a performance by Natalie Palamides See also * *Nat (other) Nat or NAT may refer to: Computing * Network address translation (NAT), in computer networking Organizations * National Actors Theatre, New York City, U.S. * National AIDS trust, a British charity * N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Alexander
Caroline Sarah J. Alexander (born 3 March 1968) is a cross-country mountain biker and road cyclist born in Barrow-in-Furness. She was a swimmer as a child and did not cycle until she was 20. She first rode a bike in competition in a triathlon: she came second in the swimming and was fastest on the bike. She entered her first mountain bike race, which she won. Within a year she was one of the top three mountain-bike racers in the UK. She left her job as a draughtswoman in Barrow shipyards and became a full-time cyclist. She represented Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She was a reserve for the British Cycling team at the 2001 UCI road world championships Alexander also represented Britain at the UCI Women's Road World Cup events in 2002. Alexander represented Scotland in the first mountain-bike event in the Commonwealth Games in 2002. She was the first British female mountain biker to win a UCI World Cup stage in 1997. Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bart Brentjens
Bart Jan-Baptist Marie Brentjens (born 10 October 1968 in Haelen) is a Dutch racing cyclist in mountain biking. Brentjens won a gold medal for mountain biking in the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first to recognize cross-country mountain biking as an event. He followed this with bronze in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Previously he won gold at the 1995 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships. In 2007 he became 10th time Dutch National champion Brentjens competed in Men's category of the Absa Cape Epic in 2005, winning 1st place overall with team mate Roel Paulissen. In 2009 he won 2nd place overall, this time competing alongside Chris Jongewaard. Brentjens then began competing in the Master's category. He won the category in both 2012 with Jan Weevers and in 2014 with Abraao Azevedo. He has completed the marathon stage race ten times to date. Brentjens, along with Rob Warner, is also a co-commentator for Red Bull TV's official coverage of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup (XCO). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Green (cyclist)
Roland Green (born 29 July 1974 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a retired Canadian mountain bike and road bicycle racer. Green was a member of the Canadian Olympic Mountain Bike Racing Team for the 2000 Summer Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia. He was a Commonwealth gold medalist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ..., winning the MTB event on the same day as his birthday. Green dominated the world cup circuit of cross-country mountain biking from 2000 until 2003, becoming world champion in both 2001 and 2002. Roland also is the record holder of the Mount Doug Hill climb in his hometown of Victoria BC, Canada with a fast 4Min. 39sec which nobody has broken in 10 years. He was named VeloNews' ''Mountain Bike Man o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Dunlap
Alison Dunlap (born July 27, 1969) is an American professional cyclist. She won the world cross-country mountain bike championship in 2001 and two Mountain Bike World Cup races. She also won the Redlands Bicycle Classic on the road in 1996. Dunlap represented the United States in the road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the cross-country mountain bike event at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Major achievements * UCI Tissot Mountain Bike World Cup Champion (2002) * UCI Mountain Bike Cross Country (XC) World Champion (2001) * Olympic Games 2000: mountain bike, 7th * Olympic Games 1996: road race * Pan American Games: gold medallist (cross country): (1999) * 3x National cross-country champion: (1999, 2002, 2004) * 3x National short-track cross-country champion: (1999, 2002, 2004) * 6x National cyclo-cross champion: (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003) * National Road and Omnium Collegiate champion: (1991) * U.S. Olympic Festival gold medallist (road race) (1993) * UCI Tissot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Meirhaeghe
Filip Meirhaeghe (born 5 March 1971"Rider Profile: Filip Meiraeghe" ''cyclingnews.com''. Retrieved 19 December 2010. in ) is a retired . His primary focus was in , however, he has also taken part in elite |
Alison Sydor
Alison Jane Sydor (born September 9, 1966) is a Canadian retired professional cross-country mountain cyclist. She began cycling at age 20 and is a graduate of the University of Victoria. She won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in mountain bike, and has won three world mountain bike championships gold medals (1994 in Vail, Colorado; 1995 in Kirchzarten, Germany; and 1996 in Cairns, Australia) and the 2002 relay race in Kaprun, Austria. Sydor has also won five silver medals (1992, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2003) and three bronze (1998, 1999 (relay race), 2004) at mountain bike world championships, and one bronze at the road world championships (1991). In addition, Sydor has won 17 World Cup (cross-country) races in her career, and for 13 consecutive years (1992–2004) never finished outside of the top-5 at the world championships. In 1995 and 1996, Sydor was awarded the Velma Springstead Trophy as Canada's top female athlete. In September 2007 Sydor was inducted into th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Bajadali
Andrew Bajadali (born May 1, 1973 in Boulder, Colorado) is an American former professional cyclist, who now works as a directeur sportif for UCI ProTeam , and UCI Women's Continental Team . Major results ;2005 : 1st Overall Tour of Utah : 1st Overall Boulder Stage Race : 2nd Overall Mount Hood Cycling Classic ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Tour de Nez : 2nd Nevada City Classic ;2006 : 1st Tri-Peaks Challenge : 3rd Tour de Toona ;2007 : 1st Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic : 1st Overall Tri-Peaks Challenge ::1st Stage 5 ;2008 : 2nd Overall Tour des Pyrénées : 2nd Tour de Nez ;2009 : 1st Overall Tour of Thailand : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;2012 : 2nd Tobago Cycling Classic The Tobago Cycling Classic is a one-day Road bicycle racing, road bicycle race held annually in Tobago, the smaller of the two main List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, islands that make up the Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tob ... References External links * 1973 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer (born October 24, 1973) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He was twice US national champion, winning the time trial title in 1999 and the road race in 2007, and is an Olympic medalist. Leipheimer was born and raised in Butte, Montana and resides in Santa Rosa, California. He is the patron of the widely attended King Ridge GranFondo, a mass participation ride in Sonoma County. Leipheimer's major career accomplishments include winning the 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of the Tour of California, the 2011 Tour de Suisse and the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge. His Grand Tour results include 2nd in the 2008 Vuelta a España, and 4th in the 2009 Giro d'Italia. Leipheimer won the bronze medal in the time trial at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced in October 2012 that Leipheimer would be suspended for his involvement in doping while riding for Saturn, U.S. Postal Service, Rabobank, Gerols ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Mach
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people *Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, Byzan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
