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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 spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously (though sometimes with a Handicapping, handicap) and race to a set finish point; and time trials, where individual time trial, individual riders or team time trial, teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively. Professional racing originated in Western Europe, centred in France, Spain, Italy and the Low Countries. Since the mid-1980s, the sport has diversified, with races held at the professional, semi-professional and amateur levels, worldwide. The sport is governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). As w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leontien Van Moorsel
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 successfull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiane Soeder
Christiane Soeder (born 15 January 1975 in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German-born Austrian road racing cyclist and former duathlete who now lives in Vienna. She won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 2004, 2006 and 2009. She finished fourth in the 2008 Olympic road race with a time of 3h 32′ 28. She rides professionally for . Palmarès ;2002 : GP Schwarzwald ;2003 :National Road Championships (German) ::2nd Road Race ::2nd Time Trial ;2004 :National Road Championships ::1st Road Race ::1st Time Trial :1st Stage 3 Tour de Krasna Lipa :3rd Luk Challenge ;2005 :National Road Championships ::1st Time Trial ::2nd Road Race :2nd Souvenir Magali Pache :3rd Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin de la Drôme ::1st Prologue & Stage 3a (TTT) :3rd Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale ::1st Stage 2 ;2006 :National Road Championships ::1st Road Race ::1st Time Trial :1st The Ladies Golden Hour :1st Stage 1 Geelong Tour :1st Prologue Thüring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Pooley
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List Of Women's Road Bicycle Races
This is a list of women's road cycling races. The list only includes the most important women's road races, and no track, mountain or cyclo-cross races. Championships * UCI Road World Championships: road race, time trial, team time trial * African Cycling Championships: road race, time trial * Asian Cycling Championships: road race, time trial * European Road Championships (U23): road race, time trial * Oceanian Cycling Championships: road race, time trial * Pan American Championships: road race, time trial * National Championships: road race, time trial UCI Women's WorldTour This series replaced the UCI Women's Road World Cup in 2016. Unlike its predecessor, it also features stage races. Current WorldTour races Historical overview of World Cup races (1998–2015) One-day races (below WorldTour) Current races Non-UCI races ;Netherlands * Acht van Chaam, professional criterium * Draai van de Kaai, professional criterium * Gouden Pijl, professional criterium * Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cycle Races In France
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