Baiba Caune-Morzika (née Baiba Ābere; 12 August 1945 – 7 February 2014) was a Latvian track and road
racing cyclist
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. She won the silver medal at the
UCI Road World Championships
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Events
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in the
women's road race in
1968
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and
1974 representing USSR. She was a member of the sports club Marss, winning 55 Latvian national championships and two USSR championships.
Early life
Caune was born Baiba Ābere on 12 August 1945, in Stāmeriena parish, Latvia.
During the
Soviet mass deportation in 1949, Caune and her mother were deported to
Parabelsky District
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in
Tomsk Oblast
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,
Russia
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, and returned back to Latvia in 1955. She began cycling in the Irlava Secondary School. Soon she became a winner of numerous area school competitions, and received 4th Place at the Latvian SSR Spartakiad of Students.
Cycling career
In 1961 Caune began her early training as a cyclist at Tukums Sports School, under the direction of coach Uldis Mauriņš, and later she was trained by Ilmārs Janovs at Riga Central Cycling Club (CRK). In 1964 she passed the qualification test in track and road race. Since then she obtained 55 national championships, won the title of USSR Youth Championship in track, two USSR championships (1968 and 1969) and two silver medals at the UCI Road World Championships (1968 and 1974).
Caune worked as cycling coach at Salaspils Sports School from 1980 to 1997. During this time she trained ten professional women cyclists and three of them won the title of USSR Youth Championship (Ilona Krišāne, Elita Ivbulete and her daughter Dace Caune). In 1996 her student Māris Kalveršs joined the Latvian Olympic team and was prepared to compete at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in Atlanta.
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1945 births
Soviet female cyclists
Latvian female cyclists
2014 deaths