Catherine Marsal (born 20 January 1971) is a French former
racing cyclist
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. She has been
World Champion
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four times and raced professionally around the world. At the age of 17 she was selected for the French Olympic Team for the first time. Since then, she represented her native country at four
Summer Olympics
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:
1988
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,
1992
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,
1996
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, and
2000
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.
Marsal retired from cycling in 2005 when she was recruited by Team SATS Cycling to become sports director for the Danish team. The team became number one on the
UCI ranking. In April 2015 Marsal was hired by the
Danish Cycling Union to be the national coach of the Danish female cycling team.
Marsal currently works as a
directeur sportif
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for
UCI Women's Continental Team .
Personal life
Marsal is married and lives in Copenhagen. She gave birth to a son in 2013.
Palmares
;1987
:1st
![Jersey rainbow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Jersey_rainbow.svg)
Road Race,
UCI Junior Road World Championships
:2nd Individual pursuit,
UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships
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;1988
:1st
![Jersey rainbow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Jersey_rainbow.svg)
Individual pursuit,
UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships
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:1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Tour de Bretagne
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:3rd Points race, National Track Championships
:10th
Olympic Games
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Time Trial
;1989
:1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Tour de Bretagne
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:
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
::2nd Road Race
::3rd Team Time Trial
:2nd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
;1990
:1st
![Jersey rainbow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Jersey_rainbow.svg)
Road Race,
UCI Road World Championships
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Events
...
:1st
![MaillotFra](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/MaillotFra.PNG)
Road Race, National Road Championships
:1st
![Jersey pink](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Jersey_pink.svg)
Overall
Giro d'Italia Femminile
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:1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
The Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin was the longest running UCI event on the women's elite cycle racing calendar. It had been held annually in the Aude
Aude (; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occi ...
:1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Tour of Norway
The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held annually in Norway. It is considered as a successor to the stage race Ringerike GP, which is now a one-day race. It was started in 2011 as a result of the heightened interest in cycling in Norway, ma ...
::1st Stage 7
:4th
Tour de Okinawa
The is an annual professional road bicycle racing classic one-day race held in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It was first started in 1989 as an amateur race, but became professional in 1999. It became part of the UCI Asia Tour
The UCI Continental ...
;1991
:1st
![Jersey rainbow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Jersey_rainbow.svg)
Team Time Trial,
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
:2nd Overall
Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
The Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin was the longest running UCI event on the women's elite cycle racing calendar. It had been held annually in the Aude
Aude (; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occi ...
;1992
:2nd Team Time Trial,
UCI Road World Championships
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Events
...
:2nd
Coppa delle Nazioni
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;1993
:2nd Road Race, National Road Championships
;1994
:1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
The Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin was the longest running UCI event on the women's elite cycle racing calendar. It had been held annually in the Aude
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::1st Stage 8
:1st
Calan
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* Călan
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Road Race
:2nd Overall
Tour de Bretagne
Tour de Bretagne Cycliste, also known as the Tour de Bretagne trophée des granitiers and formerly known as Ruban Granitier Breton, is an annual early season professional cycling stage race held in late April and early May in Brittany, France. T ...
:2nd Overall
Tour du Finistère
Tour du Finistère is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April around the city of Quimper, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, also being part of the Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route ...
::1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 4
;1995
:
Hour record
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:1st Stage 8
Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
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:2nd Road Race,
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
:National Road Championships
::2nd Road Race
::2nd Time Trial
:National Track Championships
::2nd Individual pursuit
::2nd Points race
;1996
:1st
![MaillotFra](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/MaillotFra.PNG)
Road Race, National Road Championships
:National Track Championships
::3rd Individual pursuit
::3rd Points race
:3rd Overall
Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
The Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin was the longest running UCI event on the women's elite cycle racing calendar. It had been held annually in the Aude
Aude (; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occi ...
:10th Road Race,
UCI Road World Championships
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Events
...
;1997
:National Road Championships
::1st
![MaillotFra](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/MaillotFra.PNG)
Time Trial
::3rd Road Race
:National Track Championships
::1st
![MaillotFra](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/MaillotFra.PNG)
Individual pursuit
::1st
![MaillotFra](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/MaillotFra.PNG)
Points race
:2nd
Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (Championship of Flanders) or Koolskamp Koerse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Koolskamp (part-municipality of Ardooie), West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a ...
:3rd Road Race,
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay.
Events
...
;1998
:2nd
Trophée International de Saint-Amand-Mont-Rond
:3rd Overall
Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
The Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin was the longest running UCI event on the women's elite cycle racing calendar. It had been held annually in the Aude
Aude (; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occi ...
:3rd
La Flèche Wallonne
La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium.
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...
;1999
:1st
![MaillotFra](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/MaillotFra.PNG)
Points Race, National Track Championships
:2nd Time Trial, National Road Championships
:3rd
Ronde van Drenthe
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;2000
:2nd Road Race, National Road Championships
:2nd
Boucles Nontronnaises
;2001
:3rd Road Race, National Road Championships
;2002
:1st Stage 1
Vuelta Castilla y Leon
:1st Stage 3
Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
The Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin was the longest running UCI event on the women's elite cycle racing calendar. It had been held annually in the Aude
Aude (; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occi ...
;2004
:3rd
GP des Nations
References
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1971 births
Living people
French female cyclists
Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists of France
Sportspeople from Metz
UCI Road World Champions (women)
Cyclists from Grand Est
20th-century French women
21st-century French women