Deirdre Russell Murphy-Bader (14 January 1959 in

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, United States – 11 November 2014) was a

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who represented

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in international competitions, including the 2000 Olympic Games.

Career

Murphy began competitive cycling when she was 32. In 1997, she was the Women's World Masters champion in the road race discipline, and was also a two-time U.S. National Masters Champion. She competed for Ireland in the

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in 2000, cycling in the women's road race, and retired shortly afterwards at the age of 41. Murphy was the first Irish woman to qualify for the Olympic road race. Later, Murphy founded and served as Executive Director of Star Track Cycling, the New York-based youth program, which teaches track cycling skills to kids from under-resourced communities at Kissena Velodrome in Queens.

Personal life

Murphy was born in

, the child of Daniel Murphy and Sally Kandle, and went on to earn an undergraduate degree from

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. She married lawyer Lawrence Bader in 2002 and had one son, Ethan, before her death from cancer in 2014.

References

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Star Track Cycling
1959 births 2014 deaths Irish female cyclists Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Ireland Cyclists from New York City {{Ireland-cycling-bio-stub