Grethe Monica Eikild Valen (born 15 September 1970) is a Norwegian
racing cyclist
Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling s ...
. She won the
Norwegian National Road Race Championship five times in the 1990s.
She was born in
Porsgrunn
is a city and municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Porsgrunn.
The municipality of Porsgrunn w ...
, and is the sister of
Anita Valen. She was married to
Svein Inge Valvik.
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She competed at the ]1992 Summer Olympics
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, where she placed fifth, and at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...
, where she placed 29th.1994 UCI Road World Championships
The 1994 UCI Road World Championships took place in Agrigento, Italy between 21-28 August 1994.
Events summary
References
{{UCI Road World Championships
UCI Road World Championships by year
World Championships
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.
References
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1970 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Porsgrunn
Norwegian female cyclists
Olympic cyclists of Norway
Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
UCI Road World Champions (women)
20th-century Norwegian women
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