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Rebecca Quinn (born May 24, 1971) is an American professional
racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, 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 ...
from
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. Quinn finished third in the 2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Women's scratch but was relegated as she had made contact with another rider during the sprint finish. Quinn took
USA Cycling USA Cycling or USAC, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the national governing body for bicycle racing in the United States. It covers the disciplines of road, track, mountain bike, cyclo-cross, and BMX across all ages and ability leve ...
to arbitration in a
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courtroom on July 9, 2008, after she was not selected as part of the squad for the
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in
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. She claimed that
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was selected in her place due to favoritism as Hammer is engaged to be married to the team coach, Andy Sparks. Although the court did not find in her favor, they did order USA Cycling to pay the costs as the actions of their coaches had caused legitimate doubt over the fairness of any rider being selected.


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;2004 :3rdScratch, 2004 Track World Cup,
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;2005 :1st Scratch,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
:2nd Keirin,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
:2nd Scratch, 2004–2005 Track World Cup,
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;2006 :2nd Points race,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
:2nd Scratch,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
:2nd Scratch, 2004–2005 Track World Cup,
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:2nd Points race, 2005–2006 Track World Cup,
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;2007 :1st Points race,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
:2nd Scratch,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
:2nd Team Pursuit,
US National Track Championships The United States National Track Championships are held annually. Organized by USA Cycling, they are competitions of various track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using ...
:2nd Scratch, 2006–2007 Track World Cup, Los Angeles ;2008 :5th Scratch,
UCI Track World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...


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Quinn's results on USA Cycling
1971 births Living people People from Quakertown, Pennsylvania Sportspeople from Bucks County, Pennsylvania American female cyclists American track cyclists 21st-century American sportswomen {{US-cycling-bio-stub