Yvonne McGregor

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(born 9 April 1961) is a female English former professional cyclist from

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. She was made an

, for services to cycling, in the

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Cycling career

McGregor competed in running until the age of 28, coming eighth at the 1988 world

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championship, and did not ride a bicycle until she was 17. She started cycling competitively in

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, finishing third in the British championship in 1990, and focused on it when she injured her

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. In 1993 she broke

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's 20-year-old British 10 mile time-trial record with 21 minutes 15 seconds. She scored her first major success when she won the points race at the

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. On 17 June 1995 in Manchester she set an

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for women at 47.411 km. McGregor broke Burton's 25-mile time-trial record in 1996, setting 51 minutes 30 seconds. She missed out on a medal at the

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, finishing fourth in the pursuit. However she took the bronze in the same event at the

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, thus winning the first Olympic Medal in any cycling discipline by a female British rider. She then won the pursuit at the 2000 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in

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less than two months later. Following changes to the hour record which disallowed the bike and position she used to set the record in 1995, McGregor set a European and sea-level hour record of 43.689 km on 13 April 2002. This remained the British record until

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surpassed it in 2015. This ended McGregor's competitive cycling career. Since retiring she has worked as a sports massage therapist.

Palmarès

;1994 :

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::1st Points race ::3rd Team time trial (with Maxine Johnson,

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and Julia Freeman) :1st Pursuit,

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:1st

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;1995 : World

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: 47.411 km :1st Pursuit,

;1996 :1st Pursuit,

;1997 :1st Pursuit,

:3rd Pursuit, UCI Track World Championships, Women :3rd Round 4,

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;1998 :1st Pursuit,

:3rd Pursuit,

1998 Commonwealth Games The 1998 Commonwealth Games ''(Malay: Sukan Komanwel 1998)'', officially known as the XVI Commonwealth Games ''(Malay: Sukan Komanwel ke-16)'', was a multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This edition is marked by several unprecedent ...

;1999 :1st Pursuit,

:2nd

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;2000 :1st Pursuit, UCI Track World Championships, Women :1st Pursuit,

:3rd Pursuit,

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:3rd

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:2nd Mexico Round,

2000 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2000 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. ...

;2001 :1st

:2nd Pursuit,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McGregor, Yvonne 1961 births Living people Olympic cyclists of Great Britain Cyclists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Members of the Order of the British Empire Olympic medalists in cycling Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England English female cyclists People from Wibsey UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women) Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling English track cyclists Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games