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Cycling At The 2000 Summer Olympics
Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 3 different bicycle racing disciplines were contested: Road cycling, track cycling, and mountain biking. Road cycling Track cycling Men Women Mountain biking Medal table Records broken OR = Olympic record, WR = World record Sources References External linksOfficial Olympic Report {{DEFAULTSORT:Cycling At The 2000 Summer Olympics 2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ... Events at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Sydney Parklands
The Western Sydney Parklands is an urban park system and a nature reserve located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The NSW government has spent around $400 million for the park. The park is governed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and is listed under the '' National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974''. The Parklands begin in the north in the City of Blacktown, cross the City of Fairfield, and end in the City of Liverpool. The parklands, being approximately in size and in length, are one of the largest in the world, and they would feature picnic areas, sports grounds and walking tracks. The parklands attract 430,000 to 790,000 visitors annually.WSPT Annual Visitor Monitoring 2009/2010 In addition, the parkland provided lands for the 2000 Olympic Games. History The Parkland was an area of specialty for the Darug people and it is still deemed as important by the Aboriginal Land Council. The Parkland has been visited by some early settlers, such as Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Olano
Abraham Olano Manzano (born 22 January 1970) is a Spanish retired professional road racing cyclist, who raced as a professional from 1992 to 2002. He won the UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, World Road Championship in 1995 UCI Road World Championships, 1995, and the UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial, World Time Trial Championship in 1998 UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial, 1998, becoming the first male cyclist to win both. He won Vuelta a España in 1998 Vuelta a España, 1998, was second in 1995 Vuelta a España, 1995, made it twice to the final podium at Giro d'Italia (third in 1996 Giro d'Italia, 1996 and second in 2001 Giro d'Italia, 2001), and placed three times in the top-ten at Tour de France, with the fourth place in 1997 Tour de France, 1997 as his personal best. In total he won six stages in the Vuelta and one in the Tour, all of them Individual time trial, time trials. Olano was also double Spanish Champion in both Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Martinello
Silvio Martinello (born 19 January 1963) is a retired road bicycle and track cyclist from Italy. He won the gold medal in the men's points race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, followed by the bronze medal in the men's madison in Sydney, Australia alongside Marco Villa. He was a professional rider from 1986 to 2000. Major results Road ;1983 : 1st Giro del Belvedere ;1989 : 2nd Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria : 3rd Trofeo Laigueglia ;1990 : 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España ;1991 : 1st Milano–Vignola : 1st Stage 18 Giro d'Italia : 1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico : 1st Stage 1 Giro del Trentino : 3rd Giro del Veneto : 7th Trofeo Pantalica : 8th Giro dell'Etna ;1992 : 1st Stage 3 Three Days of De Panne ;1993 : 3rd Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria ;1994 : 3rd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen : 3rd Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 5th GP Rik Van Steenbergen : 8th Scheldeprijs ;1996 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 1 ::Held after Stages 1–2 & 4–5 ::Held after S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Gilmore
Matthew Gilmore (born 11 September 1972 in Ghent) is a Belgian-Australian retired track cyclist, who mostly competed and was most successful on track for Belgium. Although Gilmore was born in and represented Belgium, he is the son of Australian racing cyclist Graeme Gilmore and competed with an Australian licence earlier in his career, changing to Belgium on 15 June 1998. Gilmore is also the nephew of British racing cyclist Tom Simpson. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics he won a silver medal in the men's madison event together with Etienne De Wilde. That year, he rode for Danish road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The ... Memory Card–Jack & Jones. Before that he rode for SPAR–RDM, and afterwards he changed to Vlaanderen–T Interim. External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott McGrory
Scott Anthony McGrory (born 22 December 1969) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. McGrory won a gold medal (with Brett Aitken) in the Madison at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, a silver in the Madison at the 1996 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester, and a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit. He represented Australia in the road race events at both the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (8th), and the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Career Scott started cycling in Albury-Wodonga, later moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland. He represented Queensland, South Australia and Victoria where he now resides. McGrory won his bronze medal in the team pursuit at the 1988 Summer Olympics at the age of 18. He turned Professional in 1994 for the Jayco Caravans Team, and won the Australian Professional Road Race Championship that year. In 1996 he signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Aitken
Brett Aitken (born 25 January 1971) is an Australian Olympic track cyclist. He has won three Olympic medals, including gold in the Madison event at the 2000 Olympics.Jones, Jeff & Stevenson, John (2006)Olympic gold medalist Aitken returns to cycling", CyclingNews.com, 18 February 2006, retrieved 24 January 2010 He retired from cycling in 2004, but returned in 2006 to ride on the Oceania Tour. On 16 January 2001, he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his gold medal-winning achievement. Aitken was born in Adelaide and was affiliated with the Adelaide Cycling Club. He was also an Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ... scholarship holder. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Fiedler (cyclist)
Jens Fiedler (born 15 February 1970) is a German triple Olympic champion and multiple world champion track cyclist. He retired from competitive cycling in early 2005. Major results Source: ;1992 : 1st Olympic Games, Sprint : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1993 : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1994 : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1995 : 1st National Championship, Sprint : 1st World Championship, Team sprint (with Michael Hübner, Jan van Eijden) ;1996 : 1st Olympic Games, Sprint : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1997 : 2nd World Championship, Sprint ;1998 : 1st National Championship, Sprint : 1st World Championship, Keirin : 2nd World Championship, Sprint ;1999 : 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with Jan van Eijden, Eyk Pokorny) : 1st National Championship, Sprint : 1st World Championship, Keirin ;2000 : 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with Jan van Eijden, Carsten Bergemann) : 3rd Olympic Games, Sprint : 3rd Olympic Games, Keirin : 2nd World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Neiwand
Gary Neiwand (born 4 September 1966) is an Australian retired track cyclist. He is a former world champion, who also won four Olympic medals during his career. Biography Early life and career Neiwand was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 4 September 1966, the son of Ronald Charles Neiwand. Neiwand represented his country at cycling for more than a decade. He was Commonwealth Games sprint champion in 1986 and won his first Olympic medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, winning bronze in the sprint event. He repeated his success at the Commonwealth Games in 1990, taking the gold in the sprint. Neiwand won his first World Championship medal in 1991 in Stuttgart, winning the bronze in the sprint. He then went on to become the World Champion in both the keirin and sprint in 1993. 1994 saw Neiwand complete a hat-trick, winning his successive third sprint gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. After cycling Neiwand spiralled into depression after missing his goal of a gold medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Rousseau
Florian Rousseau (born 3 February 1974) is a former French track cyclist who won three gold medals and one silver at the Summer Olympics (1996 and 2000). He was popular among spectators for the facial expressions he pulled - many of them seeming to make his eyes bulge - to help him concentrate at the start of races. In retirement he became one of France's national sprint coaches. Youth Rousseau spent much of his childhood and went to school in Patay. He began as a soccer player but, seeing no future in team sports, switched to cycling. He showed early talent on the track and joined the national sports institute, INSEP, in western Paris in 1990. He won the world junior kilometre championship in 1992 and the world senior championship in 1993 and 1994. Career Florian Rousseau's win in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, United States, started a golden period for French track cycling that lasted four years. He won the kilometre at Atlanta but dropped the discipline to become a sprinte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannie Longo
Jeannie Longo (born 31 October 1958) is a French racing cyclist, 6-time French champion and 13-time world champion. Longo began racing in 1975 and was active in cycling through 2012. She was once widely considered the best female cyclist of all time, although that reputation is now clouded by suspicion of doping throughout her career. She is famous for her competitive nature and her longevity in the sport – when she was selected to compete for France in the 2008 Olympics, it was her seventh Olympic Games; some of Longo's competitors that year had not yet been born when she took part in her first Olympics in 1984. She had stated that 2008 would be her final participation in the Olympics. In the Women's road race, she finished 24th, 33 seconds behind winner Nicole Cooke, who was one year old when Longo first rode in the Olympics. At the same Olympics, she finished 4th in the road time trial, just two seconds shy of securing a bronze medal. She is currently number two on the al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Holden
Mari Kim Holden (born March 30, 1971) is an American Olympic medalist and World Champion in the sport of cycling. She won a silver medal in the 2000 Olympic Games time trial in Sydney, Australia and the world time trial championship later that year. She also won six U.S. championships, becoming the first American woman to win three consecutive U.S. time trial championships (1998–2000) and scoring a double by winning the U.S. time trial and road championships in 1999. In 2016 she was inducted into the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame as a Modern Road and Track Competitor and presently works as a community director at USA Cycling. Career Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Holden was a two-time member of the U.S. junior world triathlon team, and was named junior triathlete of the year in 1991 by the Triathlon Federation USA. That year she finished seventh in the junior triathlon world championship. She began cycling with a club in high school as part of a fitness program centered on triathl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
