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Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
Various professional women's cycle stage races across France have been held as an equivalent to the Tour de France for women, with the first of these races staged as a one off in 1955. From 1984, a women's Tour de France was staged consistently, although the name of the event changed several times - such as Tour de France Féminin, Tour of the EEC Women, Tour Cycliste Féminin and Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale. Over the years, the races struggled with various issues including financial difficulties, limited media coverage, sexism and trademark difficulties with Amaury Sport Organisation (the organisers of the Tour de France). The last Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale took place in 2009. In 2014, following criticism and campaigning from the professional peloton, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) - the organiser of the Tour de France - launched a one-day race for the professional peloton (La Course by Le Tour de France). In 2022, La Course was replaced by Tour de Fran ...
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Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale 1993 Yellow Jersey (Heidi Van De Vijver)
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European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty. aiming to foster economic integration among its member states. It was subsequently renamed the European Community (EC) upon becoming integrated into the Three pillars of the European Union, first pillar of the newly formed European Union (EU) in 1993. In the popular language, the singular ''European Community'' was sometimes inaccurately used in the wider sense of the plural ''European Communities'', in spite of the latter designation covering all the three constituent entities of the first pillar. The EEC was also known as the European Common Market (ECM) in the English-speaking countries, and sometimes referred to as the European Community even before it was officially renamed as such in 1993. In 2009, the EC formally ceased to ...
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Aleksandra Koliaseva
Aleksandra Ivanovna Koliaseva (, born 18 August 1968) is a former Soviet Union and Russian road racing cyclist. She won a gold medal at the UCI Road World Championships in the team time trial in 1993 and 1994 and a bronze medal in 1992. In 1995 she became Russian national champion in the road race and in 1996 she won the Tour de l'Aude. She is the mother of racing cyclist Pavel Sivakov. Sources ;1989 :2nd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile ;1993 :1st World Time Trial Championships ;1994 :1st World Time Trial Championships :1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin ;1995 :1st Overall Masters Féminin :1st National Road Race Championship ;1996 :1st Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin The Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin was the longest running UCI event on the women's elite cycle racing calendar. It had been held annually in the Aude Aude ( ; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Oc ... :1st Wiesbaden Criteri ...
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Roberta Bonanomi
Roberta Bonanomi (born 15 October 1966) is a retired racing cyclist from Italy. She represented her native country at five Summer Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000. Her biggest achievements were winning the 1989 Giro d'Italia Femminile and the world title in the women's team time trial (1988), alongside Maria Canins, Monica Bandini, and Francesca Galli. Major results 1982 :1st Road Race, National Junior Road Championships ;1983 :2nd Vertemate con Minoprio ;1986 :5th Vertemate con Minoprio ;1987 :3rd Pernod–Super Prestige :3rd Team Time Trial, UCI Road World Championships :5th Vertemate con Minoprio :10th Overall Tour of Norway ;1988 :1st Team Time Trial, UCI Road World Championships :4th Vertemate con Minoprio ;1989 :1st Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile :1st Overall Tour of Norway ::1st Stage 5 :2nd Team Time Trial, UCI Road World Championships :4th Vertemate con Minoprio ;1990 :1st GP Conad :2nd Vertemate con Minoprio ;1991 :1st Time Tr ...
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Astrid Schop
Astrid is a given name of Scandinavian origin, a modern form of the name Ástríðr. Derived from the Old Norse Ássfriðr, a compound name composed of the elements (a god) and (beautiful, fair). Variants * * Assan (diminutive) (Swedish) * Asta (diminutive) (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish. Estonian, Finnish, Lithuanian) * Astrid (Swedish, Dutch, Danish, German, Norwegian, Estonian, French, Spanish) * Astrida (Lithuanian) * Astride (French, Portuguese) * Ástríður (Icelandic) * Astrithr (North Germanic The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is also r ...) * Astrud (Brazilian Portuguese) * Ásta (Icelandic) * Ástride, Astride (Portuguese) * Sassa (diminutive) (Swedish) People Arts and culture * Astrid Roelants, Belgian singer * Astrid Allwyn (1905–1978), American actress * ...
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Leontien Van Moorsel
Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970) is a Dutch retired racing cyclist. She was a dominant cyclist in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games and holding the hour record for women from 2003 until 2015. Career Van Moorsel started her career in 1977. She won major races both on the track, and on the road. In the first half of the 1990s, she won the Tour Féminin twice, after fierce competition with Jeannie Longo. Van Moorsel dropped out of cycling in 1994 with anorexia nervosa but recovered to compete at the World Championships in 1998, winning the time trial and coming second in the road race. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, van Moorsel won gold medals on the road (road race and time trial), and on the track (3 km pursuit). At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she fell in the penultimate lap of the road race and was stretchered off and taken to the hospital by ambulance, but nevertheless successful ...
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Catherine Marsal
Catherine Marsal (born 20 January 1971) is a French former racing cyclist. She has been World Champion four times and raced professionally around the world. At the age of 17 she was selected for the French Olympic Team for the first time. Since then, she represented her native country at four Summer Olympics: 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000. Marsal retired from cycling in 2005 when she was recruited by Team SATS Cycling to become sports director for the Danish team. The team became number one on the UCI ranking. In April 2015 Marsal was hired by the Danish Cycling Union to be the national coach of the Danish female cycling team. Marsal currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Women's Continental Team . Personal life Marsal is married and lives in Copenhagen. She gave birth to a son in 2013. Palmares ;1987 :1st Road Race, UCI Junior Road World Championships :2nd Individual pursuit, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships ;1988 :1st Individual pursuit, UCI Ju ...
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Elizabeth Hepple
Elizabeth Hepple (born 7 July 1959) is an Australian former cyclist. She was the first Australian ever to take the podium at Tour de France, placing third in 1988. She competed in the women's individual road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In the same year, she also placed third in the Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale and second in the Giro d'Italia Femminile The is an annual women's cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men's Giro d'Italia. The race was previously .... She placed first in the 1990 Noosa Triathlon, with a time of 2:07:35. References External links * 1959 births Living people Australian female cyclists Olympic cyclists for Australia Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian sportswomen {{Australia-cycling-bio-stub ...
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Ute Enzenauer
Ute Enzenauer (born 18 January 1965) is a former West German road racing cyclist active from 1981 to 1987. Born in Ludwigshafen-Friesenheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Enzenauer was selected from school at age 9 as a cyclist. She won the West German National Championships in 1979 and 1980. In 1981 she became the youngest World Champion ever, winning Women's World Road Championships at age 16. She raced the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California finishing 8th. After finishing 3rd place overall in 1987 Women's Tour de France (Grande Boucle Grande means "large" or "great" in many of the Romance languages. It may also refer to: Places *Grande, Germany, a municipality in Germany * Grande Communications, a telecommunications firm based in Texas *Grande-Rivière (other) *Arroi ...), she retired from the sport. References External links * 1965 births Living people German female cyclists Olympic cyclists for West Germany West German female cyclists Cyclists at the ...
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Inga Thompson
Kristin Inga Thompson (born January 27, 1964) is a retired road bicycle racer. She competed at the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympics with the best result of eighth place in 1988. She won silver medals at the UCI Road World Championships in 1987, 1990 and 1991, and placed third at the Tour de France in 1986 and 1989. Nationally she won United States National Road Race Championships in 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1993. Inga Thompson was inducted into the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2014. Activism In 2019 Thompson obtained the signatures of over 80 Olympians on a petition to the IOC to limit women's categories to cisgender women. She maintains that women's voices have been silenced. Thompson continues her work with Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Alison Sydor, Martina Navratilova, Sharron Davies, and many prominent women athletes to advocate for categories separated by sex. Also in 2019 Thompson was interviewed for an article opposing participation of transgender women in women's cycling ev ...
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Cécile Odin
Cécile Odin (born 4 October 1965) is a French international cyclist active from 1983 to 1996. Odin raced in two Olympic Games, Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988, finishing 11th & 28th in the Women's Road Race. She made 3rd place overall in the Women's Tour de France (Grande Boucle Grande means "large" or "great" in many of the Romance languages. It may also refer to: Places *Grande, Germany, a municipality in Germany * Grande Communications, a telecommunications firm based in Texas *Grande-Rivière (other) *Arroi ...) in 1985 and 1994, winning stage 6 in 1994. She won a World Championship in 1991 as part of the French Women's Team Time Trial Team. References External links * 1965 births Living people Sportspeople from Beauvais Cyclists from Oise French female cyclists Olympic cyclists for France Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics UCI Road World Champions (women) 20th-century French sportswomen {{France-cycli ...
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