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United States National Time Trial Championships
The United States National Time Trial Championships are held annually to decide the American champions in this cycling discipline, across various age and gender categories. Originally, in 1975, the time trial event distance was 25 miles. It later changed to 40 km, and still later changed to the current distance of 32.3 kilometers (20.1 miles). The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic cycling jersey which is red, white and blue, just like the national flag, these colors can be worn by the rider at other time trialling events in the country to show their status as national champion. The champion's stripes can be combined into a sponsored rider's team kit design for this purpose. In the past, professional riders were included in the United States Cycling Federation's Elite Men's National Time Trial Championship event. But since the professional aspect of the sport continues to grow in America, a separate championship for male professional riders was introduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Zabriskie2
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as "House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the ''Seder Olam Rabbah'', ''Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; page 32; Cambr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Rosskopf
Joseph Rosskopf (born September 5, 1989) is an American cyclist from Decatur, Georgia, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2024. Career A professional since 2010, Rosskopf was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España and the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia. He won the Tour du Limousin in 2016, and became the second rider from the Americas, after Leonardo Duque, to win the race. Rosskopf was the winner of the United States National Time Trial Championships in 2017 and 2018. In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France. In November 2020, Rosskopf signed a two-year contract with the team, from the 2021 season. Personal Rosskopf graduated from Decatur High School. Major results ;2011 : 2nd Overall Tour du Rwanda ::1st Stage 4 ;2012 : 4th Tour of the Battenkill : 9th Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic ;2013 : 1st Overall Paris–Arras Tour ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour de Beauce : 3rd Overall Flèche du Sud : 3rd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Small
Carmen Small (born April 22, 1980) is an American former racing cyclist, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Outside of cycling, Small was a founding member of The Cyclists' Alliance and served as vice director from 2018 to 2019. Major results Source: ;2008 : 8th Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs ;2010 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 10th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic ;2011 : 6th Time trial, National Road Championships ;2012 : 1st Classica Citta di Padova : 2nd Chrono Champenois : National Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::4th Time trial : 5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau : 7th Grand Prix de Dottignies : 7th Chrono Gatineau : 9th Overall The Exergy Tour ;2013 : UCI Road World Championships ::1st Team time trial (with Ellen van Dijk, Evelyn Stevens, Lisa Brennauer and Trixi Worrack) ::3rd Time trial : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Chrono Gatineau : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Belgium Tour : 1st Stage 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Stevens (cyclist)
Evelyn Lee Stevens (born May 9, 1983) is an American retired professional road bicycle racing, road cyclist. Early life Stevens was born in Claremont, California, but grew up in Acton, Massachusetts, where she attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. She studied government and women and gender studies at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and was a member of the college's tennis team. After graduating in 2005 she moved to New York City where she worked for Lehman Brothers for two years, then for mezzanine fund Gleacher Mezzanine before quitting in July 2009 to take up cycling full-time. Career She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's road race, women's road race, finishing 24th. In July 2014, Stevens competed at the 2014 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Giro d'Italia and 2014 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Thüringen Rundfahrt over 17 consecutive days of racing, finishing 14th and 1st respectively. On February 27, 2016, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Powers
Alison Powers is an American former racing cyclist who last rode for the UnitedHealthcare Women’s Team. Powers is the first American rider to simultaneously be National Champion in all three disciplines of road cycling (Criterium, Road and Time trial). On October 23, 2014, Powers announced her retirement from the sport. Palmares Source: ;2006 :1st Stage 4 Tour of the Gila :1st Prologue & Stage 5 Mount Hood Classic :1st Stage 1 Tour de Toona ;2007 :1st National Time Trial Championships :1st Pan American Time Trial Championships :1st Sequoia Cycling Classic :1st Stage 2 Tour de Toona :2nd National Track Championships (individual pursuit) :2nd National Track Championships (points race) :3rd Memorial Davide Fardelli Chrono ;2009 :1st Overall Joe Martin Stage Race ::1st Stages 1 & 4 :1st Boulder Criterium :2nd Overall Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Golay
Jeanne Marie Golay (born April 16, 1962) is an American former road bicycle racing professional from Coral Gables, Florida. She won the 1992, 1994 and 1995 United States National Road Race Championships, and the 1992 world team time-trial championship, and competed in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In 2008, in Davis California, she was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in the category Modern Road & Track Competitor.usbhof.org/inductees In Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a training and exercise trail formerly known as Red Mountain Trail has been renamed the ''Jeanne Golay Trail''. Major results ;1988 * 1st place in USA National Rankings, USA. ;1989 * 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Individual (ITT), USA. ; 1990 * 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Team (TTT), USA. Tested positive for steroids in 1990, pulled from TTT Team ; 1991 * 1st place in Tour of the Alpine Banks, USA. * 1st place in Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Heiden
Elizabeth Lee Heiden Reid (born September 27, 1959) is an American athlete who excelled in speed skating, cross-country skiing, and bicycle racing. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin. She was a speedskating bronze medalist at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, where her brother Eric won five speedskating gold medals. Biography In her first year of high school ( Madison West High School) Heiden was a tennis and soccer player. That same year, 1975, she ran a national record in the mile for her age and ran in states for both the 800 and the mile. She attended her first Olympics in 1976, at the age of 17. In 1979, she won the World Allround Speed Skating Championships, the second female American to do so. Kit Klein had been the first, winning the first official world championship in 1936. Heiden won a bronze medal in the 3,000 m at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, skating on an ankle injury that had bothered her for some time. In cycle racing, which she took up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyn Lemaire
Eleanor Lynette Lemaire (born July 6, 1951), also known as Lyn Lemaire, is an American former triathlete and championship cyclist. In 1979 she was the first woman to complete the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon, becoming the world's first female "Ironman" and – by default as the only woman in the race – the first female winner of the Ironman championship. She also held the U.S. women's record for the bicycle time trial. Early life and education Lemaire was born in Santa Monica, California, and educated at UCLA, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in biochemistry in 1974. At high school she entered four national swimming championships, and at UCLA she played all three positions in basketball. As a senior, she cycled from Vancouver to Los Angeles, and the following summer vacation she spent cycle touring around England and northern Europe. Bicycle racing achievements After finishing second in 1975, Lemaire won the U.S. National time trial championships in 1976, setting a new recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberly Baldwin
Kimberly Bruckner Baldwin (born June 19, 1970, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American road cyclist. She represented her nation at the 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2006 UCI Road World Championships The 2006 UCI Road World Championships took place in Salzburg, Austria, between September 19 and September 24, 2006. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23. The Men's road race saw Italian Olympic champi .... References External links * * 1970 births Living people American female cyclists Cyclists from Chicago Cyclists at the 2003 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in cycling 21st-century American sportswomen {{US-cycling-bio-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Twigg
Rebecca Twigg (born March 26, 1963) is an American former racing cyclist. Cycling career An academic prodigy, she enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle at the age of 14 and rode for the school's team. US national team coach Eddie Borysewicz saw her and invited her to join his team when she was 17. She earned degrees in biology and computer science from UW. Twigg won six world track cycling championships in the individual pursuit. She also won 16 US championships (the first – the individual time trial – when she was 18) and two Olympic medals, the silver medal in the 1984 road race in Los Angeles, and a bronze medal in the pursuit in Barcelona in 1992. She won the first three editions of the Women's Challenge on the road. Twigg was a three-time Olympian (1984, 1992, and 1996). However, her final Olympic appearance, in Atlanta in 1996, ended in controversy when she quit the team in a disagreement with the coach Chris Carmichael and the U.S. Cycling Federati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber Neben
Amber Leone Neben (born February 18, 1975) is an American racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team . Neben won the UCI world time trial championship in 2008 and 2016 as well as the U.S. national road race championship in 2003 and 2017. Career Early life At the age of four Neben survived a bout of spinal meningitis, which left her in a coma for three days. Doctors told her parents that she was unlikely to survive, and that if she did, she would probably have endured brain damage and have lost her hearing. Neben played soccer and ran cross-country in junior high and high school. She attended the University of Nebraska on a track and cross-country scholarship. Stress fractures stopped her running and she became an undergraduate assistant coach in distance running. She took up cycling after graduating from college with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. She then obtained a master's degree in biology from the University of California, Irvine, havin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
