Jeanne Marie Golay (born April 16, 1962) is an American former
road bicycle racing
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professional from
Coral Gables, Florida
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. 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
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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.
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In
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
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, 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 National Time Trial Championships – Team (TTT), USA.
* 1st place in Pan American Games (TTT), Cuba.
* 1st place in Pan American Games (RR), Cuba.
* 1st place in Brick Criterium, USA
;1992
* 1st place in Westfriese Tweedaagse, Holland.
* 1st place in Brecht, Belgium.
* 1st place in Omloop Van Het Molenheike, Holland.
* 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Individual (ITT), USA.
* 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Team (TTT), USA.
* 1st place in
National Road Championships, USA.
* 1st place in World Time Trial Championships – Team (TTT), Spain.
*
USCF Athlete of the Year Award.
; 1993
* 1st place in Mike Nields Memorial, USA.
* 1st place in International Idaho Women's Challenge, USA.
* 1st place in Athens Zanesville, USA.
; 1994
* 1st place in Redlands Bicycle Classic, USA.
* 1st place in Dole Cycling Classic, USA.
* 1st place in Electricity City Challenge, USA.
* 1st place in Tour of Somerville, USA.
* 1st place in
National Road Championships, USA.
* 1st place in Korbel Champagne Cup Series, USA.
* 1st place in USA National Rankings.
* 3rd place in
UCI Road World Championships – Women's Road Race
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; 1995
* 1st place in Pan American Games, (RR), Argentina.
* 1st place in Sequoia Cycling Classic, USA.
* 1st place in
National Road Championships, USA.
* 1st place in Frigidaire Cycling Classic, USA.
* 1st place in Colorado Cycling Classic, USA.
* 1st place in Fresca Cup, USA.
* 1st place in USA National Rankings.
;1996
* 1st place in Valley of the Sun, USA.
* 1st place in National Criterium Championships, USA.
References
External links
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1962 births
Living people
American female cyclists
UCI Road World Champions (women)
American cycling road race champions
Olympic cyclists for the United States
Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Coral Gables, Florida
University of Florida alumni
Cyclists at the 1991 Pan American Games
Cyclists at the 1995 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in cycling
20th-century American sportswomen
Cyclists from Florida