Ruthie Matthes (born November 11, 1965) is an American professional bicycle racer who won the
World Cross-Country Mountain Bike Championship in 1991. She is also a road cyclist, having twice finished in 2nd place in the
Women's Challenge
The Women's Challenge bicycle race (originally known as the Ore-Ida Women's Challenge as the lead sponsor was the Ore-Ida brand of frozen potato products) was held annually in the western United States in southern Idaho, beginning in 1984 unti ...
bicycle
stage race
A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event. Usually, such a race consists of "ordinary" stages, but sometimes stages ...
. Ruthie is one of a series of professional riders who got their start in cycling through the
Red Zinger Mini Classics youth bicycle race series in Colorado.
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1965 births
American female cyclists
Cross-country mountain bikers
Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for the United States
Living people
People from Sun Valley, Idaho
UCI Mountain Bike World Champions (women)
American mountain bikers
21st-century American women
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