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Alexis Méndez

Alexis Omar Méndez (born October 23, 1969 in Táriba, Cárdenas) is a retired male professional track and road racing cyclist from Venezuela.

Carlos Maya

Carlos Alberto Maya Lizcano (born March 16, 1972 in Elvira) is a male professional track and road racing cyclist from Venezuela.

Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 kilometres

The men's 10 kilometres was one of the five track cycling races on the Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme.

Cycling at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

The cycling competition at the 2002 Commonwealth Games involves three disciplines: mountain bike racing, road bicycle racing and track cycling.

Cycling Australia

Under the direction of Charlie Walsh at the Australian Institute of Sport and national cycling coach from 1980 to 2001, Australia's international cycling performance ranking moved from between 20 and 30 in track cycling in the world, to the number one ranked nation in 1993 and 1994, and placed third at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Mickaël Bourgain

Mickaël Bourgain (born 28 May 1980 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) is a French track cyclist, who won a bronze medal in the men's team sprint race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with Laurent Gané and Arnaud Tournant.

Nelson Saldana

Nelson Saldana is a former American track cycling Champion originally from Kew Gardens, Queens, New York.

Scott McGrory

McGrory was most successful in track cycling, winning the gold medal 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.


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2011 British National Track Championships

The competition was staged at the National Track Cycling Centre at the Manchester Velodrome, the venue for the track cycling at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Angelo Ciccone

: 3rd Italian Track Cycling Championships (Scratch), Dalmine (ITA)

: 2nd Italian Track Cycling Championships (Derny), Dalmine (ITA)

Cycling at the Friendship Games

The individual road race was held at the Schleizer Dreieck race track in Schleiz, East Germany on 23 August 1984, the team road race was held in Forst, East Germany on 26 August 1984, while track cycling events were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre in Moscow, Soviet Union between 18 and 22 August 1984.

Fabien Sanchez

Before his professional cycling career, Sanchez sought headlines in the international scene, when he led the French team for the gold in a team pursuit final match against the Germans at the 2001 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania, United States.

Fabio Masotti

: 2nd Italian Track Cycling Championships (Scratch), Dalmine (ITA)

Jérôme Neuville

He had a break in his track cycling career between 1999 and 2002, during which time he competed on the road as a professional cyclist with the Crédit Agricole team (1999 to 2001), and Cofidis (2002).

Lake Park High School

Mark Gorski, 1978, Olympic Gold Medalist (Track cycling Individual sprint, 1984 Summer Olympics)

Ross Edgar

In December 2012 it was announced that Edgar had signed for the IG-Sigma Sport cycling team for the 2013 season, adding road racing commitments to his existing membership of the Great Britain track cycling programme.

Rossner

Petra Rossner (born 1966), German cyclist, who won the gold medal in 3 km pursuit track cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona

Scratch track

Scratch track race or Scratch race, a track cycling discipline in which all riders start together

Sheila Young

If women's cycling was part of the summer Olympics of 1976 then Young would have a chance to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year, something that Christa Rothenburger (also world sprint champion in both speed skating and track cycling) achieved in 1988.

Simon Brotherton

In 2013 he became the lead BBC commentator for the World Track Cycling Championships, following Hugh Porter's retirement.