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1982 Milan – San Remo

The 1982 Milan-San Remo was won by relatively unknown French cyclist Marc Gomez who won after joining the early breakaway.

2011 Tour of Belgium

The stage started with one minute of silence in remembrance of Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt, a former stage winner during the Tour of Belgium who died two weeks earlier as a result of a crash during the 2011 Giro d'Italia.

Abelardo Gandía Valdés

Abelardo Gandía Valdés (born September 5, 1977 in Requena) is a cyclist from Spain.

Alexander Petrovskiy

: 8th Olympic Games (Team pursuit with Alexei Markov, Alexander Serov, and Nikolay Trusov), Beijing (CHN)

André Perchicot

André Perchicot (August 9, 1888 - May 3, 1950) was a French cyclist who won the bronze medal at the 1912 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's Sprint in Newark, New Jersey and the 1912 French National Track Championships.

Archer Road Club

Other prominent track riders include Malcolm Hill (1974 sprint champion), Robin Croker, Maurice Burton, Dave Le Grys, Dave Brotherton, Shaun Fenwick and Keith Pettican.

Around the world cycling record

On 14 February 2008, Mark Beaumont completed a circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle in 194 days and 17 hours.

Balducci

Gabriele Balducci, Italian professional racing cyclist, for the Acqua & Sapone-Caffè Mokambo team

Beñat

Beñat Intxausti (b. 1986) Basque professional road racing cyclist from Spain

Burnley Tunnel

One was Australian Olympic cyclist Damian McDonald, who won a gold medal in the road team time trial at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, and also represented Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Cartaxo Municipality

Marco Chagas (Pontével, 19 November 1956 - ), professional cyclist, four time winner of the Volta a Portugal in 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1986;

Casco Schützhelme

Amongst famous people who used the company's protective gear are Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Lars Bystøl, Jos Lansink and Jens Fiedler.

Chris Eatough

He currently rides for the Trek Racing Cooperative Team, formerly the Trek VW team with Jeremiah Bishop, Travis Brown, Sue Haywood, Lea Davison and Ross Schnell.

Danny Matthys

In his youth, Matthys was a gifted cyclist in the category of ’promises’, together with André Dierickx, which later won famous classics such as the La Flèche Wallonne, but a very serious accident during the last years of his humanities studies in Ghent and a long rehabilitation, gave his life a strong new direction.

Doping at the 2007 Tour de France

Italian cycling journalist and former cyclist Davide Cassani told a Danish television channel that he had seen Rasmussen on June 13 and 14 in the Dolomites in Italy.

Dowsett

Alex Dowsett (born 1988), English professional cyclist, currently riding for Movistar Team

Edward Ziegler

Edi Ziegler (born 1930), German road racing cyclist, from Bavaria, who won bronze medal in men's individual road race at 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki; professional rider during 1957–59

Emma Johansson

Johansson is the second Swedish cyclist to have worn the UCI World Cup leader jersey, preceded only by Susanne Ljungskog.

Ertjies Bezuidenhout

A student at the Potchefstroom University from 1976 to 1978, he exercised relentlessly to become a Springbok cyclist.

France at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Three were won by Paul Masson who won every event he entered, with Léon Flameng adding the fourth as well as a silver and a bronze.

Gabriela Díaz

María Gabriela Díaz (born January 2, 1981 in Alta Gracia, Córdoba) is an Argentine professional BMX cyclist.

George Broadbent

George Robert Broadbent (1863–1947), Australian cyclist and map publisher

Haueisen

Dennis Haueisen (born 1978), German professional cyclist, son of Lutz

Iona Wynter

She rode on a professional U.S. cycling team sponsored by Italian olive oil company Colavita and headed by celebrated American cyclist Tina Pic.

Jacques Michaud

In that stage, he climbed the Col des Aravis, the Col de la Colombière and the Col de Joux Plane first, and finished with an advantage of 66 seconds on the next cyclist.

Jaime Gandara

Jaime Gandara (born El Paso, Texas, USA, 29 June 1982) is an American professional road and cyclocross cyclist.

Jaja

Laurent Jalabert, retired French professional cyclist nicknamed Jaja

Javier Ochoa Palacios

Javier Ochoa Palacios (born August 30, 1974 in Vizcaya) is a cyclist from Spain.

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).

Jokin Ormaetxea

Ormaetxea was a passenger in an Audi A3 driven by fellow cyclist Joseba Albizu of team Euskaltel-Euskadi when the car overturned after leaving the road near the town of Deba at approximately 6:40 am.

Levan Tediashvili

In 1987, he and Georgian Olympic cyclist Omar Pkhakadze played two heroes in the historical Georgian film Khareba da Gogia.

Man versus Horse Marathon

In 1985, cyclists were allowed to compete too - and that year, U.S. ladies' champion cyclist Jacquie Phelan narrowly lost to the first horse.

Ng Joo Pong

Joe Ng Joo Pong (born June 19, 1946 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a Malaysian cyclist who represented Malaysia at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1966 Asian Games.

Nicolas Roche

Roche, who was born in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France, is the son of former cycling champion Stephen Roche and his former wife, Lydia, nephew of former cycling professional Lawrence Roche and cousin of 2008 Irish road champion Daniel Martin.

Olga Zabelinskaya

Zabelinskaya is the daughter of the Olympic champion former cyclist Sergei Sukhoruchenkov.

Oppy

the nickname of Hubert Opperman, Australian cyclist and politician, whose endurance cycling feats in the 1920s and 1930s earned him international acclaim

Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry

It remained in the Holt area until May 1918 when it went to Ireland with the 2nd Cyclist Brigade and was stationed at the Curragh and Mullingar until the end of the war.

S-1 Gard

Because of Bernoulli's principle, a decrease in air pressure between a larger object (such as a transit bus or large truck) and a smaller object (such as a pedestrian or cyclist) is created when passing in close proximity, resulting in a force that pulls the smaller object towards the larger object.

Scaphoid fracture

Several professional athletes have suffered from this injury such as multiple World Champion cyclist Tony Martin, baseball player Ryan Lavarnway, ice hockey player Patrick Kane, basketball player Kendall Marshall, basketball player Jared Jeffries and Louisville Cardinals Center Gorgui Dieng

Sean Santana

He was educated at Potchefstroom Boys High and graduated in 1994, he was in the same high school class as Zimbabwean cyclist Warren Carne and the South African 800m Atlanta Olympic Silver medalist Hezekiél Sepeng.

Seven Hills, Ohio

Noteworthy residents of Seven Hills have included professional cyclist Joseph M. Papp, accused World War II war criminal John Demjanjuk, former professional football player Jack Squirek, as well as fashion designer and season five Project Runway competitor Stephen "Suede" Baum and New York City chef Andrew Carmellini.

SplinterBike

On September 16, 2010, during the Tour of Britain, Michael Thompson (a veteran wood joiner) suggested to his friend James Tully (an amateur cyclist) that he could make a 100% wooden bicycle.

Stanislav Bartůšek

In 2000, his documentary named Za císaře... (For the Emperor...) presenting the life story of Czech cyclist Jan Veselý won the Juan Antonio Samaranch Award at the Santander Sports Movies Festival.

Sue Haywood

She raced for team Trek Volkswagen along with notables Jeremiah Bishop, Travis Brown, Chris Eatough, Lea Davison and Ross Schnell.

Tanja Schmidt-Hennes

Tanja Schmidt-Hennes (born June 30, 1971 in Attendorn) is a former German professional cyclist.

Texas constitutional amendment election, 2007

Cyclist Lance Armstrong, a native Texan and cancer survivor, campaigned in favor of Proposition 15 in the highest-funded campaign of the election.

Toronto Donut Ride

Over the years the ride has hosted many notable Canadian cyclists, including legendary Toronto guru Mike Barry and his son Michael Barry (of US Postal, T-Mobile, and Columbia, Sky), Jocelyn Lovell, the Hansen Brothers, and others.

Zubeldia

Haimar Zubeldia (born 1977), Spanish professional road racing cyclist


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