Alison Sydor

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Alison Sydor

Alison Jane Sydor , OBC (born September 9, 1966 in Edmonton ) is a former Canadian cyclist and four-time world champion.

Cycling career

Alison Sydor was active and successful as a cyclist in various disciplines - road racing, mountain bike and cyclo-cross racing - for around 20 years . In 1990, 1991 and 1993 she was Canadian road racing champion, and in 1991 she also took third place at the Road World Championships .

In 1994 Sydor became Canadian champion in road racing as well as mountain bike. In the same year she became mountain bike world champion. She was able to repeat this success twice - in 1995 and 1996. In 2002 she also became the team's mountain bike world champion. In 1998 and 1999 she won the Mountain Bike World Cup.

Alison Sydor competed four times between 1992 and 2004 at the Olympic Games. At the 1992 Games in Barcelona she finished twelfth in the road race, at the 1996 Games in Atlanta she won the silver medal in the mountain bike race , in her other participations fourth and fifth. She also won several medals at the Commonwealth and Pan American Games .

Awards

In 1995 and 1996 Alison Sydor was awarded the Velma Springstead Trophy for the most outstanding Canadian female athlete of the year. In 2007 she was inducted into the “Mountain Bike Hall of Fame” and into the “ BC Sports Hall of Fame”. In the 1999 Canadian Cyclist poll for “Canadian Cyclist of the Century” , she finished first, ahead of Steve Bauer and William Peden .

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