Ashleigh Moolman

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Ashleigh Moolman Road cycling
Ashleigh Moolman (2019)
Ashleigh Moolman (2019)
To person
Date of birth December 9, 1985
nation South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa
discipline Street
To the team
Current team CCC-Liv
function driver
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2017 bronze - team time trial
Commonwealth Games
2014 bronze - road racing
Africa Games
2019 gold - individual time trial
Last updated: July 4th, 2020

Ashleigh Moolman , married. Moolman-Pasio (born December 9, 1985 in Pretoria ) is a South African cyclist . She is one of the most successful cyclists in Africa in the 2010s.

Athletic career

In 2011 Ashleigh Moolman was South African runner-up in the individual time trial . In the same year she won the African Championships in road racing and was second in the individual time trial. In 2012 she won the national title in the road race, finished second in the individual time trial and was a second time African champion in the road race and for the first time in the individual time trial.

In 2013 Moolman became the South African time trial and road racing champion; internationally she placed third in the La Flèche Wallonne World Cup race and eighth in the Giro Donne stage race . At the end of the season she was again two-time African champion , first in the time trial and then in the road race, which she won in a sprint of a three-man breakaway group.

In 2015 Ashleigh Moolman won the three African titles on the road , in the race, in the time trial and in the team time trial . The following year she started at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro : She finished twelfth in the time trial and tenth in the road race. 2017 was her successful year up to then, in which she won the overall rankings of Emakumeen Bira and the Giro della Toscana Femminile , at the road world championships she won the bronze medal in the team time trial together with her team Cervélo Bigla . In 2019 she won gold in the individual time trial at the Africa Games .

engagement

On June 15, 2016, Ashleigh Moolman published an open letter on the Cyclingnews website , in which she advocated changes in women's cycling. Although this sport is enjoying increasing popularity, the attitudes of officials, but also of the cyclists themselves, have hardly changed. Among other things, she urged women in particular to take on more responsibility, to show solidarity, not to fall into the role of victim and not to instrumentalize their sexuality in order to achieve their goals.

successes

Ashleigh Moolman (2012)

2011:

2012:

2013:

  • gold African champion - road race, individual time trial
  • MaillotSudáfrica.PNG South African Champion - Road Race, Individual Time Trial

2014:

  • bronze Commonwealth Games - road racing
  • MaillotSudáfrica.PNG South African Champion - Road Race, Individual Time Trial

2015:

2016:

2017:

2018:

2019:

2020:

  • MaillotSudáfrica.PNG South African Champion - Road Race, Individual Time Trial

Teams

Web links

Commons : Ashleigh Moolman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moolman also gets the street title. In: radsport-news.com. December 2, 2013, accessed May 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio: Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio: Fighting for gender equality and mutual respect. In: Cyclingnes. June 15, 2016, accessed June 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Moolman, Ashleigh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moolman-Pasio, Ashleigh (after marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria