Cherise Taylor
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Date of birth | November 6, 1989 |
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discipline | Road / mountain bike |
End of career | 2015 |
Last updated: February 17, 2019 |
Cherise Taylor , married Stander Taylor, m. Willeit , (born November 6, 1989 in Pretoria ) is a former South African racing cyclist .
Athletic career
In 2007 Cherise Taylor was junior runner-up in road racing . In 2008 she became the South African road racing champion and finished 55th in the same discipline at the Olympic Games in Beijing . In 2009 she finished second in the road race of the African Championships . By 2012 she won three other national titles in road racing and individual time trials ; In 2011 she became African champion in the individual time trial and African runner-up in road racing. In 2012 she won the national time trial title . When she was still not nominated for the team time trial at the Olympic Games in London , she appealed against this decision, but without success.
In 2010 and 2014 , Cherise Stander Taylor started at the Commonwealth Games . In 2010 she finished tenth in the road race, but in 2014 she couldn't finish the race.
family
In 2012 Cherise Taylor married the mountain biker Burry Stander , world champion and African champion in his discipline. Eight months after the wedding, Stander was hit by a minibus while training on the road in Shelly Beach ( KwaZulu-Natal ) and died of his fatal injuries. At the Cape Epic race, the Burry Stander Memorial Trophy has been awarded to the best starter from Africa since 2013 . Cherise has been married to the South Tyrolean and team manager Benno Willeit since 2017 and is now the mother of a son who bears the middle name Burry in memory of her first husband .
successes
- 2007
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Junior World Championship - road racing
- 2008
- 2009
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African Championship - Road Race
- 2010
- 2011
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African champion - individual time trial
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African Championship - Road Race
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South African Champion - Individual Time Trial
- 2012
- a stage of the Route de France Féminine
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South African Champion - Individual Time Trial
- 2015
Teams
- 2009 MTN Ladies Team
- 2011 Lotto Honda Team
- 2012 Lotto Belisol Ladies
Web links
- Cherise Taylor in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Cherise Taylor in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Cherise Taylor in the ProCyclingStats.com database
Individual evidence
- ^ Cherise Taylor Olympic Appeal Result - Cycling Direct. In: cyclingdirect.co.za. June 28, 2012, accessed February 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Cherise Taylor. (No longer available online.) In: Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on February 22, 2018 ; accessed on February 21, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ SA cyclist's wife: we are all broken. In: IOL News. January 6, 2013, accessed February 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Cycling News: Burry Stander Memorial Trophy to be awarded at Cape Epic -. In: cyclingnews.com. March 22, 2013, accessed February 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Home: Cherise Willeit: Cycling a source of heartbreak and happiness. In: inthebunch.co.za. September 22, 2017, accessed February 21, 2018 .
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SURNAME | Taylor, Cherise |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stander Taylor, Cherise (married name since 2012); Willeit, Cherise (married name since 2017) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African racing cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pretoria |