Ruth Corset

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Ruth Corset Road cycling
Ruth Corset (2008)
Ruth Corset (2008)
To person
Date of birth May 9, 1977
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Street
End of career 2017
Most important successes
Oceania Championships
2009 silver - road racing
2013 bronze - individual time trial
Last updated: January 8, 2019

Ruth Corset (born May 9, 1977 in Townsville ) is a former Australian cyclist .

Athletic career

Before Ruth Corset was active in cycling, she was a triathlete . In 2009 she won the silver medal in the road race of the Oceania Championships and won a stage of the Route de France Féminine ; in the overall ranking of the Grand Prix de Plouay-Bretagne she was fifth. At the road world championships in Mendrisio, she finished twelve. The following year she was Australian road champion and decided a stage of the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche for herself, in which she was also third in the overall standings. In the same year she was fourth in the Tour of New Zealand , the Trofeo Alfredo Binda and second in the Tour Féminin en Limousin . In 2011 she was third on the Tour of New Zealand and sixth in the overall ranking of the Giro d'Italia Femminile , but also suffered several falls during races in Europe. In 2013, she finished third in the individual time trial of the Oceania Championships .

Despite this successful balance sheet signed Corset, the 2012 and 2013 Bizkaia-Durango was gone, no other contract with a cycling team, also because they are not for the Olympic Games in London was nominated. In an interview in 2017, she explained that she was the mother of two daughters during her active days as a racing cyclist and that she had suffered from long separations from her family. But she continued to compete in races in Australia - she became national runner-up in 2016 - and finally ended her active career in 2017. Her daughter Stephanie is now a successful cyclist herself.

successes

2009
2010
2013
  • bronze Oceania Championship - Individual Time Trial

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.cyclingnews.com presents the Australian Open Road Championships. In: autobus.cyclingnews.com. January 11, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2009 .
  2. ^ A b Jamie Finch-Penninger: Ruth Corset: a career of two halves. In: sbs.com.au. August 4, 2017, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Porter hurt, Morton stars in track cycling. In: sbs.com.au. December 17, 2018, accessed January 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Corset, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Townsville