Gema Pascual

Gema Pascual
To person
Full name	Gema Pascual Torrecilla
Date of birth	January 12, 1979
nation	Spain
discipline	Track cycling, road cycling
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Team (s)
2001 ; 2004–2007 ; 2008–2011	Alkon-Groupbike ; Bizkaia-Panda Software-Durango ; Bizkaia-Durango
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2006 - points race
	Last updated: November 14, 2015

Gema Pascual Torrecilla (born January 12, 1979 in Madrid ) is a former Spanish cyclist .

1996 Gema Pascual became the Spanish junior champion in the individual time trial . Until 2009 she was on the podium several times at national road championships . In 2005 she was third in the European Rail Championship in the Omnium . At the UCI-Bahn World Championships in 2006 , she won the bronze medal in the points race . In 2007 she was runner-up in the European Omnium and won a stage of the Emakumeen Bira Basque Tour .

In 2004 Pascual started at the Olympic Games in Athens and finished seventh in the points race.

In 2007 Gema Pascual posed naked for a photo with her friend, professional cyclist Jesús Javier Ramírez, to protest against the poor training conditions and the bad image of cyclists in Spain: "Cyclists are the scum."

Web links

Gema Pascual in the database of Radsportseiten.net
Gema Pascual in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Desnuda sobre una bici para protestar: "Los ciclistas somos la escoria y estamos en pelotas". 20minutos.es, May 28, 2007, accessed April 25, 2014 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Pascual, Gema
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pascual Torrecilla, Gema (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madrid

[1] Desnuda sobre una bici para protestar: "Los ciclistas somos la escoria y estamos en pelotas". 20minutos.es, May 28, 2007, accessed April 25, 2014 (Spanish).