Gema Pascual
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Full name | Gema Pascual Torrecilla |
Date of birth | January 12, 1979 |
nation |
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discipline | Track cycling, road cycling |
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Current team | End of career |
function | driver |
Team (s) | |
2001 2004–2007 2008–2011 |
Alkon-Groupbike Bizkaia-Panda Software-Durango Bizkaia-Durango |
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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).
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SURNAME | Pascual, Gema |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pascual Torrecilla, Gema (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |