Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli

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Jeannie Longo Road cycling
as French champion 2011
as French champion 2011
To person
Date of birth 31st October 1958 (age 61)
nation France
discipline Road cycling, track cycling

Jeannie Longo (born October 31, 1958 in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains , Haute-Savoie ) is a French cyclist . She has won numerous titles both on the road and on the track and is the most successful cyclist of all time. With thirteen world titles, she is more successful than any male professional cyclist. Today she has competitors who were not born when she became world champion for the first time in 1985.

Athletic career

Longo began her athletic career in Nordic and Alpine skiing . After she had won the French school championships (1975) and three student championships in alpine skiing in cross-country skiing , she switched to cycling on the advice of her trainer .

She improved the hour record several times . Her record according to the old UCI regulations of October 26, 1996 (48.159 km achieved in Mexico City) is so far unbeaten. Her hourly world record according to the new UCI regulations of December 7, 2000 was 45.094 km (achieved in Mexico City), but was beaten by Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel on October 1, 2003 (46.065 km in Mexico City). The world hour record she set in Colorado Springs in 1987 was canceled by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) because she had tested positive for taking ephedrine .

Jeannie Longo (2000)
Jeannie Longo in Mendrisio (2009)

Between 1989 and 1991 she interrupted her sporting career. In Beijing, she started at the 2008 Summer Olympics for the seventh time in the Olympic Games and missed the bronze medal in the individual time trial by just one second. She is one of the athletes with the most Olympics ever.

Doping allegations by an ex-professional and preliminary investigation 2011

In September 2011, proceedings were initiated against Jeannie Longo for breaching her whereabouts three times in 18 months; she was threatened with a ban of three to 24 months. As a result, she decided not to start at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships .

In addition, Longo was confronted with public allegations from ex-professional Joe Papp , who was himself investigated for doping. As a result, a Grenoble court ordered an investigation into Longo's husband and coach Patrice Ciprelli . Joe Papp had claimed in a newspaper interview that Patrice Ciprelli bought EPO from him in 2007 , which was intended for his wife Jeannie Longo. In March 2017, Ciprelli was sentenced by a court to one year probation for importing EPO.

The case against Longo-Ciprelli was dropped by the French Cycling Federation in November 2011 because she had not been informed since April 2010 that she was still one of the riders who had to submit to training controls. Therefore, she is not responsible for missing the controls three times.

Personal and professional

Jeannie Longo studied computer science and mathematics at the Institut d'études commerciales de Grenoble , has a degree in sports economics and has been a sports professor since 1987. In the same year she married her trainer Patrice Ciprelli.

Awards

  • In 1987 Longo was voted France's Sportswoman of the Year (“ Champion des champions ”) by the sports newspaper L'Équipe .
  • On January 1, 2011 she received the highest civilian honor in France and was accepted into the rank of commander of the Legion of Honor (French: L'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur) .
  • Longo has been inducted into the UCI Cycling Hall of Fame. She is the only person who has achieved this in her ongoing career.

Palmarès

So far, Jeannie Longo has achieved 1278 victories, 115 round trip victories, 38 world records, is 59 times French champion and is still active. She won 112 medals at the Olympic Games, World Championships and French Championships. Jeannie Longo achieved more than twice as many victories as the most successful male cyclist, Eddy Merckx .

Skiing

  • 1973: European youth champion cross-country skiing (relay)
  • 1975: French youth champion in cross-country skiing
  • 1979: three-time French student champion in downhill and slalom
  • 1982: World champion "Cross-country skiing for city dwellers"

Cycling

  • 1985: Road World Champion, Super Prestige Pernod
  • 1986: Road World Champion, Pursuit World Champion, Super Prestige Pernod
  • 1987: Victory Tour Cycliste Féminin , Road World Champion, Super Prestige Pernod
  • 1988: Victory Tour Cycliste Féminin, world champion pursuit
  • 1989: Victory Tour Cycliste Féminin, world champion road, world champion pursuit, world champion points race
  • 1992: Silver Medal Summer Olympics Road
  • 1995: Road world champion, time trial world champion
  • 1996: Olympic champion road, Olympic second time trial, world time trial champion
  • 1997: World time trial champion
  • 2000: Bronze medal at the Summer Olympics Road
  • 2001: World time trial champion
  • 2006: French national road championship victory
  • 2006: French national championship individual time trial victory
  • 2008: French national road championship victory
  • 2008: French state championship individual time trial victory
  • 2008: Fourth place Olympic Summer Games individual time trial
  • 2009: French national championship individual time trial victory
  • 2010: French state championship individual time trial victory
  • 2011: French state championship individual time trial victory

Web links

Commons : Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Meutgens (ed.): Doping in cycling. Delius Klasing, Kiel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7688-5245-6 , p. 262.
  2. ↑ Monument threatens doping ban - de.eurosport.yahoo.de (accessed on September 11, 2011)
  3. ↑ Longo renounces radsport-news.com v. September 14, 2011
  4. ↑ French judiciary investigates Longo's husband on radsport-news.com v. September 16, 2011
  5. ^ French association suspended Longo's husband on nachrichten.ch
  6. ↑ Longo's husband convicted of importing EPO. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed March 10, 2017 .
  7. ↑ cyclingnews.com of November 22, 2011: Jeannie Longo's doping charges dismissed
  8. ↑ Jeannie Longo receives a high distinction from the state of France on radsportseiten.net
personal data
SURNAME Longo-Ciprelli, Jeannie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Longo, Jeannie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Gervais-les-Bains