Lyne Bessette

Lyne Bessette (2002)

Lyne Bessette (born March 10, 1975 in Lac Brome , Québec ) is a Canadian politician ( Liberal Party ) and former cyclist .

Lyne Bessette has been one of Canada's most successful cyclists since the late 1990s. She had her first major international success in 1998 at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur when she won the gold medal in road racing . In 1999 and 2001 she won the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin . In 2001 she became two-time Canadian champions in the individual time trial and road racing. In many other international and national competitions she was on the podium, in 2004 she was again Canadian road champion. Between 1999 and 2002 she won the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic four times in a row , the Cascade Cycling Classic in 2003 , the Liberty Classic and in 2003 and 2004 the Tour of Toona . She competed at the Olympic Games twice - in 2000 and 2004 .

From 2003 Bessette shifted her focus more and more to cyclo-cross racing . In that year she was Canadian champion in the individual time trial and cyclocross; in cyclocross, she repeated this victory in 2006 and 2007. In 2010 she became world champion in road racing as a pilot together with the visually impaired Robbi Weldon and runner-up in the time trial. In 2011, the two athletes jointly won the world time trial title . The duo Welden / Bessette won a gold medal at the Summer Paralympics 2012 in London .

In the election in 2019 Bessette joined in the south-east of Quebec City located constituency Brome-Missisquoi for the Liberal Party of. She received 38.2 percent of the vote and was thus elected to the Canadian House of Commons .

Lyne Bessette is married to the American cyclist Tim Johnson .

Web links

• Lyne Bessette - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
• Lyne Bessette in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Lyne Bessette in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bessette and Weldon Win Para-cycling Road Race World Championship. Cyclocross Magazine , August 24, 2010, accessed February 7, 2014 . 
2. ^ Gary Kingston: Weldon claims gold for Canada in women's road race. canada.com, September 8, 2012, accessed February 7, 2014 . 
3. ↑ October 21, 2019 Federal Election Election Results. October 21, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .