Marion Clignet

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Marion Clignet (born February 21, 1964 in Hyde Park , New York) is a former French cyclist who was successful on track and road, won six world championship titles and two Olympic silver medals.

At the age of 22, Marion Clignet was diagnosed with epilepsy and the doctors forbade her to drive. So she turned to cycling. In 1990, at the age of 26, she was runner-up in the US road championships, but ignored by the US Cycling Federation because of her illness. Then Marion Clignet decided to start for France, her parents' home country.

In 1991, Clignet and the French team won the world championship title in team driving on the road. In 1993 she finished second at the Grande Boucle Féminine and in 1994 she won the Chrono des Nations . In the same year she became world champion in the single pursuit on the track; She was able to repeat this success in 1996 and 1999 . In 1999 and 2000 she was also world champion in points race . In addition, she was able to win several national French titles on track and road.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , Marion Clignet took second place in the single pursuit on the track.

In 1993, Marion Clignet tested positive for caffeine at the World Track Championships and was suspended for seven months for doping.

Today Marion Clignet works as a trainer; so in 2005 she was in charge of the New Zealand U-23 cycling team. She wrote her autobiography Tenacious and is committed to educating people about epilepsy. She is currently the spokesperson for the French “Fondation Française pour la Recherche sur l'Epilepsie”; from 1988 to 1990 she held this position at the US “Epilepsy Foundation of America”.

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  1. ↑ Ralf Meutgens (ed.): Doping in cycling. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-7688-5245-6 , p. 265.
personal data
SURNAME Clignet, Marion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hyde Park , New York