Marlies Mejías

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Marlies Mejías Road cycling
Marlies Mejías (2011)
Marlies Mejías (2011)
To person
Full name Marlies Mejías García
Date of birth December 29, 1992
nation CubaCuba Cuba
discipline Train / street
Driver type endurance
To the team
Current team Sho-Air TWENTY20
function driver
Team (s)
2018 Sho-Air TWENTY20
Most important successes
Pan American Track Championships
2013 gold - Omnium, Individual Pursuit, Team Pursuit
2012 gold - Omnium
Pan American Road Championships
2015 gold - road race
Central America and Caribbean Games
2018 gold - Scratch
2014 gold - Road Race, Omnium, Individual Pursuit, Team Sprint, Team Pursuit
Last updated: July 27, 2020

Marlies Mejías García (born December 29, 1992 in Güira de Melena ) is a Cuban cyclist who is active on track and road . She is one of the most successful female cyclists on the American continent in the 2010s.

Athletic career

Marlies Mejías achieved her first international success on the railway; In 2012 she became the Pan American champion in the Omnium , and the following year she even won four continental titles, in the Omnium, in the team sprint (with Lisandra Guerra ), in the single and team pursuit (with Yudelmis Dominguez and Arlenis Sierra ). In the years that followed, she also increasingly raced on the road. In 2014 she won the gold medal in road racing at the Central American and Caribbean Games and the following year she became the Pan-American champion in this discipline.

In 2016 Mejías was nominated for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Together with Lisandra Guerra and Arlenis Sierra , she prepared for her participation at the Center Mondial Cyclisme of the World Cycling Association UCI in Aigle, Switzerland . In Rio, she finished seventh in the Omnium. At the Central America and Caribbean Games in 2018 , she won the competition in the scratch .

Then Marlies Mejías took a break from racing because she had become pregnant. In August 2019 she became the mother of a daughter. She announced that she would continue her cycling career.

successes

train

2011
2012
  • gold Panamerican Champion - Omnium
  • silver Pan American Championship - Individual Pursuit
2013
2014
2015
2016
  • silver Pan American Championship - Individual Pursuit
2017
2018

Street

2013
  • silver Pan American Championship - Road Race
2014
2015
  • gold Panamerican Champion - Road Race
  • silver Pan American Games - Street Racing
  • Cuban National Champion Jersey.png Cuban Champion - Individual Time Trial
2017
  • bronze Pan American Championship - Individual Time Trial
2018
  • bronze Pan American Championship - Road Race
  • Cuban National Champion Jersey.png Cuban Champion - Individual Time Trial

Web links

Commons : Marlies Mejías  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marlies Mejías García. Ciclista cubana. , Radio Artemisa, May 27, 2015, accessed June 25, 2016 (Spanish)
  2. ^ Radio Habana Cuba - Cubana Arlenis Sierra al Centro de la UCI en Suiza con la mirada en Rio-2016. In: radiohc.cu. Retrieved June 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Cuba llega a 404 Deportistas que Irán a los Panamericanos de Lima. In: cubainformacion.tv. June 12, 2019, Retrieved July 25, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Marlies Mejías, en el podio con su hija. In: juventudrebelde.cu. May 10, 2020, accessed July 27, 2020 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Mejías, Marlies
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mejías García, Marlies
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Güira de Melena , Cuba