Mary Jane Reoch

Mary Jane "Miji" Reoch (born January 2, 1945 in Philadelphia , † September 11, 1993 in Dallas ) was an American cyclist .

Mary Jane Reoch, known as Miji , was one of the top female cyclists in the United States in the 1970s, mostly successful in track cycling but also in road racing . In 1971 she was American road race champion and in 1975 the individual time trial . She won the national title in the single pursuit four times and in the points race twice . The UCI Track Cycling World Championships 1975 in Belgium Rocourt she became vice-world champion in pursuit and the following year, at the Track World Championships in Italy Monteroni di Lecce , third in this discipline.

1975 Reoch won the inaugural race of the Velodrome in Trexlertown ; In 1976 she won the first ever women's cycle race at the Tour of Somerville and in 1979 the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic .

In 1980 Mary Jane Reoch retired from active cycling, worked successfully as a trainer - one of her protégés was Connie Carpenter - and worked on a book. She gave birth to a baby in 1981 after having labored twelve miles on her road bike to give birth in the hospital. In September 1993, she was killed on a training trip with an athlete she was coaching when she was hit by a truck.

In 1994 Mary Jane Reoch was posthumously inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame and in 2004 also into the Hall of Fame of the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weekly World News v. October 20, 1981 (Engl.)
2. ↑ thevelodrome.com ( Memento from February 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Mary Jane Reoch in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Mary Jane Reoch at usbhof.org