Victoria Pendleton

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Victoria Pendleton Road cycling
Victoria Pendleton (2011)
Victoria Pendleton (2011)
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Date of birth September 24, 1980
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline train
Most important successes
Olympic games
2008 gold - sprint
2012 gold - Keirin
2012 gold - Sprint
UCI track world championships
2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 World Champion - Sprint
2007 World Champion - Keirin
2007, 2008 World Champion - team sprint
Last updated: August 14, 2020
Victoria Pendleton at the 2008 UCI Track World Championships in Manchester

Victoria Louise "Vicky" Pendleton CBE (born September 24, 1980 in Stotfold , England) is a former British cyclist . She is a two-time Olympic champion and has been world champion nine times in short-term track cycling disciplines . She was one of the most successful track cyclists in the first decade of the 21st century until she retired from competitive sport in 2012.

Athletic career

Victoria Pendleton started cycling at an early age as she came from a cycling enthusiast family. At the age of nine, she and her twin brother Alex started cycling. Pendleton was appointed to the UK national team at the age of 16, but she preferred to study. Excited about the Olympic gold medal for Jason Queally at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , she decided to go cycling during her studies, which she finished in 2002. For over two seasons she trained in the “World Cycling Center” of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in Aigle under Frédéric Magné , seven-time track world champion from France .

Pendleton won her first title at the 2005 World Track Championships in Los Angeles ; it was the first British title in 40 years. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne , she won a gold and a silver medal. At the UCI Track World Championships in 2007 , she managed the hat trick with three gold medals in keirin , sprint and team sprint . For this she was voted Sportswoman of the Year in Great Britain as the very first female cyclist. She was able to confirm this success in 2008 at the Olympic Games in Beijing with a gold medal in the individual sprint, the only discipline that was offered to women in Beijing. For this she was awarded the MBE honor by Queen Elizabeth II . At the 2008 World Track Championships in Manchester , Victoria Pendleton won two titles, in the keirin and team sprint, and was world champion in sprinting in both 2009 and 2010 . In the 2010/2011 season she won the overall ranking in the sprint of the Track Cycling World Cup .

In spring 2012 she won her sixth and seventh world championship title at the track world championships , in the sprint and team sprint (with Jessica Varnish ). In addition, she became vice world champion in the Keirin.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Victoria Pendleton was Olympic champion in the Keirin, in the sprint she finished second behind the Australian Anna Meares . In the team sprint, she and Jessica Varnish were relegated in the semifinals due to a faulty substitute after they had initially completed this race victoriously. As previously announced, she ended her career with the completion of the Olympic competitions in track cycling.

Honors

Vicky Pendleton was honored with the induction into the Hall of Fame of the European cycling association Union Européenne de Cyclisme .

Others

In June 2015, Victoria Pendleton announced that she intended to apply for a license to make her debut as a jockey in March 2016 at the Foxhunters Chase race at the Cheltenham Festival in Cheltenham . In 2017 she was also active in medieval tournaments. She also took part in the television dance competition Strictly Come Dancing .

Until 2018 Pendleton had a ten-year relationship with a former trainer of the British national track team, who therefore initially lost his job with British Cycling in 2008. In July 2018, she reported in an interview that after a failed attempt to climb Mount Everest and after breaking up with her husband, she suffered from severe depression.

Pendleton became the Laureus Waves Project Ambassador, helping children with mental health problems learn to surf.

successes

2002
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Champion - Sprint, 500m Time Trial
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012

Web links

Commons : Victoria Pendleton  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Victoria Pendleton Biography . ( Memento from February 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Eurosport.de
  2. ↑ Victoria Pendleton Biography . ( Memento from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Sky Sports .
  3. ↑ Victoria Pendleton & Jess Varnish relegated from team sprint . In: BBC , August 2, 2012.
  4. ↑ Victoria Pendleton loses to Anna Meares in last ever race . In: BBC , August 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ Cycling champion Victoria Pendleton to make debut as amateur jockey in: The Guardian , June 4, 2015, accessed June 4, 2015
  6. ↑ Olympian Victoria Pendleton on her latest sporting challenge: medieval jousting. In: telegraph.co.uk. July 21, 2017, accessed August 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b c Double Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton opens up about her 'crushing' depression amid break-up from husband and former coach after five-year relationship. In: Daily Mail. July 29, 2018, accessed January 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pendleton, Victoria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pendleton, Vicky (short name); Pendleton, Victoria Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Stotfold