Wendy Houvenaghel

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Wendy Houvenaghel Road cycling
Wendy Houvenaghel (2008)
Wendy Houvenaghel (2008)
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Date of birth November 27, 1974
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Train / street
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Current team End of career
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Last updated: June 21, 2016

Wendy Louise Houvenaghel , b. McLean , (born November 27, 1974 in Magherafelt , Ulster ) is a former British cyclist and three-time world champion with successes on track and road .

Athletic career

In 2002, at the age of 28, Wendy Houvenaghel began serious competitive cycling. In the following years she won national titles and World Cup placements on track and road.

In 2008 , Houvenaghel became world champion for the first time in Manchester , in the team pursuit (with Rebecca Romero and Joanna Rowsell ). At the Track World Championships in 2009 in Pruszków , she won her second title with the team (with Elizabeth Armitstead and Rowsell), in the single pursuit she was runner-up world champion. On September 13, 2009 she won the individual time trial Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen in Bétheny .

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , Wendy Houvenaghel won a silver medal in the single pursuit behind her teammate Rebecca Romero . Two years later, she finished second in the singles pursuit at the 2010 Commonwealth Games . In November 2010 she became European team pursuit champion together with Katie Colclough and Laura Trott . At the UCI Track World Championships in 2011 she was again world champion in the team pursuit, together with Laura Trott and Danielle King , the following year she was runner-up in the single pursuit in Melbourne .

In 2012, Houvenaghel became the British time trial champion and won the Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen race again. At the UCI Track World Championships in 2012 , she finished second in the single pursuit. Despite these good results, she was not nominated for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and she ended her cycling career.

Professional and private

Wendy Houvenaghel was already very athletic during her school days, she did hockey, cross-country skiing and horse riding (but not cycling). After graduating from high school, she began studying dentistry at the University of Dundee ; During this time she also got to know her husband. She then worked as a dentist for the Royal Air Force . From 2004 she only worked part-time to concentrate increasingly on cycling.

successes

train

2005
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Champion - One Pursuit
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011

Street

2007
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Champion - Individual Time Trial
2009
2011
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Champion - Individual Time Trial
2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirsty Ho Fat: Five minutes with Wendy Houvenaghel, moving on post London 2012 Olympics. Total Women Cycling, May 23, 2013, accessed December 24, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Houvenaghel, Wendy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Houvenaghel, Wendy Louise (full name); McLean, Wendy Louise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Magherafelt