Yvonne McGregor

Yvonne McGregor

To person
Date of birth	April 9, 1961
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Track (endurance / short term); Street
End of career	2001
Most important successes
Olympic games 2000 - one's pursuit
Last updated: December 13, 2017

Yvonne McGregor , MBE , (born April 9, 1961 in Wibsey , Bradford ) is a British cyclist .

Athletic career

Yvonne McGregor only started competitive cycling at the age of 29. Her first big success was winning the gold medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria in the points race . The following year, she set a new hour record (47.441 km) in Bogotá .

1997 McGregor was third at the UCI Track World Championships in Perth in the singles pursuit ; In 2000 she became world champion in this discipline; In 2001 she took fourth place in Antwerp

Yvonne McGregor took part in the Olympic Games twice, in 1996 in Atlanta , where, to her great disappointment, she only finished fourth in her favorite discipline, the single pursuit, in the 500-meter time trial she was 14th. At the 2000 Games in Sydney , she won the bronze medal in one's pursuit. There she also took part in the road race and finished 24th.

Yvonne McGregor was British track champion 19 times, at the end of her career in 2001 in the individual time trial on the road.

Others

In January 2002, Yvonne McGregor was awarded the Order of the British Empire . In 2010 she was one of the first 50 athletes to be inducted into the newly founded "British Bicycle Hall of Fame". Since 2006 she has been running the “Full Cycle” training school in Stoke-on-Trent together with trainer Ken Matheson .

successes

train

1994

• Commonwealth Games Winner - Points Race
• Commonwealth Games - one's pursuit
• British Champion - One Pursuit

1997

• World Championship - Individual Pursuit

1998

• British Champion - One Pursuit

1999

• British Champion - One Pursuit

2000

• Olympic Games - One's Pursuit
• World Champion - Single Pursuit
• British Champion - One Pursuit

Street

1994

• Commonwealth Games - Individual Time Trial
• British Champion - One Pursuit

2001

• British Champion - Individual Time Trial

Web links

• Yvonne McGregor in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Yvonne McGregor in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Yvonne McGregor. In: Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved December 13, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Suze Clemitson: Yvonne McGregor interview: on the hour record, Sarah Storey and Bradley Wiggins. In: theguardian.com. May 17, 2017, accessed December 13, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Cyclist McGregor honored. In: news.bbc.co.uk. December 31, 2001, accessed December 13, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Ally Fisher: Heroes named in Hall of Fame. In: skysports.com. February 19, 2015, accessed December 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Britishcycling.org.uk: "Yvonne McGregor and Ken Matheson launch Full-Cycle" ( Memento of August 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)