Victoria Pendleton
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| Full name | Victoria Louise Pendleton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 September 1980  United Kingdom |
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| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (140 lb; 9.8 st)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mildenhall Cycling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ??–2008 2008–Present |
Science in Sport / Trek Sky Track Cycling |
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| Infobox last updated on 26 March 2011 |
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Victoria Louise Pendleton MBE (born Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England, 24 September 1980[1]) is a British Olympic and world champion track cyclist. Her father, Max, was also a British national grass-track cycling champion.
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[edit] Early years
Pendleton rode her first race, a 400m event on the grass track at Fordham at nine. Pendleton showed her promise at 13 and was spotted three years later by the assistant national track coach, Marshal Thomas. At that time she wanted to concentrate on her education, graduating from Fearnhill School in Letchworth Garden City, and later awarded a degree in Sport and Exercise Science by Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. She enjoyed some success on the track as a student before graduating and becoming a full-time cyclist.[2]
[edit] Success on the track
Pendleton won one bronze and three silver medals in the British National Track Championships in 2001, while still a student. In 2002, she qualified for the England Commonwealth Games team, finishing fourth in the sprint. She again came fourth in the sprint at the 2003 world championships in Stuttgart and the 2004 World Championships in Melbourne. She ranked 2nd overall in the World Cup for the sprint in 2004, winning the World Cup event in Manchester.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she finished sixth in the time trial and ninth in the women's 200m sprint
At the 2005 World Championships, Pendleton won her first major medal with gold in the women's sprint. She became the third British woman to become a cycling world champion in 40 years.[3]
At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she won silver in the 500m time trial and gold in the sprint.
At the 2007 UCI Track World Championships, she won the team sprint with Shanaze Reade, the individual gold in the women's sprint, and a third gold in the women's Keirin.[4] She crowned the year by being named Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year for 2007, becoming the first cyclist to win the award in its 20-year history.[5] Pendleton was also voted Sports Journalists' Association of Great Britain's sportswoman of the year for 2007.[6] During her build-up to the Olympics she won two gold medals at the 2008 UCI Track World Championships in the women's sprint, and the women's team sprint (again with Shanaze Reade); she was also second in the women's keirin. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Pendleton won the gold medal in the Women's Individual Sprint Event.
Pendleton was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[7]
She retained her world sprint title at the 2009 UCI Track World Championships in Pruszków. Each sprint was so closely matched it required several photos, leaving Pendleton emotional but victorious over her Dutch opponent, Willy Kanis.[8]
[edit] Off-track
In July 2009, Pendleton appeared on the cover of men's magazine FHM.[9] In February 2011 she stated she was engaged but planned not to marry until after the 2012 Olympics.[10]
[edit] Palmarès
- 1999
- 3rd Sprint, British National Track Championships
- 2000
- 3rd Sprint, British National Track Championships
- 2001
- 2nd Sprint, British National Track Championships
- 2nd 500m Time Trial, British National Track Championships
- 2nd Scratch Race, British National Track Championships
- 3rd Points Race, British National Track Championships
- 2002
- 1st
Sprint, British National Track Championships - 1st 500m Time Trial, British National Track Championships
- 2003
- 1st Sprint, British National Track Championships
- 1st 500m Time Trial, British National Track Championships
- 1st Keirin, British National Track Championships
- 1st Scratch Race, British National Track Championships
- 3rd Points Race, British National Track Championships
- 2004
- 1st Sprint, British National Track Championships
- 1st 500m Time Trial, British National Track Championships
- 2005
- 1st
Sprint, World Track Championships - 1st Sprint, British National Track Championships
- 1st 500m Time Trial, British National Track Championships
- 1st Keirin, British National Track Championships
- 1st Scratch Race, British National Track Championships
- 2006
- 1st
Sprint, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne - 2nd
Time Trial, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne - 2nd Sprint, World Track Championships
- 1st Sprint, British National Track Championships
- 1st 500m Time Trial, British National Track Championships
- 1st Keirin, British National Track Championships
- 1st Scratch Race, British National Track Championships
- 1st British National Derny Championships
- 2007
- 1st Sprint, World Track Championships
- 1st Team Sprint (with Shanaze Reade), World Track Championships
- 1st Keirin, World Track Championships
- 1st Sprint, British National Track Championships
- 1st 500m Time Trial, British National Track Championships
- 1st Keirin, British National Track Championships
- 1st British National Derny Championships
- 2008
- 1st Sprint, World Track Championships
- 1st Team Sprint (with Shanaze Reade), World Track Championships
- 2nd Keirin, World Track Championships
- 1st
Sprint, 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing - 1st Sprint, British National Track Championships
- 1st Team Sprint (with Anna Blyth), British National Track Championships
- 1st Keirin, British National Track Championships
- 2009
- 3rd
500 m Time Trial, World Track Championships - 2nd Team Sprint (with Shanaze Reade), World Track Championships
- 1st Sprint, World Track Championships
- 1st 500m Time Trial, British National Track Championships
- 1st Sprint, British National Track Championships
- 2010
- 1st Sprint, World Track Championships
- 2nd Keirin, World Track Championships
- 2011
- 2nd Team Sprint (with Jessica Varnish), World Track Championships
- 3rd Sprint, World Track Championships
- 1st Team Sprint (with Jessica Varnish), European Track Championships
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Victoria Pendleton – Olympic Record". British Olympic Association. http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=5690.
- ^ "Victoria Pendleton’s secrets". London: The Sunday Times. 6 January 2008. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article3137815.ece. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ^ "The first British woman to win gold in the World Cycling Championships". Radio 4, Woman's Hour Interview. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_14_thu_03.shtml.
- ^ Simon Baskett (1 April 2007). "Pendleton completes flawless worlds with third gold". Reuters. http://uk.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUKL016655320070401. Retrieved 2 April 2007.
- ^ Maul, Robert (20 November 2007). "Victoria Pendleton named Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year". London: The Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article2906088.ece. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ^ "Victoria Pendleton Voted Sportswoman of the Year". British Cycling. 13 December 2007. http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/tra/News2007/20071213_Pendleton_Honoured.asp.
- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58929. p. 21. 31 December 2008.
- ^ Andrew Longmore (29 March 2008). "Proud Victoria Pendleton cries tears of joy". London: Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/cycling/article5993406.ece.
- ^ http://www.fhm.com/girls/victoria-pendleton-changes-gear-for-fhm-20090526
- ^ Vesty, Marc (17 February 2011). "Victoria Pendleton admits to 2012 pressure". BBC Sport. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/9400335.stm. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
[edit] External links
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- Official Website
- Profile at British Cycling
- Off the Bike – Victoria hosts the British Cyclosportive DVD – Cyclefilm
- Victoria's secrets – The Guardian
- Victoria Pendleton's secrets – The Times
- Profile at Cycling UK
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Track cyclists
- English cyclists
- Female cyclists
- UCI World Champions
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
- Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Alumni of Northumbria University
- People from Stotfold
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year award winners
- Olympic medalists in cycling
