Marion Clignet
Appearance
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Full name | Marion Clignet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Hyde Park, Chicago, United States | 21 February 1964||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Track, road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Pursuit, time-trialist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marion Clignet (born 21 February 1964) is a French former track cyclist. Clignet was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 22 and was shunned by the United States Cycling Federation,[1] and she subsequently raced for France since 1991. She rode at three Olympic Games for France.[2]
Palmarès
- 1990
United States National Road Championships
Road race
After 1990, Clignet competed in the French national championships
- 1991
- National Track Championships
Individual pursuit
- National Road Championships
Road race
- Road World Championships
Team time trial (with Nathalie Gendron, Catherine Marsal and Cécile Odin)
- Track Cycling World Championships, Stuttgart
Individual pursuit
- 1992
- National Track Championships
Individual pursuit
- National Road Championships
Road race
- 1993
- National Road Championships
Road race
- 2nd, Overall, Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
- Track Cycling World Championships, Hamar
Individual pursuit
- 1994
- 1st, Chrono des Herbiers
- Track Cycling World Championships, Palermo
Individual pursuit
- 1995
- National Track Championships
Individual pursuit
- 1996
- National Track Championships
Individual pursuit
- National Road Championships
Individual time trial
- Track Cycling World Championships, Manchester
Individual pursuit
- 1st, Overall, Tour du Finistère
- 1st, Prologue
- 1st, Stage 1
- 1st, Stage 2
- 1st, Stage 3
- 1st, Stage 4
- 1st, Stage 5
- Olympic Games, Atlanta
Individual pursuit
- 5th, Road race
- 1999
- National Track Championships
Individual pursuit
Points race
- Track Cycling World Championships, Berlin
Individual pursuit
Points race
- Track Cycling World Cup
- 1st, Individual pursuit, Cali
- 1st, Points race, Cali
- 2000
- National Track Championships
Individual pursuit
Points race
- National Road Championships
Individual time trial
- Track Cycling World Championships, Manchester
Points race
- Olympic Games, Sydney
Individual pursuit
- 1st, Route Féminine Du Vignoble Nantais
- 2003
- National Track Championships
Individual pursuit
- Track Cycling World Cup
- 2nd, Points race, Sydney
References
- ^ Raia, James (14 June 2007). "Marion Clignet: The Life & Times Of An Epileptic Cycling Champion". Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marion Clignet Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
External links
- Marion Clignet at Cycling Archives
- Cyclingnews: Marion Clignet's Back (Early 2000)
- Hersh, Philip (17 May 2000). "Battling Through Illness And Injury, Ex-evanston Resident Marion Clignet Has Become A French Olympian And A Gold-medal Threat". Chicago Tribune.
Categories:
- French female cyclists
- Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of France
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Sportspeople from Chicago
- People with epilepsy
- UCI Road World Champions (women)
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Officers of the National Order of Merit (France)
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women)
- American female cyclists
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- American track cyclists
- French cycling biography, 1960s birth stubs
- French cycling Olympic medalist stubs