Summary
Yvonne McGregor MBE (born 9 April 1961)[1][2] is a female English former professional cyclist from Wibsey. She was made an MBE, for services to cycling, in the 2002 New Year Honours.[3]
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| Full name | Yvonne McGregor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 April 1961 England United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track & Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time triallist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| World Champion, pursuit (2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Cycling career edit
McGregor competed in running until the age of 28, coming eighth at the 1988 world fell running championship, and did not ride a bicycle until she was 17. She started cycling competitively in triathlon,[4] finishing third in the British championship in 1990,[5] and focused on it when she injured her Achilles tendon.[4] In 1993 she broke Beryl Burton's 20-year-old British 10 mile time-trial record with 21 minutes 15 seconds.[6] She scored her first major success when she won the points race at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada.[6][7][8]
On 17 June 1995 in Manchester she set an hour record for women at 47.411 km.[9] McGregor broke Burton's 25-mile time-trial record in 1996, setting 51 minutes 30 seconds.[6] She missed out on a medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, finishing fourth in the pursuit. However she took the bronze in the same event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, thus winning the first Olympic Medal in any cycling discipline by a female British rider. She then won the pursuit at the 2000 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester less than two months later.[6]
Following changes to the hour record which disallowed the bike and position she used to set the record in 1995, McGregor set a European and sea-level hour record of 43.689 km on 13 April 2002.[10] This remained the British record until Sarah Storey surpassed it in 2015. This ended McGregor's competitive cycling career. Since retiring she has worked as a sports massage therapist.[4]
Palmarès edit
- 1994
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st Points race
- 3rd Team time trial (with Maxine Johnson, Maria Lawrence and Julia Freeman)[11]
- 1st
Pursuit, British National Track Championships - 1st British Best All-Rounder
- 1995
- World Hour record: 47.411 km
- 1st Pursuit, British National Track Championships[12]
- 1996
- 1st Pursuit, British National Track Championships[12]
- 1997
- 1st Pursuit, British National Track Championships[12]
- 3rd Pursuit, UCI Track World Championships, Women
- 3rd Round 4, 1997 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 1998
- 1st Pursuit, British National Track Championships
- 3rd Pursuit, 1998 Commonwealth Games
- 1999
- 1st Pursuit, British National Track Championships
- 2nd British National Road Race Championships
- 2000
- 1st Pursuit, UCI Track World Championships, Women
- 1st Pursuit, British National Track Championships
- 3rd Pursuit, Summer Olympics
- 3rd British National Road Race Championships
- 3rd British National Time Trial Championships
- 2nd Mexico Round, 2000 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 2001
- 1st British National Time Trial Championships
- 2nd Pursuit, British National Track Championships
References edit
- ^ "Yvonne McGregor MBE". British Olympic Association.
- ^ "Yvonne McGregor". Cycling Website.
- ^ "Cyclist McGregor honoured". BBC. 31 December 2001.
- ^ a b c "Yvonne McGregor MBE". Bradford College. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
- ^ Mott, Sue (4 January 2002). "Iron-hard world champion retires from cycling with a well-earned royal accolade". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Cyclist McGregor honoured". bbc.co.uk. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- ^ "1994 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ Clemitson, Suze (19 September 2014). "Why Jens Voigt and a new group of cyclists want to break the Hour record". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
- ^ "A glorious swansong". Cycling News. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ Mackay, Duncan (19 August 1994). "Commonwealth Games: England enjoy silver medal start: Cyclists and shooters show their paces". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ a b c "British National Track Championships: The winners since 1995". Cycling Weekly. 22 September 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2015.