Yvonne McGregor

English cyclist

Yvonne McGregor
MBE
Personal information
Full nameYvonne McGregor
Born (1961-04-09) 9 April 1961 (age 63)
 England
 United Kingdom
Team information
DisciplineTrack & Road
RoleRider
Rider typeTime triallist
Major wins
World Champion, pursuit (2000)
Medal record
Women's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney 3,000m pursuit
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2000 Manchester 3,000m pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Perth 3,000m pursuit
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1994 Victoria points
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Kuala Lumpur 3,000m pursuit
Women's road bicycle racing
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Victoria team time trial

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]

Cycling career

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

1994
Commonwealth Games
1st Points race
3rd Team time trial (with Maxine Johnson, Maria Lawrence and Julia Freeman)[11]
1st United Kingdom Pursuit, British National Track Championships
1st British Best All-Rounder
1995
World Hour record: 47.411 km
1st United Kingdom Pursuit, British National Track Championships[12]
1996
1st United Kingdom Pursuit, British National Track Championships[12]
1997
1st United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom Pursuit, British National Track Championships
3rd Pursuit, 1998 Commonwealth Games
1999
1st United Kingdom Pursuit, British National Track Championships
2nd British National Road Race Championships
2000
1st Pursuit, UCI Track World Championships, Women
1st United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom British National Time Trial Championships
2nd Pursuit, British National Track Championships

References

  1. ^ "Yvonne McGregor MBE". British Olympic Association.
  2. ^ "Yvonne McGregor". Cycling Website.
  3. ^ "Cyclist McGregor honoured". BBC. 31 December 2001.
  4. ^ a b c "Yvonne McGregor MBE". Bradford College. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b c d "Cyclist McGregor honoured". bbc.co.uk. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  7. ^ "1994 Athletes". Team England.
  8. ^ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "A glorious swansong". Cycling News. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ a b c "British National Track Championships: The winners since 1995". Cycling Weekly. 22 September 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
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