Jeanne Golay Explained
Jeanne Marie Golay (born April 16, 1962) is an American former road bicycle racing professional from Coral Gables, Florida. She won the 1992, 1994 and 1995 United States National Road Race Championships, and the 1992 world team time-trial championship, and competed in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and 1996 Atlanta Olympics.[1] In 2008, in Davis California, she was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in the category Modern Road & Track Competitor.[2]
In Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a training and exercise trail formerly known as Red Mountain Trail has been renamed the Jeanne Golay Trail.
Major results
- 1988
- 1st place in USA National Rankings, USA.
- 1989
- 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Individual (ITT), USA.
- 1990
- 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Team (TTT), USA.
Tested positive for steroids in 1990, pulled from TTT Team
- 1991
- 1st place in Tour of the Alpine Banks, USA.
- 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Team (TTT), USA.
- 1st place in Pan American Games (TTT), Cuba.
- 1st place in Pan American Games (RR), Cuba.
- 1st place in Brick Criterium, USA
- 1992
- 1st place in Westfriese Tweedaagse, Holland.
- 1st place in Brecht, Belgium.
- 1st place in Omloop Van Het Molenheike, Holland.
- 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Individual (ITT), USA.
- 1st place in National Time Trial Championships – Team (TTT), USA.
- 1st place in National Road Championships, USA.
- 1st place in World Time Trial Championships – Team (TTT), Spain.
- USCF Athlete of the Year Award.
- 1993
- 1st place in Mike Nields Memorial, USA.
- 1st place in International Idaho Women's Challenge, USA.
- 1st place in Athens Zanesville, USA.
- 1994
- 1995
- 1st place in Pan American Games, (RR), Argentina.
- 1st place in Sequoia Cycling Classic, USA.
- 1st place in National Road Championships, USA.
- 1st place in Frigidaire Cycling Classic, USA.
- 1st place in Colorado Cycling Classic, USA.
- 1st place in Fresca Cup, USA.
- 1st place in USA National Rankings.
- 1996
- 1st place in Valley of the Sun, USA.
- 1st place in National Criterium Championships, USA.
Notes and References
- Jeanne Golay Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417101810/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/jeanne-golay-1.html . dead . April 17, 2020 . August 27, 2016.
- usbhof.org/inductees