Alison Dunlap

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Alison Dunlap warming up on a trainer at the 2001 Sea Otter Classic

Alison Dunlap (born: July 27, 1969) is an American professional cycle racer who won the World Cross Country Mountain Bike Championship in 2001 and also has 2 Mountain Bike World Cup victories to her credit. In addition, she has a number of high achievements in the road racing aspect of the sport, including a victory in the Redlands Bicycle Classic in 1996.

A two-time Olympian, Dunlap represented the United States in the road bike event at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the cross country mountain bike event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

[edit] Major achievements

UCI Tissot Mountain Bike World Cup Champion (2002)
UCI Mountain Bike World Champion (2001)
Olympic Games 2000: mountain bike, 7th
Olympic Games 1996: road race
Pan American Games: gold medallist (cross country): (1999)
United States National cross-country champion: (1999, 2002, 2004)
United States National short-track cross-country champion: (1999, 2002, 2004)
United States National cyclo-cross champion: (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003)
United States National Road and Omnium Collegiate champion: (1991)
U.S. Olympic Festival gold medallist (road race) (1993)
UCI Tissot World Cup: 2nd overall (2000)
World Mountain Bike Championship: (1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004)
World Road Cycling Championships: 1993-94 (bronze), (1998-99)
World Cyclo-Cross Championships: 2004 (5th) , 2002 (4th), 2000 (7th)
UCI World Cup wins (mtb): two (cross-country); one in cyclo-cross (2002)
Finished on the podium (top 5) in all UCI World Cup races (2000, 2002)
National race wins: eight (cross-country), fourteen (short-track cross-country)
Sea Otter Classic: 1st overall (1999, 2002, 2003, 2004); stage winner (1999-2004)
Hewlett Packard International Women's Challenge (road) stage winner: (1993, 1996, 1997, 2001)
Redlands Cycling Classic (road) 1st overall, one stage win: (2000, 1996)
Tour of Willamette (road) 1st overall, two stage wins: (2001)

[edit] Accolades

Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame Inductee (2003)
VeloNews North American Female Cyclist of the Year (2002, 1999)
Bicycle Retailer and Industry News Female Athlete of the Year (2002)
Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Amateur Athlete of the Year (2001)
Colorado Sportswoman of the Year (2001)
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph Athlete of the Year (2001)
Colorado College Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee (2000).
Named to the Top Ten Greatest Colorado Female Athletes of All Time by the Denver Post (1999)
U.S. Olympic Committee Athlete of the Month (June 1997, December 1999, - December 2000, September 2001)
USA Cycling’s nominee for 1998, 1999 and 2001 USOC SportsWoman of the Year
USA Cycling’s nominee for the 2001 James E. Sullivan Award
Three-time VISA/USA Cycling Elite Mountain Bike Female Athlete of the Year (1997, 1998, 1999)