Rebecca Twigg
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| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Olympic Games | ||
| Silver | 1984 Los Angeles | Road Race |
| Bronze | 1992 Barcelona | 3km Pursuit |
| World Championship | ||
| Gold | 1982 Leicester | 3km Pursuit |
| Gold | 1984 Barcelona | 3km Pursuit |
| Gold | 1985 Bassano | 3km Pursuit |
| Gold | 1987 Vienna | 3km Pursuit |
| Gold | 1993 Hamar | 3km Pursuit |
| Gold | 1995 Bogota | 3km Pursuit |
| Silver | 1986 Colorado Springs | 3 km Pursuit |
Rebecca Twigg (born March 26, 1963) is an American female cycle racer, who won six World Track Cycling Championship titles in the Individual Pursuit event. During her cycling career, she also won 16 U.S. National Championship titles (the first of which - in the Individual Time Trial - took place when she was just 18 years old) and two Olympic medals (Silver medal in the 1984 Road Race in Los Angeles, and Bronze medal in the 1992 Track Pursuit in Barcelona).
Twigg also made her mark in road stage races. In 1984-86, she won the first three editions of the Women's Challenge.
Twigg was a three-time Olympian (1984, 1992, and 1996). However, her final Olympic appearance, in Atlanta in 1996, ended in controversy when she quit the team in a disagreement with the team coach Chris Carmichael and the U.S. Cycling Federation. The national federation had invested heavily in the development of the so-called "SuperBike". Twigg, after using the bike in an earlier portion of the Games, subsequently refused to ride it, citing poor individual fit and claiming that pressure from the staff on her to use the SuperBike and their refusal to grant formal accreditation to her longtime personal coach, Eddie Borysewicz, left her defocused.
