Jeannie Longo

Jeannie Longo

Longo in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Jeannie Longo
Born	(1958-10-31) 31 October 1958 Annecy, France
Team information
Professional team(s)
1994–1995	Intersport-Nakamura
1998–1999	Ebly
2007	Team Uniqa Graz
2008	Pro Feminin Les Carroz
Medal record Women's cycling Competitor for  France Olympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta Road cycling Silver 1992 Barcelona Road cycling Silver 1996 Atlanta Road time trial Bronze 2000 Sydney Road time trial UCI Track Worlds Gold 1986 Colorado Springs 3 km pursuit Gold 1988 Ghent 3 km pursuit Gold 1989 Lyon 3 km pursuit Gold 1989 Lyon Points race Silver 1984 Barcelona 3 km pursuit Silver 1985 Bassano 3 km pursuit Silver 1987 Vienna 3 km pursuit Bronze 1981 Brno 3 km pursuit Bronze 1982 Leicester 3 km pursuit Bronze 1983 Zürich 3 km pursuit UCI Road World Championships Gold 1985 Road race Gold 1986 Road race Gold 1987 Road race Gold 1989 Road race Gold 1995 Road race Gold 1995 Time trial Gold 1996 Time trial Gold 1997 Time trial Gold 2001 Time trial Silver 1981 Road race Silver 1993 Road race Silver 2000 Time trial Bronze 2001 Road race Bronze 1994 Time trial
Infobox last updated on 26 February 2015

Jeannie Longo (born 31 October 1958 in Annecy, Haute-Savoie) is a French racing cyclist, 59-time French champion and 13-time world champion. Longo is still active in cycling as of 2011 and is widely considered one of the greatest female cyclists of all time. She is famous for her competitive nature and her longevity in a sport where some of her competitors were not yet born during her first Olympic competition in 1984. She was selected to compete for France in the 2008 Olympics, her seventh Olympic Games.^[1] She had stated that this would be her final participation in the Olympics.^[2] In the Women's road race, she finished 24th, 33 seconds behind winner Nicole Cooke, who was one year old when Longo first rode in the Olympics.^[3] At the same Olympics, she finished 4th in the road time trial, just two seconds shy of securing a bronze medal.^[4] She is currently number two on the all-time list of French female summer or winter Olympic medal winners, with a total of four medals, which is one less than the total number won by the fencer Laura Flessel-Colovic.

Career

Longo about to start the time trial stage of the 2001 Women's Challenge

Longo was born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, in the French Alps where she began her athletic career as a downhill skier. After winning the French schools' ski championship and three university skiing championships, she switched to cycling at the urging of her coach (and later husband) Patrice Ciprelli. Within a few months, Longo won the French road race Championship at the age of 21.

She competed both in road and track bicycle racing events, and is an Olympic gold-medalist and thirteen-time world champion. Her palmares include:

• Olympic Games road race: Gold Medal/Champion (1996); Silver Medal (1992)
• Olympic Games time trial: Silver Medal (1996); Bronze Medal (2000)
• 5x UCI Road Race World Championship: Gold Medal/Champion (1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1995)
• 4x UCI Time Trial World Championship: Gold Medal/Champion (1995, 1996, 1997, 2001)
• 4x UCI Track World Championship:
  • Points Race: Gold Medal/Champion (1989)
  • 3 km Pursuit: Gold Medal/Champion (1986, 1988, 1989); Silver Medal (1984, 1985, 1987); Bronze Medal (1981, 1982, 1983)
• Cycling at the 1983 Summer Universiade
  • Individual pursuit: Silver medal
  • Road race: Bronze medal
• UCI Mountain Bike Championship: Silver Medal (1993)
• 15x French Road Race Champion: 1979 to 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2008
• 10x French Time Trial Champion: 1995, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• 3x Tour Cycliste Feminin / Grande Boucle: 1987, 1988, 1989
• 2x Women's Challenge: 1991, 1999
• Set Hour Record (45.094 km/h) in 2000 in Mexico City (14 years after setting the best hour performance record)^1[5]

Doping affair

In September 2011, French sports daily L'Equipe reported that Longo's husband, Patrice Ciprelli, had purchased her the performance enhancing drug EPO from China via former American professional cyclist Joe Papp.^[6][7] The charges prompted an investigation of Longo by the Fédération Française de Cyclisme (FFC)^[8] which cleared her in a November 2011 statement.

Palmarès

See also

• List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games

References

1. ↑ "Longo to seventh Olympic Games". cyclingnews.com. 2 July 2008. 
2. ↑ "A French Cyclist’s Long Ride", New York Times, 28 July 2008.
3. ↑ "Canada's Hobson 17th in cold, wet, women's road cycling race". The Toronto Star. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2008. 
4. ↑ "Women's cycling road race: Individual time trial -final". http://www.abc.net.au/ Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 13 August 2008. 
5. ↑ 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. 
6. ↑ Sayare, Scott (8 February 2012). "Home of Top Female Cyclist Searched". The New York Times. 
7. ↑ "Chronologie des faits - Retour sur la chronologie des événements de l'affaire Ciprelli.". L'Equipe. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2013. 
8. ↑ http://velonews.competitor.com/tag/jeannie-longo
9. ↑ http://www.velonews.com/article/91556/longo-wins-trophee-des-grimpeurs-again

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jeannie Longo.

• Jeannie Longo's web site (in French language only)
• Some cycling records
• Jeannie Longo's Olympic sport reference

UCI Road World Champions – Women's time trial 1994: Karen Kurreck 1995: Jeannie Longo 1996: Jeannie Longo 1997: Jeannie Longo 1998: Leontien van Moorsel 1999: Leontien van Moorsel 2000: Mari Holden 2001: Jeannie Longo 2002: Zulfiya Zabirova 2003: Joane Somarriba 2004: Karin Thürig 2005: Karin Thürig 2006: Kristin Armstrong 2007: Hanka Kupfernagel 2008: Amber Neben 2009: Kristin Armstrong 2010: Emma Pooley 2011: Judith Arndt 2012: Judith Arndt 2013: Ellen van Dijk 2014: Lisa Brennauer