Monika Schachl

Monika Schachl
Personal information
Full name Monika Schachl
Born 21 August 1978
Mondsee, Vöcklabruck, Austria
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road, mountain biking
Role Rider, time-trialist, cross-country biker
Professional team(s)
2004 RC ELK Haus Tirol
2005 Elk Haus-Simplon
2007 Team Uniqa Graz
2008 Uniqa
2009 Uniqa – Elk
Major wins
Infobox last updated on
October 13, 2013

Monika Schachl (born August 21, 1978 in Mondsee) is a retired Austrian professional road cyclist and mountain biker.[1] She represented her nation Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and later captured three Austrian championship titles each in mountain biking, road race, and time trial during the 2005 and 2008 seasons.[2] Before her official retirement in 2009, Schachl rode for Team Uniqa Graz in the women's elite professional events on the UCI Women's World Cup, UCI World Championships, and Austrian Championships.[3]

Schachl qualified for the Austrian squad in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics by receiving one of the nation's two available berths from the UCI World Cup.[4][5] She successfully completed a grueling race with a forty-sixth place effort in 3:36:37, trailing behind Belgium's Lieselot Decroix and Mexico's Alessandra Grassi by a scanty, two-second gap.[6][7]

Career highlights

2005
1st Austrian Mountain Bike Championships
2006
1st Stage 5, Krasna Lipa Tour Féminine, Krásná Lípa (CZE)
3rd Austrian Championships (Road)
3rd Austrian Championships (ITT)
2007
1st Overall, Rad-Tage Salzkammergut, Salzkammergut (AUT)
1st Stage 5, Krasna Lipa Tour Féminine, Krásná Lípa (CZE)
2nd Overall, Wiener Radfest, Vienna (AUT)
3rd Austrian Championships (Road), Podersdorf am See (AUT)
2008
1st Overall, Wiener Radfest, Vienna (AUT)
1st Austrian Championships (Road)
1st Austrian Championships (ITT), Seefeld in Tirol (AUT)
46th Olympic Games (Road), Beijing (CHN)

References

  1. ↑ "Monika Schachl". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Radsport: Monika Schachl Straßen-Staatsmeisterin" [Cycling: Monika Schachl is the road national champion] (in German). Salzburg24.at. 30 June 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Monika Schachl holte Gold" [Monika Schachl won gold] (in German). Kleine Zeitung. 14 June 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  4. ↑ "Gold - Schachl bleibt damit auf Olympia-Kurs" [Gold – Schachl thus remains on Olympic course] (in German). Kleine Zeitung. 29 June 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Olympia: 72 österreichische Athleten für Peking" [Olympics: 72 Austrian athletes for Beijing] (in German). Die Presse. 29 June 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Women's Road Race". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  7. ↑ "Cooke weathers storm to take Olympic gold". Velo News. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2013.

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