Yvonne Reynders
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Full name | Yvonne Reynders | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Schaerbeek, Belgium | 4 August 1937||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road and track | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yvonne Reynders (born 4 August 1937) is a former track and road cyclist from Belgium. With Beryl Burton of Great Britain, Reynders was one of the top female riders of the 1960s, winning 13 medals at world championships, including seven gold medals.[1]
Reynders' first sport was
Reynders won her first world road title in 1959. In 1961 she won her second, defeating Burton and Elsy Jacobs, and also won the world individual pursuit title the same year.[2] She won two more road world titles, in 1963 on home ground in the Belgian city of Ronse, and in 1966 at the Nürburgring in West Germany, and another two track rainbow jerseys, in 1964 and 1965. She initially retired from competition in 1967, however she returned to racing in 1976 at the age of 39: she took her final world championship medal, a bronze, at that year's Road World Championships. She retired a second time the following year.[3]
Reynders is a pedicure specialist.[4]
References
- ^ Yvonne Reynders at Cycling Archives
- ^ a b Sidwells, Chris (8 November 2016). "How they used to train: How delivering coal helped Yvonne Reynders become a multiple world champion". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ "UCI Road World Championships – Yvonne Reynders, portrait of a pioneer". Union Cycliste Internationale. 16 September 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ ""Voor een tafelkleed als trofee dopeer je je niet"". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
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