Galina Tsareva
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Born | (1950-04-19) 19 April 1950 (age 74) Velikie Luki, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Lokomotiv | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Galina Georgievna Tsareva (Russian: Галина Георгиевна Царева; born 19 April 1950) is a retired Soviet sprint cyclist who dominated the UCI Track Cycling World Championships of 1969–1980, winning 6 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals. Between 1969 and 1987 she won at least 10 national titles. She had an unusually long cycling career and was a candidate for the 1988 Olympic team, when women's track cycling was first introduced to the Olympics.[1][2]
She married cycling coach Aleksandr Kuznetsov, they have three children. Nikolai (b. 1973) is a Russian cyclist who won a silver medal at the 1996 Olympics; Aleksei is also a competitive cyclist, whereas Svetlana (b. 1985) is a prominent Russian tennis player.
Major Results
- 1969
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Sprint
- 1970
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Sprint
- 1971
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Sprint
- 1974
- UCI World Championships
- 3rd Sprint
- 1977
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Sprint
- 1978
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Sprint
- 1979
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Sprint
- 1980
- UCI World Championships
- 2nd Sprint
- 1987
- 3rd Paris, Sprint
- 1989
- 1st Paris, Sprint
References
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- 1958–61: Galina Yermolayeva
- 1962: Valentina Savina
- 1963: Galina Yermolayeva
- 1964: Irina Kirichenko
- 1965: Valentina Savina
- 1966: Irina Kirichenko
- 1967: Valentina Savina
- 1968: Alla Bagiyanz
- 1969–71: Galina Tsareva
- 1972: Galina Yermolayeva
- 1973: Sheila Young
- 1974: Tamara Piltsikova
- 1975: Sue Novara-Reber
- 1976: Sheila Young
- 1977–79: Galina Tsareva
- 1980: Sue Novara-Reber
- 1981: Sheila Young
- 1982–84: Connie Paraskevin
- 1985: Isabelle Nicoloso
- 1987: Erika Salumäe
- 1989: Erika Salumäe
- 1990: Connie Paraskevin
- 1991: Ingrid Haringa
- 1993: Tanya Dubnicoff
- 1994: Galina Yenyukhina
- 1995–99: Félicia Ballanger
- 2000: Natallia Tsylinskaya
- 2001: Svetlana Grankovskaya
- 2002: Natallia Tsylinskaya
- 2003–04: Svetlana Grankovskaya
- 2005: Victoria Pendleton
- 2006: Natallia Tsylinskaya
- 2007–10: Victoria Pendleton
- 2011: Anna Meares
- 2012: Victoria Pendleton
- 2013: Becky James
- 2014–15: Kristina Vogel
- 2016: Zhong Tianshi
- 2017–18: Kristina Vogel
- 2019: Lee Wai-sze
- 2020–21: Emma Hinze
- 2022: Mathilde Gros
- 2023: Emma Finucane