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Gary John Anderson is a former track and road cyclist from New Zealand who won an Olympic bronze medal and three Commonwealth Games gold medals.
Jack Bobridge is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2016.
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Marc Ryan is a New Zealand racing cyclist.
The cycling competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at five venues between 28 July and 12 August. The venues were the London Velopark for track cycling and BMX, and Hadleigh Farm, in Essex, for mountain biking. The road races took place over a course starting and ending in The Mall in central London and heading out into Surrey, while the time trials started and finished at Hampton Court Palace in Richmond upon Thames. Eighteen events were contested and around 500 athletes participated.
Dame Laura Rebecca Kenny, Lady Kenny, is a former British professional track and road cyclist who specialised in track endurance events, specifically the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race, elimination race and madison disciplines.
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Luvsangiin Buudai is a former Mongolian cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Francesco Lamon is an Italian professional track and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Biesse–Carrera. He rode in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics held at Tokyo in 2021, setting a new world record.
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