Marie Purvis

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Marie Purvis
Personal information
Born (1961-09-24) 24 September 1961 (age 61)
Manchester, England
Major wins
National Road Race Champion (1990–1993, 1995)

Marie Purvis (born 24 September 1961), now known as Marie Morgan, is an English former racing cyclist who represented Great Britain at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. [1] [2] She won the British National Road Race Championships on five occasions.

Purvis had excelled as a runner in her school years, scoring a top 15 finish in the English Schools National Cross-Country Championship, but gave up the sport after suffering a serious calf injury at the age of 19. [3]

She subsequently married John Purvis, a Manx cyclist who had finished fourth in the road race at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. Marie initially took up cycling at the age of 26 to improve her fitness, but soon progressed into competition, twice breaking the Isle of Man women's 10-mile time trial record in 1988. She was selected to represent the Isle of Man at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, and in the same year won her first British Road Racing title - she dominated the event in the first half of the 1990s, winning five out of six editions of the national championships from 1990 to 1995, taking her final title in 1995 on the Isle of Man. [4] She finished fourth in the road race at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. [3]

She became the first British rider to win a stage of the modern Tour de France Féminin since its establishment in 1984 when she won a stage of the 1993 race, following it up with another stage win in the 1995 edition. [3]

Purvis set a new British hour record at Manchester Velodrome on 10 March 1995, beating Mandy Jones' previous mark set in 1981 by over two kilometres. [3]

She scored her best result at the Olympics in the 1996 Games road race, when she finished 11th. She retired from international competition the same year. [3]

In 2001, she returned to her roots in athletics when she won gold in the half-marathon at the 2001 Island Games. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Marie Purvis at Cycling Archives
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marie Purvis Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Marie Purvis: British Legend". Cycling Weekly . 1 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Courses for British national championships revealed". cyclingnews.com . 4 May 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
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