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Full name | Grethe Monica Eikild Valen | ||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Skien, Norway [1] | 15 September 1970 ||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Grethe Monica Eikild Valen (born 15 September 1970) is a Norwegian racing cyclist. She won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship five times in the 1990s. [2]
She was born in Skien and is the sister of Anita Valen. She was married to Svein Inge Valvik. [3] [1]
She competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where she placed fifth, and at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where she placed 29th. [3] She won a gold medal at the 1994 UCI Road World Championships. [1]
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