Sungeun_Gu
Gu Sung-eun
South Korean cyclist
Gu Sung-eun (born 19 August 1984) is a South Korean professional racing cyclist.
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Full name | Gu Sung-eun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1984-08-19) 19 August 1984 (age 39) South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Having finished third in the road race in the 2007 UCI B World Championships and second in the time trial, Gu qualified to represent her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Gu crashed in the road race when she lost control of her bike on the wet roads, bringing others down with her. She eventually found herself falling into a concrete ditch on the side of the highway but got back on her bike to finish 59th.[2]
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- 2002
- UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships
- 2003
- Asian Track Championships
- 2004
- 2nd Scratch, UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Sydney
- 2005
- Asian Track Championships
- 2007
- UCI B World Championships
- Asian Track Championships
- 3rd Road race, Asian Road Championships
- 2011
- 1st Road race, Summer Universiade
- 2nd Road race, Asian Road Championships
- 2012
- 2nd Road race, Asian Road Championships
- 9th Overall Tour of Thailand
- 2014
- 3rd Road race, Asian Road Championships
- 2015
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 2020
- 2nd Madison, National Track Championships (with Kim Hyun-ji)
- "Athlete Biography: GU Sungeun". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 13 August 2008.
- Susan Westemeyer (10 August 2008). "Women's road race, complete live report". Cycling News. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
- "Sung Eun Gu". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- Gu Sung-eun at ProCyclingStats
- Gu Sung-eun at Cycling Archives