Rebecca Twigg

Rebecca Twigg

File:Twigg9906 699.jpg Twigg at the 1999 Women's Challenge
Personal information
Full name	Rebecca Twigg
Born	(1963-03-26) March 26, 1963 Seattle, United States
Team information
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Medal record Representing the United States Track racing Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Road race 1992 Barcelona Individual pursuit World Championship 1982 Leicester Individual pursuit 1984 Barcelona Individual pursuit 1985 Bassano Individual pursuit 1987 Vienna Individual pursuit 1993 Hamar Individual pursuit 1995 Bogotá Individual pursuit 1986 Colorado Springs Individual pursuit Pan American Games 1987 Indianapolis Individual pursuit Road bicycle racing Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Road race World Championships 1983 Altenrhein Road race Pan American Games 1987 Indianapolis Road race
Infobox last updated on August 6, 2010

Rebecca Twigg (born March 26, 1963) is an American former racing cyclist, who won six world track cycling championships in the individual pursuit. She also won 16 US championships (the first - the individual time trial - when she was 18) and two Olympic medals, the silver medal in the 1984 road race in Los Angeles, and a bronze medal in the pursuit in Barcelona in 1992.

Twigg won the first three editions of the Women's Challenge on the road.

Twigg was a three-time Olympian (1984, 1992, and 1996). However, her final Olympic appearance, in Atlanta in 1996, ended in controversy when she quit the team in a disagreement with the coach Chris Carmichael and the U.S. Cycling Federation. The federation had invested in the development of the so-called SuperBike. Twigg, after using the bike earlier in the Games, refused to ride it, citing poor individual fit and claiming that pressure from the staff on her to use the SuperBike and their refusal to grant accreditation to her personal coach, Eddie Borysewicz, left her defocused.

External links

• Washington Post article on the controversy at the 1996 Olympic Games
• "Free Wheeling: Rebecca Twigg Has Never Pedaled With The Pack, And She Doesn't Plan To Start Now," Sports Illustrated July 26, 1996