Gu Sung-eun
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Full name | Gu Sung-eun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | South Korea | 19 August 1984|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gu Sung-eun (born 19 August 1984) is a South Korean professional racing cyclist.
Career
[edit]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]
Major results
[edit]Source: [3]
- 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)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "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.
External links
[edit]- Gu Sung-eun at ProCyclingStats
- Gu Sung-eun at Cycling Archives
Categories:
- 1984 births
- Living people
- South Korean female cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for South Korea
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Cyclists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Summer World University Games medalists in cycling
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for South Korea
- Asian Games competitors for South Korea
- 20th-century South Korean women
- 21st-century South Korean women