Catherine Marsal

Catherine Marsal
Personal information
Full name	Catherine Marsal
Born	20 January 1971 (age 53); Metz, France
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Team information
Current team	Ciclotel
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider (retired); Directeur sportif;
Professional teams
1994	SLV–Winora
1998	Mimosa
1999–2000	Edil Savino
2001	Intersport
2002	Saturn
2003	Team Rona Esker
2004	Nobili Rubinetterie–Guerciotti
Managerial teams
2005	Team SATS Cycling
2006	Nobili Rubinetterie–Menikini Cogeas
2010–2014	Maersk Fitness–Previa Sundhed
2015–2019	Danish Cycling
2019	Bigla Pro Cycling
2020–	Ciclotel
Major wins
	UCI Individual Road Race (1990); Giro d'Italia Femminile (1990)

Catherine Marsal (born 20 January 1971) is a French former racing cyclist. She has been World Champion four times and raced professionally around the world. At the age of 17 she was selected for the French Olympic Team for the first time. Since then, she represented her native country at four Summer Olympics: 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000.^[1]

Marsal retired from cycling in 2005 when she was recruited by Team SATS Cycling to become sports director for the Danish team. The team became number one on the UCI ranking. In April 2015 Marsal was hired by the Danish Cycling Union to be the national coach of the Danish female cycling team.

Marsal currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Women's Continental Team Ciclotel.^[2]

Personal life

Marsal is married and lives in Copenhagen. She gave birth to a son in 2013.

Palmares

1987: 1st Road Race, UCI Junior Road World Championships; 2nd Individual pursuit, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships

1988: 1st Individual pursuit, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships; 1st Overall Tour de Bretagne; 3rd Points race, National Track Championships; 10th Olympic Games Time Trial

1989

1st

Overall Tour de Bretagne

UCI Road World Championships

2nd Road Race

3rd Team Time Trial

2nd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships

1990

1st

Road Race, UCI Road World Championships

1st

Road Race, National Road Championships

1st

Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile

1st

Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin

1st

Overall Tour of Norway

1st Stage 7

4th Tour de Okinawa

1991: 1st Team Time Trial, UCI Road World Championships; 2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin

1992: 2nd Team Time Trial, UCI Road World Championships; 2nd Coppa delle Nazioni

1993: 2nd Road Race, National Road Championships

1994

1st

Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin

1st Stage 8

1st Calan Road Race

2nd Overall Tour de Bretagne

2nd Overall Tour du Finistère

1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 4

1995

Hour record 47.112 kilometres (29.274 mi)

1st Stage 8 Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale

2nd Road Race, UCI Road World Championships

National Road Championships

2nd Road Race

2nd Time Trial

National Track Championships

2nd Individual pursuit

2nd Points race

1996

1st

Road Race, National Road Championships

National Track Championships

3rd Individual pursuit

3rd Points race

3rd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin

10th Road Race, UCI Road World Championships

1997

National Road Championships

1st

Time Trial

3rd Road Race

National Track Championships

1st

Individual pursuit

1st

Points race

2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

3rd Road Race, UCI Road World Championships

1998: 2nd Trophée International de Saint-Amand-Mont-Rond; 3rd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin; 3rd La Flèche Wallonne

1999: 1st Points Race, National Track Championships; 2nd Time Trial, National Road Championships; 3rd Ronde van Drenthe

2000: 2nd Road Race, National Road Championships; 2nd Boucles Nontronnaises

2001: 3rd Road Race, National Road Championships

2002: 1st Stage 1 Vuelta Castilla y Leon; 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin

2004: 3rd GP des Nations

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Catherine Marsal Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
^ "Ciclotel". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2020.

External links

Catherine Marsal at Cycling Archives (archived)
Catherine Marsal at ProCyclingStats

[SportsRef-1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Catherine Marsal Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2016.

[2] "Ciclotel". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2020.

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v t e French National Road Race Champions (women)
1940–1959	Lucienne Benoît (1951) Jeannine Lemaire (1952–1953) Noelle Sabbe (1954) Lydia Brein-Haritonides (1955) Lyli Herse (1956–1959)
1960–1979	Renée Vissac (1960) Lyli Herse (1961–1963) Andrée Flageolet (1964) Lyli Herse (1965) Gisèle Caille (1966) Lyli Herse (1967) Chantal N'Guten (1968) Geneviève Gambillon (1969–1970) Annick Chapron (1971) Geneviève Gambillon (1972) Élisabeth Camus (1973) Geneviève Gambillon (1974–1977) Chantal Fortier (1978) Jeannie Longo (1979)
1980–1999	Jeannie Longo (1980–1985) Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (1986–1989) Catherine Marsal (1990) Marion Clignet (1991) Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (1992) Marion Clignet (1993) Chantal Gorostegui (1994) Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (1995) Catherine Marsal (1996) Sylvie Riedle (1997) Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (1998–1999)
2000–2019	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (2000–2001) Magali Le Floc'h (2002) Sonia Huguet (2003) Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (2004) Magali Le Floc'h (2005) Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (2006) Edwige Pitel (2007) Jeannie Longo (2008) Christel Ferrier-Bruneau (2009) Mélodie Lesueur (2010) Christel Ferrier-Bruneau (2011) Marion Rousse (2012) Élise Delzenne (2013) Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (2014–2015) Edwige Pitel (2016) Charlotte Bravard (2017) Aude Biannic (2018) Jade Wiel (2019)
2020–2039	Audrey Cordon-Ragot (2020) Évita Muzic (2021) Audrey Cordon-Ragot (2022) Victoire Berteau (2023) Juliette Labous (2024)