Nora Young (cyclist)
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| Born | September 8, 1917 Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 March 2016 (aged 98) Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Early era athlete who rose to prominence as one of the top female road cyclists in Canada | ||||||||||||||
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| 1930s & 1940s (aged 17 to 35) | Individual | ||||||||||||||
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| 1985 to 1999 (aged 68 to 82) | World Master’s Games; U.S National Senior Olympics, | ||||||||||||||
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| First place in the (unofficial) Women's race held during the 1936 Olympic Cycling (men only) tryouts event in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (source: Toronto Daily Star, June 29, 1936) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nora Young (1917-2016) was a competitive Canadian cyclist who was inducted posthumously into the Canadian Cycling Hall of Fame on September 30, 2018.
Young was one of the top Canadian female cyclists in the 1930s and 1940s.
She also competed in a number of other sports such as softball, hockey, basketball, and others. She continued to win medals into her 70s and 80s.