Renee Duprel
American track cyclist
Renee Duprel (1966) is a former American professional track cyclist. She competed at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships from 1989 to 1991, placing second in 1990, and she placed second in the Pan American Games in 1987. In 1993, she was named as a member of the Senior National Cycling Team.
Awards
1987 Pan American Games sprint silver medalist
1988 Paris (Île-de-France) sprint bronze medalist
1989 United States National Track Championships sprint silver medalist
1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships sprint silver medalist
1990 Goodwill Games bronze medalist
1990 United States National Track Championships sprint champion
1991 United States National Track Championships sprint champion
Personal life
Duprel attended Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bellevue, Washington. Though she originally had wanted to participate in basketball and gymnastics, she began cycling when her father told her it would be good training for basketball, and then he and her brother "used to drop [her] on the hills and [rush her]." She disliked cycling until her father signed both siblings up for track racing classes, where she would race against boys as there were no other girls. When racing during her childhood at the Marymoor Velodrome, she and her brother would nearly get kicked out of races for arguing beforehand. She was also still often the only girl competing. In 1988, she moved from Washington to the East coast and the Lehigh County Velodrome where there were more women to train against.
During the racing seasons, Duprel would train in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. Duprel dated fellow track cyclist and sprinter Ken Carpenter.
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