Linda Jackson (cyclist)

Infobox Cyclist
ridername = Linda Jackson

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image_caption =Linda Jackson, wearing the Canadian national championship
jersey in 1999 during the Women's Challenge stage race.
fullname = Linda Jackson
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dateofbirth = birth date and age|1958|11|13
country = CAN
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discipline = Road
role = Rider
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proyears = 1999
proteams = Timex
majorwins = flagicon|CAN National Champion
updated = 3 September 2008

Linda Jackson (born November 13, 1958 in Nepean, Ontario) is best known as a former Canadian professional bicycle road racer. She is now a coach [ http://www.stanford.edu/~malika1/coach.html ] , having previous experience as an investment banker. Jackson won the bronze medal at the 1996 World Road Racing Championships. The six-time Canadian national champion (three for road race and three for time trials) competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and several Pan American Games and won silver medals the 1994 road race and 1998 time trial at the Commonwealth Games.

At the 1994 Redlands Bicycle Classic, the Ontario native placed third overall and won Stage 1, a 48-mile road race. In 1997 she reached the podium again, this time in second overall and won Stage 2, a 13-mile individual time trial.

In 1997, she captured overall win at the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin and finished second at the Women's Challenge and Giro d'Italia Femminile, and placed third at the Tour de France Feminin. Jackson received the "maglia arancia" (orange jersey) as the best foreigner of that year's Giro d'Italia Femminile. The following year, Jackson won the 1998 Women's Challenge and repeated her second place finish at the Giro d'Italia Femminile.

In 2000, she was a chief financial officer of a San Francisco internet start-up company. [ [http://www.caaws.ca/e/article.cfm?id=137 Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity- CAAWS ] ]

Currently, Jackson serves as the Director Sportif of the "Team TIBCO" elite women's cycling team.

External links

* [http://www.caaws.ca/e/article.cfm?id=137 Linda Jackson retires from cycling]
* [http://www.teamtibco.com/manager.html Team TIBCO]
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References

* http://www.stanford.edu/~malika1/coach.html
* http://www.caaws.ca/e/article.cfm?id=137