Nicole Chomo

Nicole Denise Cooke (born 13 April 1983) is a Welsh former professional racing cyclist and Commonwealth, Olympic and world road race champion. She was the first British cyclist to win a Grand Tour, which she achieved at the Giro d'Italia Femminile in 2004. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Cooke became the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in cycling, and the first Welsh woman to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event.
Aged 16, Cooke became the youngest ever winner at the British National Road Championships in 1999, and later won four junior world titles. She began riding professionally in 2002, winning the road race at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and in 2003, secured the overall UCI Road World Cup title, the first Briton to do so. In 2004, she won the Giro d'Italia Femminile, and the following year, won a silver medal in the road race at the UCI Road World Championships. She claimed a bronze medal in the road race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and secured back-to-back Grande Boucle victories in 2006 and 2007. Cooke won the road race at both the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2008 UCI Road World Championships, becoming the first woman to achieve this double in the same year. Cooke retired from cycling on 14 January 2013 at the age of 29. She has been a critic of doping in sport, and has been a proponent for gender equality in cycling.

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