Diana Žiliūtė
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| Full name | Diana Žiliūtė | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 May 1976 Rietavas, Lithuanian SSR |
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Diana Žiliūtė (Template:IPA-lt; born 28 May 1976 in Rietavas) is a Lithuanian racing cyclist who dominated women's road racing in the late 1990s.
She made her debut in the pro cycling ranks in the mid-1990s after winning the 1994 World Junior Road Race Championship. She rose to the top of women's cycling in 1998 when she won two World Road Cup races, the overall World Road Cup title, and capped the season by winning the World Road Race Championships and leading the UCI Women's Road World Rankings.
The following year (1999), she further demonstrated her all around prowess by winning the Grande Boucle, one of the hardest stage races in women's cycle racing history. This was followed in 2000 by a bronze medal at the Summer Olympics.
For her achievements, Žiliūtė was awarded the Order of Gediminas, a Lithuanian state honor.
Major results
- Prior to 1998
- 1994 World Junior Road Race Champion
- 1994 World Team Time Trial Championships - 2nd place
- 1996 European U-23 Time Trials - 2nd place
- 1996 Giro d'Italia - stage victory
- 1997 European U-23 Time Trial Champion
- 1997 Tour de Vendeè - stage victory
- 1997 Giro d'Italia Femminile- stage victory
- 1998
- UCI Road Rankings 1st place
- World Road Cup (Overall Points) - 1st place
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World Road Race Championships - 1st place - World Time Trial Championships - 4th place
- GP Tell (Swi) World Cup - 4th place
- Beneden-Maas (Ned) World Cup - 1st place
- Trophee International (Fra) World Cup - 3rd place
- Women's Challenge - 3rd place GC, Points jersey, 1 stage victory
- Montreal (Can) World Cup - 1st place
- Liberty Classic (USA) World Cup - 2nd place
- 1999
- UCI Road Ranking - 3rd place
- World Road Race Championships - 3rd place
- World Time Trial Championships - 8th place
Grande Boucle (cat. 1) - 1st place GC, 3 stage victories- Thuringen Rundfahrt - 2nd place GC, 2 stage victories
- Giro del Trentino - 2 stage victories
- 2000
- UCI Road Rankings 1st place
- World Road Cup (Overall Points) - 1st place
Olympic Games Road Race - 3rd place (Bronze Medal)- Embrach (Swi) World Cup - 4th place
- Giro d'Italia Femminile (cat. 1) - stage victory
- Women's Challenge (cat. 1) - 2nd place GC, Points jersey, 2 stage victories
- Liberty Classic (USA) World Cup - 2nd place
- Montreal (Can) World Cup - 3rd place
- Vuelta Navarra Feminas (cat. 2) - 1st place GC, Points, QOM jerseys, 4 stage victories
- La Flèche Wallonne (Bel) World Cup - 4th place
- Primavera Rosa (Ita) World Cup - 1st place
- 2001
- UCI Road Ranking - 16th place
- World Road Race Championships - 8th place
- Giro della Toscana (cat. 1) - 1st place GC
- Holland Ladies Tour (cat. 2) - 2nd place GC
- Giro d'Italia Femminile (cat. 1) - 2nd place GC, 1 stage victory
- 2002
- Giro d'Italia Femminile - 3rd place GC
- Women's Challenge (cat. 1) - Sprints jersey, 1 stage victory
- Publi-Tour Midi Pyrenees (cat. 2) - 1 stage victory
- Primavera Rosa (Ita) World Cup - 2nd place
- GP Citta di Castemaso (cat. 2) - 1st place
- 2003
- UCI Road Ranking - 13th place
- Rotterdam Tour (Ned) World Cup- 2nd place
- Holland Ladies Tour (cat. 1) - Points, Sprints jersey, 3 stage victories
- Rund um die Nurnberger (Ger) World Cup - 1st place
- Le Tour du Montreal (cat. 1) - 4th place, Points jersey, 1 stage victory
- GP Liberazione (cat. 2) - 1st place
- 2004
- Giro d'Italia Femminile (cat. 1) - 7th place GC, 2 stage victories
Lithuania National Road Race Champion- Lithuania National Time Trial Champion
- 2005
- (did not race for most of the 2005 season)
- World Road Race Championships - 11th place
- 2006
- Lithuania National Road Race Champion
Photo gallery
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Time Trial
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Bike work
External links
- Diana Žiliūtė at Cycling ArchivesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Diana Ziliute's web site (Italian)
- Diana Ziliute's team (Italian)
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| Preceded by | Best Lithuanian sportsman of the Year 1998 |
Succeeded by Edita Pučinskaitė |
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World Cup Overall Points Champion 1998 |
Succeeded by Anna Wilson |
| Preceded by | World Cup Overall Points Champion 2000 |
Succeeded by Anna Millward (nee Wilson) |
 European Road Champions – Women's time trial (U23) |
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Lithuanian female cyclists
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Lithuania
- Olympic bronze medalists for Lithuania
- UCI Road World Champions (women)
- People from Rietavas
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Lithuanian Sportsperson of the Year winners
