Olivia Dillon Explained
Olivia Dillon |
Birth Date: | 4 May 1973 |
Currentteam: | Retired |
Discipline: | Road |
Role: | Rider |
Amateuryears1: | 2008–2009 |
Amateurteam1: | Touchstone Climbing |
Amateuryears2: | 2010 |
Amateurteam2: | Specialized D4W / Bicycle Haus Cycling Team |
Amateuryears3: | 2010–2011 |
Amateuryears4: | 2012–2013 |
Amateurteam4: | NOW and Novartis for MS |
Amateuryears5: | 2013 |
Amateurteam5: | Breast Cancer Care Cycling Team (guest) |
Amateuryears6: | 2013 |
Amateurteam6: | Keukens Redant (guest) |
Amateuryears7: | 2014 |
Amateuryears8: | 2014 |
Amateurteam8: | FCS Cycling Team (guest) |
Amateuryears9: | 2015 |
Amateurteam9: | Visit Dallas Cycling p/b Noise4Good[1] |
Olivia Dillon (born 4 May 1973) is an Irish former racing cyclist.[2] She competed in the 2012 UCI women's road race in Valkenburg aan de Geul and in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence.[3] [4]
Dillon won her national tour, Rás na mBan, on three occasions: 2010, 2011 and 2013. She is the only rider to win the event on more than one occasion.Dillon won the Irish National Time Trial Championships on four occasions: 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 and she took victory in the Irish National Road Race Championships in 2010, one of five medals she won in the event.
Personal life
Dillon is married to American professional cyclist Tayler Wiles.[5]
Major results
- 2008
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2009
National Road Championships
1st Time trial
2nd Road race
- 2010
National Road Championships
1st Time trial
1st Road race
1st Overall Rás na mBan
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 (ITT)
- 2011
1st Overall Rás na mBan
1st Stages 2, 3 & 4
- 2012
National Road Championships
1st Time trial
3rd Road race
2nd Overall Sea Otter Classic
7th Overall Tour of the Gila
- 2013
1st Overall Rás na mBan
1st Stage 3 (TTT)
7th Overall Tour of Elk Grove
- 2014
1st Stage 5 Rás na mBan
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
5th Overall Armed Forces Association Cycling Classic
9th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
9th Overall North Star Grand Prix
- 2015
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
10th Overall Tulsa ToughNotes and References
- Web site: Visit Dallas Cycling Debuts New Cycling Team. 9 February 2015 . . 19 April 2015.
- Web site: Olivia Dillon. Velocio.cc. Velocio, LLC. 19 June 2022. The former professional road racer is no stranger to hard efforts and resilience..
- Web site: Final Results / Résultats finaux: Road Race Women Elite / Course en ligne femmes élite. Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. 28 September 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131012063031/http://cycling.sportresult.com/results/cr/2013/WM/11RES00.pdf. 12 October 2013. dead.
- Web site: Olivia Dillon . 1 October 2013 . ProCyclingStats.
- Web site: Weislo . Laura . Tayler Wiles: I hope the men's peloton becomes more accepting of gay riders . Cyclingnews . 15 February 2021 . 5 June 2021.