Monday, October 17, 2005

#23: Juli Furtado

Juli Furtado
Third in a series of profiles of the Top 25 change agents in American cycling.
Juliana Furtado dominated mountain biking in the early 90s, winning the 1990 Cross-County Mountain World Champion, 1992 Downhill World Championship and three World Cup titles. In 1993, Furtado won 12 consecutive races to earn the World Cup and NORBA cross-country championships.

After participating on the U.S. Olympic Mountain Biking Team, the winningest mountain biker of all time retired in 1997 when she was diagnosed with Lupus.


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