Marie-Rose Gaillard

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| fullname = Marie-Rose Gaillard

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| birth_place = Liège, Belgium

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| majorwins = One-day races and Classics

:World Road Race Championship (1962)

:National Road Race Championships (1966)

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Marie-Rose Gaillard (19 August 1944 – 18 June 2022){{Cite web|url=https://lameuse-verviers.sudinfo.be/962288/article/2022-06-18/lex-championne-du-monde-cycliste-sur-route-marie-rose-gaillard-est-decedee|title=L’ex-championne du monde cycliste sur route Marie-Rose Gaillard est décédée|date=18 June 2022|website=lameuse-verviers.sudinfo.be|language=FR|accessdate=11 August 2022}} was a Belgian racing cyclist. She won the Belgian national road race title in 1966.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=28388 |title=Marie-Rose Gaillard |accessdate=2 May 2014 |work=Cycling Archives}}

Biography

Marie-Rose Gaillard began cycling in 1960, after being encouraged to do so by a cycle dealer who saw her riding the bike she had borrowed from her brother. She signed up for the Royal Dolhain Vélo and competed in her first race in Visé. The following year, she was selected for the Belgian team for her first world championship, at Douglas.

She was world road champion in 1962 at the age of 18, in Salò ahead of two of her compatriots Yvonne Reynders, title holder, and Marie-Thérèse Naessens. She competed in four other world championships. Gaillard was tenth in 1963, fourth in 1964, nineteenth in 1965, eighth in 19663. In 1966, she won the Belgian road championship.

Marie-Rose Gaillard co-founded the Ourthe-Amblève Vélo club, of which her nephew Philippe Gilbert was a member..{{Cite web |date=24 November 2010 |title=Un sacré bout de femme |url=https://www.dhnet.be/archives-journal/2010/11/25/un-sacre-bout-de-femme-IEROCPZHHRCD7ORSEYHQK33JHQ/ |website=dhnet.be |language=fr}}