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Dede Barry : biography

October 8, 1972 –

Deirdre ("Dede") Demet Barry (born October 8, 1972 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American female cycle racer, six times U.S. champion (4 senior titles, two junior). She has won two World Cup races, two World Championship medals, and, in 2004, the silver medal in the time trial in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She is married to fellow professionial cyclist Michael Barry. They live in Girona, Spain.

Palmarès

1989
1st Road race, UCI Road World Championships, Junior
1st United States National Time Trial Championships
1st United States National Road Race Championships
1991
1st United States National Team Time Trial Championships
1st Team Time Trial, Pan American Games
1993
2nd World Team Time Trial Championships
1st United States National Team Time Trial Championships
1st Team Time Trial U.S. Olympic Festival
1994
3rd World Team Time Trial Championships
1st Killington Stage Race
4th United States National Time Trial Championships
2nd United States National Road Race Championships
3rd Women’s Challenge

3 stage wins
5th Molenheike Stage Race

1 stage win
1995
3rd United States National Time Trial Championships
1st Time trial, Pan American Games
1st Women’s Challenge

3 stage victories
1st Thrift Drug Invitational
3rd Colorado Cyclist Classic
4th Tour de l’Aude

2 stage wins
2nd Epinal Stage Race
1st 89er Stage Race

1 stage win
1996
1st United States National Road Race Championships
2nd Redlands Bicycle Classic

1st Climber’s jersey
1997
1st Grand Prix Féminin du Canada

1st Points classification
2nd Stage 1

1st Stage 4
3rd Stage 3
Stage win Tour Cycliste Féminin
3rd Tour de ‘Toona

1st Prologue time tial
2nd Stage 2
3rd United States National Road Race Championships
2nd United States National Time Trial Championships
2nd Fresca International Classic

3 stage wins
4th Fresca Tour of America

3rd Fresca Invitational (Seattle)
1st Fresca Classic (Racine)
1st Fresca Classic (Schlitz Park)
1st Fresca Classic (Lake Front)
2nd Fresca Classic (Alpine Valley)
3rd Stage 6, Women’s Challenge (cat 1)
2nd Stage 8, Women’s Challenge (cat 1)
5th CoreStates Liberty Classic
2nd Conyers and Pearman Grand Prix

1st Road race
2nd Criterium
3rd Time trial
2nd 89er Stage Race

1st Stage 3 (criterium)
2nd Stage 2 (time trial)
3rd Prologue
2nd Stage 3, Street Skills Women’s Stage Race
2nd Stage 6, Street Skills Women’s Stage Race
Stage victory (criterium), Redlands Bicycle Classic
1998
4th Beneden-Maas (Ned) World Cup
7th Thüringen-Rundfahrt
1st Fitchburg-Longsjo Classic

2nd Stage 1 (Royal Plaza time trial, 12.9 miles)
2nd Stage 3 (road race)
1st United States National Criterium Championships
3rd United States National Road Race Championships
4th United States National Time Trial Championships
7th Liberty Classic (USA) World Cup
3rd Wilmington Classic

2nd Stage 1 (time trial, 8.6 miles), Enchanted Mountain Stage Race
1st Stage 3 (criterium), Enchanted Mountain Stage Race
3rd Tour of Willamette

1st Stage 2
3rd Stage 4
1st Tour de Snowy

2nd Stage 3 (Berridale to Cabramurra)
1st Sydney (Aus) World Cup
4th Street Skills Stage Race

1st Stage 5 (Hamilton to Hautapu road race)
2nd Stage 4 (Beaver Criterium), Redlands Bicycle Classic