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Audrey McElmury (b. Audrey Phleger January 24 1943 Northampton Massachusetts USA died March 26 2013 Bozeman Montana USA) was the first American to win the world road cycling championship. She won in Brno Czechoslovakia in 1969 having fallen and remounted her bike. Hers was the United States’ first world cycling championship since Frank Kramer won the professional sprint race in 1912 and the first ever in road cycling.