Diana Žiliūtė

Personal information

Full name

Diana Žiliūtė

Born

28 May 1976
Rietavas, Lithuanian SSR

Team information

Discipline

Road and track

Role

Rider

Medal record

Road bicycle racing
Competitor for Lithuania
Olympic Games
	2000 Sydney	Road Race
World Championships
	1998	Road race
	1994	Team time trial
	1999	Road race

Diana Žiliūtė (Lithuanian pronunciation: [dʲɪjɛˈnɐ ʒɪˈlʲuːtʲeː]; born 28 May 1976 in Rietavas) is a Lithuanian racing cyclist who dominated women's road racing in the late 1990s.

She made her debut in the pro cycling ranks in the mid-1990s after winning the 1994 World Junior Road Race Championship. She rose to the top of women's cycling in 1998 when she won two World Road Cup races, the overall World Road Cup title, and capped the season by winning the World Road Race Championships and leading the UCI Women's Road World Rankings.

The following year (1999), she further demonstrated her all around prowess by winning the Grande Boucle, one of the hardest stage races in women's cycle racing history. This was followed in 2000 by a bronze medal at the Summer Olympics.

For her achievements, Žiliūtė was awarded the Order of Gediminas, a Lithuanian state honor.

Major results

Prior to 1998: 1994 World Junior Road Race Champion; 1994 World Team Time Trial Championships - 2nd place; 1996 European U-23 Time Trials - 2nd place; 1996 Giro d'Italia - stage victory; 1997 European U-23 Time Trial Champion; 1997 Tour de Vendeè - stage victory; 1997 Giro d'Italia Femminile- stage victory
1998: UCI Road Rankings 1st place; World Road Cup (Overall Points) - 1st place; World Road Race Championships - 1st place; World Time Trial Championships - 4th place; GP Tell (Swi) World Cup - 4th place; Beneden-Maas (Ned) World Cup - 1st place; Trophee International (Fra) World Cup - 3rd place; Women's Challenge - 3rd place GC, Points jersey, 1 stage victory; Montreal (Can) World Cup - 1st place; Liberty Classic (USA) World Cup - 2nd place
1999: UCI Road Ranking - 3rd place; World Road Race Championships - 3rd place; World Time Trial Championships - 8th place; Grande Boucle (cat. 1) - 1st place GC, 3 stage victories; Thuringen Rundfahrt - 2nd place GC, 2 stage victories; Giro del Trentino - 2 stage victories
2000: UCI Road Rankings 1st place; World Road Cup (Overall Points) - 1st place; Olympic Games Road Race - 3rd place (Bronze Medal); Embrach (Swi) World Cup - 4th place; Giro d'Italia Femminile (cat. 1) - stage victory; Women's Challenge (cat. 1) - 2nd place GC, Points jersey, 2 stage victories; Liberty Classic (USA) World Cup - 2nd place; Montreal (Can) World Cup - 3rd place; Vuelta Navarra Feminas (cat. 2) - 1st place GC, Points, QOM jerseys, 4 stage victories; La Flèche Wallonne (Bel) World Cup - 4th place; Primavera Rosa (Ita) World Cup - 1st place
2001: UCI Road Ranking - 16th place; World Road Race Championships - 8th place; Giro della Toscana (cat. 1) - 1st place GC; Holland Ladies Tour (cat. 2) - 2nd place GC; Giro d'Italia Femminile (cat. 1) - 2nd place GC, 1 stage victory
2002: Giro d'Italia Femminile - 3rd place GC; Women's Challenge (cat. 1) - Sprints jersey, 1 stage victory; Publi-Tour Midi Pyrenees (cat. 2) - 1 stage victory; Primavera Rosa (Ita) World Cup - 2nd place; GP Citta di Castemaso (cat. 2) - 1st place
2003: UCI Road Ranking - 13th place; Rotterdam Tour (Ned) World Cup- 2nd place; Holland Ladies Tour (cat. 1) - Points, Sprints jersey, 3 stage victories; Rund um die Nurnberger (Ger) World Cup - 1st place; Le Tour du Montreal (cat. 1) - 4th place, Points jersey, 1 stage victory; GP Liberazione (cat. 2) - 1st place
2004: Giro d'Italia Femminile (cat. 1) - 7th place GC, 2 stage victories; Lithuania National Road Race Champion; Lithuania National Time Trial Champion
2005: (did not race for most of the 2005 season); World Road Race Championships - 11th place
2006: Lithuania National Road Race Champion

Photo gallery

Time Trial
Bike work

External links

Diana Žiliūtė profile at Cycling Archives
Diana Ziliute's web site (Italian)
Diana Ziliute's team (Italian)

Awards
Preceded by Raimondas Šiugždinis	Best Lithuanian sportsman of the Year 1998	Succeeded by Edita Pučinskaitė
Sporting positions
Preceded by None	World Cup Overall Points Champion 1998	Succeeded by Anna Wilson
Preceded by Anna Wilson	World Cup Overall Points Champion 2000	Succeeded by Anna Millward (nee Wilson)

European Road Champions – Women's time trial (U23)

Lithuanian Sportsperson of the Year

Algirdas Šocikas 1956 Jonas Pipynė 1957 Birutė Kalėdienė 1958 Adolfas Varanauskas 1959 1963 Antanas Bagdonavičius, Zigmas Jukna 1960 1961 Antanas Vaupšas 1962 Ričardas Tamulis 1964 Modestas Paulauskas 1965 1966 1967 1969 1970 1971 1972 Danas Pozniakas 1968 Vladas Česiūnas 1973 1974 Česlovas Jazerskis 1975 Angelė Rupšienė 1976 Vilhelmina Bardauskienė 1977 1978 Lina Kačiušytė 1979 1980 Robertas Žulpa 1981 Vladas Turla 1982 Ana Ambrazienė 1983 Arvydas Sabonis 1984 1985 1986 1996 Šarūnas Marčiulionis 1987 1989 1990 1991 Gintautas Umaras 1988 Romas Ubartas 1992 Vitalijus Karpačiauskas 1993 Raimundas Mažuolis 1994 Remigijus Lupeikis 1995 Raimondas Šiugždinis 1997 Diana Žiliūtė 1998 Edita Pučinskaitė 1999 Virgilijus Alekna 2000 2004 2005 2006 Rasa Polikevičiūtė 2001 Raimondas Rumšas 2002 Šarūnas Jasikevičius 2003 Ramūnas Šiškauskas 2007 Edvinas Krungolcas 2008 Simona Krupeckaitė 2009 2010 Laura Asadauskaitė 2011 Rūta Meilutytė 2012 2013

Men	Jevgenij Shuklin 2014

Women	Rūta Meilutytė 2014

Men's Team	Ritter/Maščinskas 2014

Women's Team	Valčiukaitė/Vištartaitė 2014

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