Mary McConneloug is a female racing cyclist from the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, specializing in competitive mountain biking

Mountain bike

A mountain bike or mountain bicycle is a bicycle created for off-road cycling. This activity includes traversing of rocks and washouts, and steep declines,...

. She is married to Mike Broderick, an alternate on the 2008 US Olympic mountain biking team.

McConneloug twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics (2004 and 2008), where she finished in 9th and 7th place in the final rankings of the women's cross-country race. In 2003 she claimed the silver medal at the Pan American Games

2003 Pan American Games

The 14th Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 1 to 17 August 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when this country had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America....

 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, behind Argentina's Jimena Florit

Jimena Florit

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 (gold) but before Chile's Francisca Campos

Francisca Campos

Francisca Linoska Campos Salas is a female cyclist from Chile, specializing in competitive mountain biking....

(bronze).