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Anna Meares. Anna Maree Devenish Meares[1] OAM (born 21 September 1983) is an Australian retired track cyclist. She currently resides in Adelaide in South Australia where the Australian Institute of Sport 's Track Cycling program has its headquarters at the Adelaide Super-Drome. She has been the 500 metre track time trial world champion on four ...
Joanna Rowsell Shand. United States (USA) Sarah Hammer. Kelly Catlin. Chloé Dygert. Jennifer Valente. Canada (CAN) Allison Beveridge. Jasmin Glaesser.
Dame Sarah Joanne Storey, DBE (née Bailey; born 26 October 1977) is a British cyclist and swimmer, a multiple gold medallist in the Paralympic Games, and six times British (able-bodied) national track champion (2 × Pursuit, 1 × Points, 3 × Team Pursuit). Her total of 30 Paralympic medals, including 19 gold medals, makes her the most ...
Emma Finucane (/ fɪˈnuːkən / fin-OO-kən; born 22 December 2002) is a Welsh track cyclist. [4][5] She is the 2023 UCI world champion in women's individual sprint, the third Briton (after Victoria Pendleton and Becky James) and second Welsh woman (after James) to win the world title. In the Paris 2024 Olympics, she became the first British ...
Victoria Louise Pendleton, CBE, OLY (born 24 September 1980) is a British jockey and former track cyclist who specialised in the sprint, team sprint and keirin disciplines. She is a former Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth champion. With two Olympic gold medals and one silver, Pendleton is one of Great Britain's most successful female ...
It is unclear how this will impact female track cyclists, as track cycling is generally not an athlete's primary source of income (rather they are road cyclists selected for specific events by their national team). There is no talk of changing race distances to create gender parity in time for the 2020 Olympics. [23]
Laura Kenny. Dame Laura Rebecca Kenny, Lady Kenny, [3] DBE, OLY (née Trott; born 24 April 1992) is a former British professional track and road cyclist who specialised in track endurance events, specifically the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race, elimination race and madison disciplines. [4]
Team pursuit. 2005 Inzell. 5000 m. Clara Hughes, OC, OM, MSC OLY [3] (born September 27, 1972) is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater who has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the 1996 Summer Olympics and four medals (one gold, one silver, two bronze) over the course of three Winter Olympics. [4] Hughes is one ...