Katie Mactier
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| Full name | Katie Mactier | ||||||||||||
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23 March 1975 Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track & Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
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| 2002 | SC Michela Fanini Record Rox | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | Saturn (V) | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | Jayco | ||||||||||||
| 2 Jun 2005– | T-Mobile | ||||||||||||
| 2007– | ValueAct Capital | ||||||||||||
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 National Champion | |||||||||||||
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Katie Mactier (born 23 March 1975 in Melbourne) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She began racing in 1999 at 24 and was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[1] She was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne.[2]
She is a member of the Carnegie Caulfield Cycling Club. She lives in Girona, Spain, with her husband, Greg Henderson, and their daughter.
She won the pursuit at the 2005 world championship, the 2005 World Cup and the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. At the Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics Mactier broke the world record in the heats in the pursuit, but Sarah Ulmer set a new record in the final, relegating her to a silver medal.
In 2001 Mactier won in the national road championship. In 2002/2003 she was the Australian pursuit champion, and second in the 2003 world pursuit championship. She was 2003 and 2005 Australian Female Track Cyclist of the Year.
She was a favourite in the pursuit at the 2008 Olympics but ended seventh overall after being defeated by eventual winner Rebecca Romero of Great Britain in her qualifying round.
Palmarès
- 2001
- 1st
Australian National Road Race Championships - 1st Valdengo-Biella
- 1st Sprint Classification Skilled Bay Series
- 2003
- 1st Trofeo Guareschi
- 1st Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix
- 1st Overall Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
- 1st Stage 3 Geelong Women's Tour
- 1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
- 2nd Pursuit, World Championships
- 2nd Road World Cup Geelong
- 2nd Overall Geelong Women's Tour
- 2nd T-Mobile International
- 2004
- 1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
- 1st Stage 1 Geelong Tour
- 2nd Olympic Individual Pursuit (silver medal)
- 2nd Pursuit, World Championships
- 2nd Overall Geelong Tour
- 1st Pursuit, World Cup, Los Angeles
- 2005
- 1st Pursuit, World Championships
- 1st Pursuit, World Cup
- 1st Pursuit Oceania Titles
- 2006
- 1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
- 1st Jayco Bay Cycling Classic AUS
- 1st
Individual Pursuit, 2006 Commonwealth Games 3:30.290; - 1st Pursuit, World Cup, Sydney
- 2007
- 3rd Pursuit, World Championships
- 1st Australian National Road Race Championships
- 1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
- 1st Pursuit, World Cup, Sydney
- 1st Pursuit, World Cup, Beijing
- 1st Oceania Individual Pursuit
- 1st Stage 1 Mount Hood Cycling Classic
- 1st Stage 2 Mount Hood Cycling Classic
- 2nd Stage 6 Mount Hood Cycling Classic
- 2nd Stage 3 Nature Valley Grand Prix
- 3rd Stage 4 Mount Hood Cycling Classic
- 2008
- 1st Prelude, 2008 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin (cat. 1)
- 4th Individual pursuit, 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Sources
- ↑ AIS Athletes at the Olympics
- ↑ "Wesley Olympians". Wesley College. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
External links
- Australian Cycling Federation Profile
- Cyclingnews.com 2007 Australian Open Road Championships
- Katie Mactier's website
- 2008 Olympic Results