American cyclist

Shelley Olds (born September 30, 1980) is an American former professional racing cyclist.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Major results
• 3 References
• 4 Further reading
• 5 External links

Career

Olds was born and raised in Groton, M*achusetts. She studied health and human performance at Roanoke College in Virginia, and was captain of their women's soccer team. A star on the soccer pitch, Olds was a two-time NSCAA All-South Region selection, four-time All-ODAC selection and the 2002 ODAC Player of the Year. She was inducted into the Roanoke Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016.

After college, she moved to California and was introduced to cycling by Rob Evans, whom she later married. She started racing locally on the road, quickly moving up in the ranks and winning the Road Cycling State Championships. She then joined Peanut Butter & Co.TWENTY12 team, won the Track National Scratch Race Championships in 2008 and 2009 and then won the National Criterium Championships in 2010 and 2011. She began racing internationally soon after and earned podium results in the Tour of New Zealand, Trofeo Costa Etrusca Iii in Italy, Drentse 8 Van Dwingeloo in Netherlands, as well as Liberty Cl*ic road race in Philadelphia. She registered with the UCI under her married name of Shelley Evans for the 2010 season, but reverted to her maiden name in later seasons.

In 2012, Olds signed with Dutch team AA Drink–leontien.nl and won the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup to earn a qualifying spot on the US National team for the Road race at the London Olympics. At the Olympics, she was one of the four riders in the winning breakaway group that split from the peloton with 50 kilometres (31 miles) to go, but suffered a puncture 29 kilometres (18 miles) later. After a tire change, she caught back up to the peloton and finished in 7th place.

Olds carried on with her professional racing career with multiple UCI Women teams, and continued her ascent to become one of the top sprinters in the world. She took multiple Sprinters' jerseys in races across Italy, Norway and China. Back in North America, she won the Winston-Salem Cycling Cl*ic in North Carolina, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau in Quebec, Canada, and the White Spot/Delta road race in British Columbia, Canada.

In 2015, while riding for the Italian Alé–Cipollini team, Olds won the inaugural edition of La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta in a bunch sprint beating out top sprinters in the world at the time. She moved back to the United States in 2016 to join Cylance Pro Cycling team and started the year with a 2nd place finish in the Women's Down Under Tour in Australia, but had to retire in March of that year after crashing and suffering from head injuries in back to back races in Europe.

Major results

Sources:

20081st Scratch, National Track Championships8th Liberty Cl*ic20091st Scratch, National Track Championships2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics2nd Points race, Melbourne3rd Scratch, Manchester3rd Points race, 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cl*ics, Copenhagen3rd Liberty Cl*ic20101st Road race, Pan American Road Championships1st National Criterium Championships1st Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand1st Stages 1, 2, 5 & 61st Stage 10 Giro d'Italia Femminile2nd Liberty Cl*ic20111st GP Costa Etrusca2nd Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo2nd Liberty Cl*ic5th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio6th Grand Prix de Dottignies2012Tour of Chongming Island1st World Cup4th Overall Stage race1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia Femminile2nd 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg4th Road race, Pan American Road Championships4th Open de Suède Vårgårda7th Road race, Summer Olympics8th Holland Hills Cl*ic20131st Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau2nd Le Samyn des Dames2nd Omloop van het Hageland4th Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo4th Philadelphia Cycling Cl*ic5th Overall Belgium Tour5th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini1st Points cl*ification5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad5th Cholet Pays de Loire Dames6th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup7th Chrono Gatineau8th Overall Tour of Chongming Island20141st Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile — Memorial Michela Fanini1st Points cl*ification1st Prologue & Stage 11st GP Comune di Cornaredo1st Winston-Salem Cycling Cl*ic2nd Overall Tour of Chongming Island2nd Novilon EDR Cup2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies3rd Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs3rd Ronde van Drenthe World Cup5th La Course by Le Tour de France6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships6th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup8th Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica1st Stages 3 & 510th Spark*en Giro20151st White Spot / Delta Road Race1st La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta2nd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway1st Points cl*ification1st Stage 22nd EPZ Omloop van BorseleTour of Chongming Island4th World Cup5th Overall Stage race4th Philadelphia Cycling Cl*ic7th Dwars door de Westhoek9th Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda20162nd Overall Women's Tour Down Under4th Omloop van het Hageland5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad6th Ronde van Drenthe

References

Further reading

• "Shelley Olds". AA Drink–leontien.nl. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
• Hazen, Bart (January 21, 2011). "Interview: Shelley Olds". Daily Peloton.
• "Interview: Shelley Olds". Daily Peloton. February 26, 2009. Archived from the original on April 20, 2013.

External links

• Official website
• Shelley Olds at Cycling Archives
• Shelley Olds at ProCyclingStats
• Shelley Olds at CyclingDatabase.com (archived)
• Shelley Olds at Cycling Quotient
• Shelley Olds at CycleBase
• Shelley Olds at Olympics.com
• Shelley Olds at Olympedia
• Shelley Olds at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee