Australian cyclist

Annette Edmondson (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian former cyclist who competed on the track with Cycling Australia's High Performance Unit (HPU). She also competed on the road for the Wiggle High5 team between 2015 and 2018.

Her greatest successes were the three gold medals she won at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the omnium and team pursuit, a compe*ion in which she also secured further silver medals in the omnium (2012) and team pursuit (2012 and 2013). Edmondson also competed in the London 2012 Olympics, securing a bronze medal for Australia in the women's Omnium and finishing in fourth place in the Team pursuit. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games she claimed a silver in the individual pursuit and a gold in the scratch race, her first gold medal at an international level and her first Commonwealth *le. In addition, she has competed at the National Track Championships with gold medal results at an elite level since 2012 in multiple disciplines.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
• 3 Personal life
• 4 Major results
  • 4.1 Track
  • 4.2 Road
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Early life

Edmondson was born in Adelaide, but due to her parents' careers at Royal Dutch Shell, she spent the early part of her childhood living in Malaysia, Oman and the Netherlands. However, when she was six, the family returned to her father's native land of Australia.

She attended the Victor Harbor Primary School, south of Adelaide, South Australia, later moving to St John's Grammar School in the Adelaide Hills where she took up numerous pursuits, including soccer and athletics.

Career

When she was 13, the South Australian Sports Ins*ute visited her school and she was identified as having the physical attributes to have a potential career in cycling. After a year in the Talent Search Program, her first major win came at the 2006 National Junior Track Championships where she won two bronze medals in the Under 17 500m Time Trial and Sprint. From that point, she began to specialise in sprint cycling and as a junior won sprint events at a National and Oceania level.

In 2010, she took part in her first elite level National Championships finishing with silvers in the Team sprint, Keirin and 500m TT as well as a bronze in the Individual sprint.

However, Edmondson began to lose interest in the sport and took a break from cycling. In spite of her doubt, she returned to training just four months later, but she wanted a change and therefore made the switch from sprint to endurance cycling. Eight months later, she had successfully made the switch by becoming the Australian Omnium and Scratch Race champion.

Her first World Championships came in 2012 at the UCI World Championships in Melbourne in which she achieved silver in both the Omnium and Team Pursuit. These results helped her secure a place in the 2012 Australian Olympic Team.

In London, she took part in two events of the Olympic Track Cycling Schedule. In the Team Pursuit, the Australian squad secured 4th place, missing out on the bronze medal. It was her effort and performance in the 6 events of the Omnium which resulted in her claiming the bronze medal.

After the Olympics, in 2013, she signed a professional road contract with Orica-AIS, in her first season with the team, she secured a major victory taking 1st overall in the Tour of Chongming Island. Her and teammates took 3rd in the 2013 World Road Race Championships TTT in Florence, Italy.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Edmondson claimed a silver in the Individual Pursuit along with fellow athlete Amy Cure who took a bronze in the event. On the 3rd day of compe*ion (26 July 2014), Edmondson took part in the 10:km Scratch Race, where she raced to victory taking her 1st Commonwealth Games Gold Medal and again fellow athlete Amy Cure also succeeded coming out with a silver medal from the event.

On 22 October 2014, Wiggle–Honda announced that Edmondson had signed with the team for the 2015 season, where she remained until the team disbanded at the end of the 2018 season.

Edmondson qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She was a member of the Women's pursuit team. The team consisting of Ashlee Ankudinoff, Georgia Baker, Annette Edmondson, Alexandra Manly, Maeve Plouffe finished fifth.

Edmondson retired from compe*ion after the conclusion of the 2021 UCI Track Champions League in December of that year, having finished third in the women's endurance standings.

Personal life

Edmondson has also had an interest in charity work from a young age. Her first recognition of her work came in 2007 in which she became "Make Indigenous Poverty History Youth Amb*ador for SA". Since then, she has made personal visits to deprived areas, such as parts of Indonesia to give up her time as volunteer. She is fluent in Indonesian.

Edmondson has two brothers; her younger brother Alex Edmondson is also a professional cyclist.

Major results

Track

2007Oceania Junior Track Championships1st Sprint1st Team sprint (with Chloe Hosking)1st Scratch3rd Keirin, Oceania Track Championships2008National Junior Track Championships1st 500m time trial1st Sprint1st Keirin2nd Sprint, UCI Junior Track World Championships3rd Team sprint, National Track Championships2009National Junior Track Championships1st Sprint1st Scratch1st 500m time trial2nd Keirin3rd Keirin, UCI Junior Track World Championships2010National Track Championships2nd Team sprint2nd Keirin2nd 500m time trial3rd Sprint2011National Track Championships1st Omnium1st Scratch3rd Team pursuit2012National Track Championships1st Individual pursuit1st Points race2nd ScratchUCI Track Cycling World Championships2nd Omnium2nd Team pursuit3rd Omnium, Olympic Games2013Oceania Track Championships1st Points race1st Omnium2nd Team pursuitNational Track Championships1st Omnium1st Individual pursuit1st Points race1st Scratch1st 6 Giorni delle Rose Omnium1st Invercargill Scratch raceUCI Track Cycling World Championships2nd Team pursuit3rd Individual pursuit3rd Omnium2014Oceania Track Championships1st Individual pursuit1st OmniumCommonwealth Games1st Scratch2nd Individual pursuitNational Track Championships1st Scratch1st Points race1st Omnium1st Madison (with Jessica Mundy)2nd Individual pursuit3rd Team pursuitUCI Track Cycling World Championships3rd Omnium3rd Team pursuit2015UCI Track Cycling World Championships1st Omnium1st Team pursuit1st Omnium, Oceania Track Championships1st Omnium, South Australian Grand Prix1st Omnium, Super Drome Cup1st Madison, Austral (with Julie Leth)National Track Championships1st Madison (with Jessica Mundy)2nd Individual pursuit2nd Team pursuit2016Oceania Track Championships1st Team pursuit (with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Amy Cure and Alexandra Manly)1st Madison (with Amy Cure)National Track Championships1st Scratch1st Points race2018Commonwealth Games1st Team pursuit (with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Amy Cure and Alexandra Manly)3rd Individual pursuitNational Track Championships1st Team pursuit (with Breanna Hargrave, Alexandra Manly, and Maeve Plouffe)2nd Madison (with Alexandra Manly)20191st Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships20213rd Endurance cl*ification UCI Track Cycling Champions League

Road

20118th Road race, Oceania Road Championships2012National Road Championships2nd Under-23 criterium3rd Criterium8th Road race, Oceania Road Championships20131st Overall Tour of Chongming Island1st Stage 31st Stage 4 Belgium Tour3rd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships9th Dwars door de Westhoek20141st Points cl*ification Adelaide Tour2nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships20151st Sprints cl*ification Women's Tour Down Under4th RideLondon Grand Prix7th Overall BeNe Ladies Tour20161st Stage 2 Women's Tour Down Under20171st Pajot Hills Cl*ic3rd Overall BeNe Ladies Tour1st Prologue10th Overall Tour of Chongming Island20181st Towards Zero Race Melbourne1st Stage 1 Women's Tour Down Under20194th Dwars door de Westhoek2021National Road Championships1st Criterium

References

External links

• Official website
• Annette Edmondson at Cycling Archives
• Annette Edmondson at ProCyclingStats
• Annette Edmondson at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)