Alexandra Manly

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Alexandra Manly Road cycling
Alexandra Manly on the Women's Tour (2017)
Alexandra Manly on the Women's Tour (2017)
To person
Date of birth February 28, 1996
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
To the team
Current team Mitchelton Scott
function driver
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2019 World Champion - team pursuit, points race
2017 silver - team pursuit
2017 bronze - two-man team driving
Last updated: August 29, 2018

Alexandra Manly (born February 28, 1996 in Kalgoorlie ) is an Australian cyclist.

Athletic career

Alexandra Manly was very athletic from childhood and tried various sports such as basketball , cross-country running , hockey , tennis , javelin and steeplechase . After her family moved to Adelaide , she came into contact with cycling. At first she tried to practice the two sports side by side - for example, she won the bronze medal in basketball in the U14 national championships - but then decided to focus on cycling. In 2012 she won her national title in her age group.

In the following year Manly won bronze in the individual time trial of the junior women at the road world championships and also twice silver in time trials and road races at the Oceania championships. In 2014 she was two-time junior world champion on the track , in the singles and with Macey Stewart , Danielle McKinnirrey and Josie Talbot in the team pursuit .

In 2015 Alexandra Manly got a contract with Team Orica Scott . In the same year she won the team pursuit at the Track World Cup in Cali with Macey Stewart , Elissa Wundersitz and Lauren Perry : "It was one of the best moments of my life sharing that win with the girls," she later said. In 2017 she became vice world champion in the team pursuit with Rebecca Wiasak , Ashlee Ankudinoff and Amy Cure and together with Cure she won bronze in the two-man team event, which was held for the first time for women at a World Cup . In the same year she was with Ankudinoff, Annette Edmondson and Cure Oceania champion in team pursuits and won with Cure the run of the Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles in a two-man team.

In 2018, the Australian four-man team won the team pursuit at the Commonwealth Games with Manly . At the UCI Track World Championships 2019 in Pruszków , Poland , she was two-time world champion, in points and in team pursuit (with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Annette Edmondson, Amy Cure and Georgia Baker ).

successes

train

2014
2015
2017
2018
2019
2019/20
  • OceaniaChampionJersey.pngOceania Champion - two-man team driving (with Amy Cure )

Street

2013
  • bronze Junior World Championship - Individual Time Trial
  • silver Junior Oceania Championship - road racing, individual time trial
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Junior Champion - Individual Time Trial
2014
  • gold Junior Oceania Championship - Individual Time Trial
2017
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Champion (U23) - Road Race, Individual Time Trial
2018
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Champion (U23) - Road Race, Individual Time Trial

Teams

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Manly  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b ABOUT. In: alexandramanly.com. July 7, 2017, accessed August 20, 2017 .