Alison Shanks

Alison Shanks

Alison Shanks (2011)
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Date of birth	December 13, 1982
nation	New Zealand
discipline	Railway: endurance, short term / road
Last updated: October 8, 2016

Alison "Ali" Shanks (born December 13, 1982 in Dunedin ) is a former New Zealand cyclist with successes on track and road .

In 2005, Alison Shanks graduated from the University of Otago with a degree in Nutrition and Marketing . Then she started competitive cycling.

Shanks celebrated first successes in 2005 at the Oceania Games with a third place in the road race and a second in the single pursuit . This was followed by national titles and podium places in track world cups .

At the UCI Track World Championships in 2009 in Pruszków , Poland , Alison Shanks was world champion in the singles and runner-up in the team pursuit (with Lauren Ellis and Jaime Nielsen ). At the Track Cycling World Cup 2009/2010 she took second place in the overall ranking of the single pursuit behind the Brit Wendy Houvenaghel , who she had defeated in the 2009 World Cup final. In 2010 she won the gold medal in the individual pursuit at the Commonwealth Games .

In 2012 Shanks was again world champion in the singles pursuit. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , she finished together with Ellis and Nielsen. Fifth place in the team pursuit.

In June 2013, Alison Shanks was operated on on the hip and was subsequently unable to regain her old shape. At the beginning of 2014 she officially ended her cycling career.

Honors

In 2019 Alison Shanks, meanwhile a member of the Board of Directors of Cycling New Zealand , was honored with a Cycling Award ("Service to Cycling)" for her services to cycling as an athlete and official .

successes

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2005

• Oceania Games - one's pursuit

2009

• World Champion - Single Pursuit
• World Championship Team Pursuit (with Jamie Nielsen and Lauren Ellis )
• World Cup in Beijing - Individual Pursuit , Team Pursuit (with Kaytee Boyd and Lauren Ellis )
• World Cup in Melbourne - Team Pursuit (with Kaytee Boyd and Lauren Ellis )

2010

• World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Rushlee Buchanan and Lauren Ellis )
• Commonwealth Games 2010 - one's pursuit
• World Cup in Beijing - Individual Pursuit
• World Cup in Cali - Single Pursuit, Team Pursuit (with Rushlee Buchanan and Lauren Ellis )
• New Zealand Champion - 500m Time Trial, Team Sprint (with Katie Schofield )

2011

• World Championship - Individual Pursuit
• World Championship Team Pursuit (with Kaytee Boyd and Lauren Ellis )

2012

• World Champion - Single Pursuit

Street

2005

• Oceania Games - Individual Time Trial

2006

• New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial

2007

• New Zealand Champion - Road Race, Individual Time Trial

Web links

• Alison Shanks in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Alison Shanks in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Alison Shanks website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shanks' pursuit at an end. In: stuff.co.nz. February 1, 2014, accessed October 8, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Development work rewarded at cycling annual awards evening. In: Cycling New Zealand. May 27, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019 .