Amy Cure

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Amy Cure Road cycling
Amy Cure (2018)
Amy Cure (2018)
To person
Date of birth December 31, 1992
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Road / rail (endurance)
End of career 2020
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2015, 2019 World Champion - team pursuit
2014 World Champion - points race
Last updated: June 19, 2020

Amy Cure (born December 31, 1992 in Burnie , Tasmania ) is a former Australian cyclist who was active on track and road .

Athletic career

In 2009 Amy Cure became Junior World Champion in scratch in Moscow and junior champion in single pursuit at national level . In 2010 she won three Australian junior championship titles: in the individual time trial on the road, in the pursuit and in the points test on the track. At the Junior Road World Championships in the same year she was third in the individual time trial. In August 2010, Cure, together with Michaela Anderson and Isabella King, set a new junior world record in the team pursuit over 3000 meters at the Junior World Track Championships in Montichiari with 3: 26.808 minutes, which lasted two years.

From 2011 Cure started in the elite and reached several podium places at Australian championships. At the 2011 World Track Championships in Apeldoorn , she was fourth in the team pursuit with the Australian team, with Katherine Bates and Josephine Tomic . At the UCI Track World Championships in Minsk in 2013 , she was together with Annette Edmondson and Melissa Hoskins vice world champion in the team pursuit; in the single pursuit she won the bronze medal. In the same year she was also able to celebrate successes on the road, such as her victory in the Tour de Feminin - O cenu Českého Švýcarska .

In 2015 Amy Cure became world champion in team pursuit with Annette Edmondson , Ashlee Ankudinoff and Melissa Hoskins . The following year she was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . She started in the team pursuit and finished fifth with the Australian women's four. At the UCI Track World Championships 2017 , she won the silver medal in the team pursuit together with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Alexandra Manly and Rebecca Wiasak . She won two gold medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games , in the team pursuit and in the scratch . The following year, the Australian women's foursome was again world champion with Cure in his ranks , Cure also won silver in the two-man team driving with Georgia Baker . At the Oceania Championships 2019/20, she won the points race , the Omnium and with Manly in the two-man team.

After the Olympic Games in Tokyo were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , Cure announced her retirement from competitive cycling in June 2020.

successes

train

2009
  • World Champion Junior World Champion - Scratch
  • silver Junior World Championship - Single Pursuit
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Junior Champion - Single Pursuit
2010
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Junior Champion - points race, single pursuit
2013
2014
2015
2017
2018
2019
2019/20
  • OceaniaChampionJersey.pngOceania Champion - points race, Omnium, two-man team race (with Alexandra Manly )

Street

2010
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Junior Champion - Individual Time Trial
2012
2013

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Amy Cure announces retirement from cycling. In: australiancyclingteam.com. June 19, 2020, accessed on June 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Cure, Amy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Burnie , Tasmania