Annette Edmondson

Annette Edmondson
	Annette Edmondson (2018)
To person
Nickname	Nettie
Date of birth	December 12, 1991
nation	Australia
discipline	Train / street
Societies)
	Norwood
Most important successes
	Olympic games 2012 - Omnium UCI track world championships 2019 - Team Pursuit 2015 - Omnium, team pursuit UCI Road World Championships 2015 - team time trial
	Last updated: November 2, 2019

Annette Edmondson (born December 12, 1991 in Adelaide ) is an Australian cyclist who is active on track and road .

Athletic career

At the Oceanic Junior Cycling Championships 2007, Annette Edmondson won three gold medals, in sprint , keirin and track cycling ; in the team sprint she won the silver medal together with Chloe Hosking . In addition, she won six national junior titles in various disciplines.

Edmondson has been racing in the elite class since 2010 and was already on the podium at Australian track championships in her first year. By 2015, she had won a total of 15 national titles, including in 2013, together with Jessica Mundy, the two-man team competition, which was awarded to women for the first time in Australia .

Annette Edmondson has been competing for UCI teams since 2013 , initially for Orica-AIS and since 2015 for Wiggle Honda , and has since been successfully competing in road races. In 2013 she won the Tour of Chongming Island and in the same year she won the bronze medal in team driving at the World Road Championships with her team . The following year, at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships , she secured the silver medal with the Wiggle Honda team. In the same year she secured two world titles at the world championships on the track , in the Omnium and in the team pursuit (with Ashlee Ankudinoff , Amy Cure and Melissa Hoskins ).

In 2016 Annette Edmondson was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . She finished eighth in the Omnium and fifth in the team pursuit together with Georgia Baker , Ashlee Ankudinoff and Amy Cure .

In 2018 Edmondson became a two-time Oceania Champion and won the team pursuit at the Commonwealth Games with Ankudinoff, Cure and Alexandra Manly . In 2019 she won the Omnium at the Track World Cup in Cambridge . At the rail world championships in the same year in Pruszków , Poland , she was world champion in team pursuit together with Ankudinoff, Baker, Cure and Manly.

Family and team

Annette Edmondson is an older sister of the cyclist Alexander Edmondson . Both were nominated for the 2012 Olympic Games in London , making them the first sibling pair from Australia to compete in cycling at the same Games. At the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, the siblings both started again.

Your coaches are the two former cyclists Gary Sutton and Matthew Gilmore .

successes

train

2007

Oceania Champion (Juniors) - Sprint, Scratch, Team Sprint (with Chloe Hosking )
Oceanic Championship (Elite) - Keirin

2008

Junior World Championship - Sprint
Australian Junior Champion - Keirin, Sprint, Scratch

2009

Junior World Championship - Keirin
Australian Junior Champion - Keirin, Sprint, Scratch

2011

Australian Champion - Scratch, Omnium

2012

Summer Olympics - Omnium
World Championship - Omnium, Team Pursuit (with Melissa Hoskins and Josephine Tomic )
Australian champion - points race, single pursuit

2013

World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Melissa Hoskins and Ashlee Ankudinoff )
World Championship - Omnium, One Pursuit
Oceania Champion - Omnium, points race
Australian Champion - Omnium, two-man team driving (with Jessica Mundy )

2014

World Championship - Omnium, Team Pursuit (with Amy Cure , Melissa Hoskins, and Isabelle King )
Oceania Champion - Omnium, One Pursuit
Australian Champion - Scratch