Georgia Baker

Georgia Baker
	Georgia Baker (2018)
To person
Nickname	G
Date of birth	September 21, 1994
nation	Australia
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2019 - Team Pursuit Oceania Championships 2016 - points race 2015 - individual pursuit
	Last updated: February 2, 2020

Georgia Baker (born September 21, 1994 in Launceston ) is an Australian cyclist who competes on track and road .

As a child, Georgia Baker tried various sports, including swimming, netball, and taekwondo . After a testing program in her elementary school, she decided to go cycling . In 2011, she became Junior World Champion in the team pursuit with Taylah Jennings and Emily Roper . The following year she won two titles as junior world champion , in scratch and in team pursuit (with Taylah Jennings and Kelsey Robson ). In 2015 she was Oceania champion in the single pursuit and in 2016 in the points race .

In 2016 Georgia Baker started in the team pursuit at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished fifth together with Ashlee Ankudinoff , Amy Cure and Melissa Hoskins . The following year, she had an operation on her heart.

In 2016 and 2017, Baker was Oceania Champion twice in a row in the points race, in 2018 also in the Omnium and in the team pursuit (with Kristina Clonan , Macey Stewart and Ashlee Ankudinoff ), in the points race she won silver and in the scratch bronze. At the World Cup in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines , she finished first with Clonan, Ankudinoff and Stewart.

2019 was Georgia Baker's most successful year to date: Together with Ashlee Ankudinoff , Annette Edmondson , Amy Cure and Alexandra Manly , she became world champion in the team pursuit and vice-world champion in two-man team driving with Cure. In the following season she won the two-man team drive in three races and the team pursuit once with the four-man.

successes

Australian Champion - Team Pursuit (with Amy Cure , Lauren Perry and Macey Stewart )

Track Cycling World Cup in Cambridge - Team Pursuit (with Annette Edmondson , Ashlee Ankudinoff and Amy Cure )
Oceania Championship - one's pursuit
Australian Champion - Team Pursuit (with Amy Cure , Lauren Perry and Macey Stewart )

Oceania Champion - Omnium, Team Pursuit (with Kristina Clonan , Macey Stewart and Ashlee Ankudinoff )

Oceania Championship - points race

Oceania Championship - Scratch

World Championship - Two Team Driving (with Amy Cure )

World Cup in Brisbane - team pursuit (with Annette Edmondson , Ashlee Ankudinoff and Maeve Plouffe ), two-man team driving (with Annette Edmondson)

Commons : Georgia Baker - collection of images, videos, and audio files

^ Georgia Baker. In: Cycling Australia. Retrieved December 30, 2016 .
^ Rob Shaw: Tasmania's Olympic cyclist Georgia Baker undergoes heart surgery. In: thecourier.com.au. August 12, 2017, accessed January 28, 2019 .