Gracie Elvin

Gracie Elvin
	Gracie Elvin at the 2015 Women's Tour
To person
Date of birth	October 31, 1988
nation	Australia
discipline	Road / mountain bike
To the team
Current team	Mitchelton Scott
function	driver
Most important successes
	Oceanic Cycling Championships 2012: - road racing 2012: - Individual time trial
	Last updated: November 1st, 2019

Gracie Elvin (born October 31, 1988 in Canberra ) is an Australian cyclist who is active on the road and mountain bike .

Athletic career

Gracie Elvin began her cycling career primarily on the mountain bike and became the Australian cross country champion in 2009 . In 2012 she won two medals in road cycling at the Oceanic Cycling Championships, in road racing she won the gold medal and in the individual time trial she won the silver medal. In 2013 she was fourth in the overall ranking of the Tour of Qatar and third in the Australian championship in the criterion . In 2013 and 2014 she won the Australian road racing championship.

At the end of May 2015 Elvin won her first elite race in Europe at Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik and was able to repeat this success in 2016. At the beginning of January 2016 she won the Bay Cycling Classic . In the same year she started in the road race of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished 49th.

Together with Iris Slappendel and Carmen Small , who have retired from active sport , Elvin founded the Cyclists' Alliance , a professional association for female cyclists, in 2017 .