Katrin Garfoot
Katrin Garfoot (2016) in Rio de Janeiro | |
To person | |
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Full name | Katrin Garfoot |
Date of birth | October 8, 1981 |
nation | Australia |
discipline | Road cycling |
To the team | |
Current team | Mitchelton-Scott |
function | driver |
End of career | August 2018 |
Societies) | |
Gold Coast Cycling Club | |
Most important successes | |
Last updated: September 26, 2018 |
Katrin Garfoot (born October 8, 1981 in Eggenfelden ) is a former Australian cyclist .
Athletic career
Katrin Garfoot was born in Germany and grew up in Munich. As a teenager she practiced heptathlon . She moved to New Zealand at the age of 25 ; She has lived in Australia since 2008 and has been a national since October 2013. Her Australian husband introduced her to cycling by taking her on mountain bike tours with friends.
In 2012, at the age of 31, Katrin Garfoot became active in competitive cycling; her first success was second overall on the Canberra Women's Tour that year. In 2013 she won the gold medal in the road race at the Oceanic Cycling Championships, in the individual time trial she finished fourth. She also won the National Road Series . In 2014 she finished third in the Australian Road Championship, at the Oceanic Championships she finished fourth in the time trial and fifth in the road race. In the overall ranking of Gracia Orlová she came second.
At the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow Garfoot finished third in the individual time trial. At the 2016 Oceanic Road Championships in Bendigo , she won the individual time trial title for the second time. In 2016 she started in the road race of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished ninth. At the road world championships in the same year she won the bronze medal in the individual time trial.
In 2017, Katrin Garfoot became Australian double champion, in road racing and in the individual time trial. At the end of the season, she won the bronze medal in the individual time trial and the silver medal in the road race at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships . After the World Cup, she announced that she would probably take a break from racing to start a family. But she plans to return to racing afterwards to compete in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo .
In April 2018, Katrin Garfoot started at the Commonwealth Games and won the individual time trial. She then became seriously ill and was unable to exercise. At the beginning of August of that year, she announced her retirement from competitive cycling, as sport and family are increasingly incompatible.
Honors
In 2013 - around four weeks after her naturalization in Australia - Katrin Garfoot was named Elite Female Road Cyclist of the Year in Queensland . In 2016 she was named Australia's Road Cyclist of the Year .
Professional
Garfoot is a teacher by profession and holds degrees in biology and exercise science .
successes
- 2013
- 2014
- Commonwealth Games - Individual Time Trial
- 2015
- Oceania Champion - Individual Time Trial
- Oceania Championship - Road Race
- a stage women's tour of New Zealand
- 2016
- World Championship - Individual Time Trial
- Oceania Champion - Individual Time Trial
- Overall ranking and a stage Tour Down Under
- Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen
- two stages tour of Qatar
- Australian Champion - Individual Time Trial
- 2017
- Australian Champion - Road Race, Individual Time Trial
- a stage Emakumeen Bira
- World Championship - Individual Time Trial
- World Championship - Road Race
- 2018
- Australian Champion - Individual Time Trial
- one stage Santos Women's Tour
- Commonwealth Games Winner - Individual Time Trial
Teams
- 2014 Orica-AIS (from June 17th)
- 2015 Orica GreenEdge
- 2016 Orica GreenEdge
- 2017 Orica-Scott
Web links
- Katrin Garfoot in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Katrin Garfoot in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Katrin Garfoot. Cycling Australia, accessed September 25, 2016 .
- Katrin Garfoot joins ORICA-AIS. Orica GreenEdge, accessed September 25, 2015 .
- What's next? Katrin Garfoot's blog, accessed August 6, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susan Westemeyer: World Championships: Blaak solos to women's road race title - Garfoot, Dideriksen take silver and bronze. In: Cycling News. September 23, 2017, accessed on September 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Stephen Farrand: Garfoot ready to put family first after bronze in Worlds time trial. In: cyclingnews.com. September 19, 2017, accessed October 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Vice World Champion Garfoot ends her career. In: rad-net.de. August 7, 2018, accessed August 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Hepburn captures his second Cycling Queensland Cyclist of the Year. Cycling Queensland, November 25, 2013, accessed August 7, 2014 .
- ^ Hayman and Garfoot collect Australian Cyclist of the Year awards. In: Cycling News. November 18, 2016, accessed November 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Nicole Jeffery: Late bloomer finally riding towards destiny. The Australian, June 28, 2014, accessed August 6, 2014 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Garfoot, Katrin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1981 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Eggenfelden |