Katrin Garfoot

Katrin Garfoot
	Katrin Garfoot (2016) in Rio de Janeiro
To person
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
	UCI Road World Championships 2017: - Road races 2016, 2017: - Individual time trial Commonwealth Games 2018: - Individual time trial 2014: - road racing Oceanic Cycling Championships 2015, 2016: - Individual time trial 2013: - road racing
	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 .