Kerrie Meares

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Kerrie Meares Road cycling
To person
Date of birth 4th September 1982
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Train (short term)
To the team
Current team End of career
function driver
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2002 silver - sprint
2002 bronze - 500 meter time trial
Commonwealth Games
2002 gold - Sprint, 500-meter time trial
Last updated: March 25, 2017

Kerrie Meares (born September 4, 1982 in Blackwater ) is an Australian cycling trainer and former Australian track cyclist .

In 1999 Kerrie Meares was runner-up in the junior 500 m time trial world championship ; In 2000 she became Junior World Champion. Since then, she has won numerous national and international titles in short-term disciplines on the track. Eight times she took first places in the Commonwealth and Oceania Games in time trials, keirin and sprint . She has also been the Australian champion in short-term disciplines several times, most recently in the Keirin in 2009 and in the team sprint with Emily Rosemond ; she won eight national titles in total. In 2010 she retired from competitive cycling.

Kerrie Meares' planned participation in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens failed due to a herniated disc.

In 2009 Meares ended her active cycling career. She then worked as a cycling trainer together with her sports colleague Emily Rosemond (as of 2016).

Kerrie Meares is an older sister of former track cyclist and two-time Olympic champion Anna Meares , who came to cycling through the example of Kerrie.

successes

1999
  • silver Junior World Championship - 500 meter time trial
  • bronze Oceania Championship - Scratch
2000
  • World Champion Junior world champion - 500 meter time trial
2002
2004
  • gold Oceania Champion - Sprint, Keirin, 500m Time Trial
2005
  • gold Oceania Champion - Keirin
  • silver Oceania Championship - 500 meter time trial
  • bronze Oceania Championship - Sprint
  • MaillotAustralia.PNGAustralian Champion - Team Sprint (with Anna Meares )
2006
2007
  • goldOceania Champion - Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch )
  • silver Oceania Championship - Sprint
  • MaillotAustralia.PNGAustralian Champion - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Anna Meares )
2008
2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gus Williams: The Morning Bulletin: Back in the Rider's Seat; Kerrie Meares Comes out of Retirement to Promote Region. Questia, September 4, 2010, accessed January 22, 2014 .
  2. ↑ The age.com: "Sister act back on world stage" accessed on March 15, 2010 (English)
  3. ^ Rob Shaw: Cycling stars to shine at Silverdome. In: examiner.com.au. March 26, 2017, accessed March 25, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Emily Rosemond & Kerrie Meares. In: TrainingPeaks. Retrieved March 25, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Meares, Kerrie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian track cyclist and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackwater