Rushlee Buchanan

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Rushlee Buchanan Road cycling
Rushlee Buchanan (2020)
Rushlee Buchanan (2020)
To person
Date of birth January 20, 1988
nation New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
discipline Road / train
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2018 bronze - Omnium
2010, 2017 bronze - team pursuit
Last updated: June 5, 2020
Buchanan at La Course 2015

Rushlee Buchanan (born January 20, 1988 in Te Awamutu ) is a New Zealand cyclist .

Athletic career

2005 Rushlee Buchanan in Vienna Vice World Champion of the juniors in the points race .

In 2010 and 2014, Rushlee Buchanan was New Zealand women's road champion; In 2009 she had already become the criterion master. At the 2010 World Track Championships in Ballerup , she took third place in the team pursuit with Lauren Ellis and Alison Shanks . In the race for third place, the New Zealand team set a new world record (3: 21.552 minutes). In 2013 she was two-time Oceania champion, in scratch and in team pursuit (with Lauren Ellis, Jaime Nielsen and Georgia Williams ).

In 2016, Rushlee Buchanan won both New Zealand titles in road cycling, road racing and individual time trials . In 2016 she was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Together with Jaime Nielsen , Racquel Sheath and Georgia Williams , she finished fourth in the team pursuit.

In 2017 Buchanan was again New Zealand road champion, becoming the first female cyclist in her country to win this title four times in a row. At the World Railroad Championships in Hong Kong in the same year she won the bronze medal in the team pursuit with Racquel Sheath , Kirstie James , Jaime Nielsen and Michaela Drummond .

From 2018 Buchanan concentrated on track cycling: At the 2018 World Track Championships in Apeldoorn , the Netherlands , Buchanan won the bronze medal in the Omnium after having moved up from eleventh to third place in the final points race, including two laps. She won three medals at the ocean track championships. In 2019 she was one of the New Zealand four-man team that won two World Cup races and won two oceanic medals again. At the UCI Bahn World Championships 2020 in Berlin, the four finished sixth.

Miscellaneous

Rushlee Buchanan has been married to the American cyclist Adrian Hegyvary since 2014 (as of 2018).

In 2019 she received a New Zealand Cycling Award .

successes

train

2005
  • silver Junior World Track Championship - points race
2010
2013
2017
2018
2019
2020
  • silver Oceania Championship - Scratch
  • bronze Oceania Championship - Omnium

Street

2006
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Junior Champion - Road Race
2009
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - Criterion
2010
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - Road Race
2014
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - Road Race
2016
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - Road Race, Individual Time Trial
2017
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - Road Race

Teams

Web links

Commons : Rushlee Buchanan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rushlee Buchanan creates history with fourth national road cycling title. In: stuff.co.nz. January 7, 2017, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ New Zealand's Rushlee Buchanan wins bronze at world cycling champs. In: stuff.co.nz. March 3, 2018, accessed March 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Natural Born Racer. In: NZ Cycling Journal. July 4, 2018, accessed November 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Development work rewarded at cycling annual awards evening. In: Cycling New Zealand. May 27, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Buchanan, Rushlee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Te Awamutu