Siân Mulholland

Siân Mulholland

To person
Date of birth	April 3, 1959
nation	Australia
discipline	Train / street
End of career	1990
Team (s) as coach
1990–	different teams
Last updated: December 9, 2017

Siân Mulholland (born April 3, 1959 ) is an Australian cycling trainer and former cyclist. She was the first woman to compete for Australia at the UCI World Championships .

Athletic career

Siân Mulholland started cycling in 1971 and was the only woman in her club in Gilgandra . At that time there were no national championships for women in Australia.

After Mulholland found no more equal opponents in Australia, she looked for the greater challenge at the UCI Track World Championships in 1982 in Leicester, UK . She received little support from the Australian Cycling Federation: Although the entry fees were covered, she had to bear all other costs herself. At the world championships, she finished tenth in the sprint . Since then, female athletes from Australia have taken part in all track world championships.

Siân Mulholland was four times Australian champion, 1982 and 1984 Australian cyclist of the year and in 1982 and 1986 cyclist of the year of New South Wales , 2003 also ACT Masters Track Cyclist of the Year . She was the first woman to take part in the 225 kilometer road race from Goulburn to Sydney . She won bronze in the sprint at oceanic championships.

Trainer and functionary

After ending her own sporting career in 1990, Siân Mulholland worked as a cycling trainer and organized numerous training camps for women. She convinced associations, clubs and sponsors to organize cycling races for women and contacted female cyclists to convince them to promote races and take part in them. She is committed to ensuring that women receive the same prize money as men. In 2012, she coached the paracycling cyclist Susan Powell to gold at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London . She is the manager and sporting director of the women's cycling team that takes part in the national road racing series in Australia (as of 2014).

Mulholland was voted Coach of the Year by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) twice and was inducted into the ACT Sport Hall of Fame in 2009 . In December 2014 Siân Mulholland was awarded the IOC Women and Sport Award for the continent of Oceania in Monaco as one of six winners.

Web links

• Siân Mulholland in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Siân Mulholland - CBR Sport Awards. In: cbrsportawards.com.au. November 15, 2017, accessed December 9, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ACT Sports Hall of Fame. To Induct Sian Mulholland. (No longer available online.) Females in Training, June 2009, p. 2 , archived from the original on March 3, 2015 ; accessed on December 31, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} IOC Women and Sport Award for Siân Mulholland. rad-net, December 31, 2014, accessed December 31, 2014 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} IOC Women and Sport Award for cyclist, coach and campaigner Siân Mulholland. UCI, December 9, 2014, accessed December 31, 2014 . 
4. ^ Chance meeting put Powell on gold track. The Age, September 1, 2012, accessed December 31, 2014 .