Grace Brown (born 7 July 1992) is an Australian road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam FDJ–Suez.[8] Brown competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She just missed out on a medal in the women’s time trial, finishing fourth. She also competed in the women's road race where she came 47th.[9][10] At the 2024 Paris Olympics she won the gold medal in the women's individual time trial event.
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| Full name | Grace Brown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 7 July 1992[3] Camperdown, Victoria, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | FDJ–Suez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2015–2016 | St Kilda Cycling Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Route 33[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Holden Team Gusto Racing[5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Wiggle High5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Mitchelton–Scott[6][7] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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One-day races and Classics
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Medal record
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Career
edit2015–2018 seasons
editBrown started cycling in 2015 after previously being involved in running.[11][12] She started 2018 riding for Holden Team Gusto Racing. She then joined British UCI team Wiggle High5 for the latter part of 2018 season after being selected as the recipient of the Amy Gillett Cycling Scholarship.[13][14] Her first race for Wiggle High5 was the Tour of California, a UCI Women's World Tour event, that was held in mid-May.[15]
2019–2020 seasons
editBrown joined the Mitchelton–Scott team at the start of the 2019 season.[11] She had a good start to the 2019 season winning the Australian National Time Trial Championships and a stage at the Tour Down Under.[16] She achieved her first major victory in Europe in the autumn of 2020 winning Brabantse Pijl in a solo breakaway.[17] She was awarded AusCycling's Female Road Cyclist of the Year award for 2020.[18]
2021 season
editBrown started the 2021 season in Australia with second places in both the road race and time trial at the National Championships.[19][20]
Brown had strong results in the 2021 Spring classics. She achieved her first victory in the Women's World Tour at Brugge-De Panne.[21] She was also second at Nokere Koerse and third at the Tour of Flanders.[22] She was selected in the Australian team to compete in the road race and time trial at the Tokyo Olympics.[23] She finished fourth in the time trial.[24]
In August 2021 Brown signed a two-year contract with French Women's WorldTeam FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope.[25] She ended the 2021 season early to have shoulder surgery.[26]
2024 season
editBrown won the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes in April.[27] In June 2024 Brown announced her plan to retire from professional cycling at the end of the 2024 season[28] and in the following month she won the Olympic time trial on very wet Parisian roads.[29] In September, she won the time trial at the World Championships, becoming the first cyclist to win both the Olympic and World championship time trial races in the same season.[30]
Major results
edit- 2017
- Oceania Continental Road Championships
- 5th Time trial
- 5th Road race
- 2018
- Oceania Continental Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial - 2nd Road race
- 1st
- National Road Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 4th Time trial
- 5th Overall Tour Down Under
- 9th Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 2019
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under
- 8th Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 10th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 2020
- 1st Brabantse Pijl
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2021
- 1st Classic Brugge–De Panne
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 2nd Nokere Koerse
- 3rd Tour of Flanders
- 4th Clasica Femenina Navarra
- 4th Time trial, Olympic Games
- 5th La Course by Le Tour de France
- 6th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st Stage 1
- 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2022
- 1st
Time trial, Commonwealth Games - National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 1st La Périgord
- 1st Stage 3 Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta
- 2nd
Time trial, UCI Road World Championships - 2nd Overall The Women's Tour
- 1st Stage 4
- 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd Classic Lorient Agglomération
- 3rd GP de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 4th La Classique Morbihan
- 5th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
- 7th Tour of Flanders
- 2023
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 3
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Bretagne Ladies Tour
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 1st GP de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 5th Overall Tour of Scandinavia
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 6th Amstel Gold Race
- 6th Overall Tour féminin international des Pyrénées
- 2024
- 1st
Time trial, Olympic Games - UCI Road World Championships
- 1st
Time trial - 1st Team relay
- 1st
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 4th Road race
- 1st
- 1st Overall Bretagne Ladies Tour
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT) & 3
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 5th Deakin University Road Race
Classics results timeline
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| Monument | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||||||||
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| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | 14 | 3 | 7 | 23 | — | ||||||||
| Paris–Roubaix | Did not exist | NH | — | 12 | 13 | 61 | ||||||||||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | — | 2 | — | 2 | 46 | 1 | ||||||||
Major championship results timeline
edit| Event | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
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| Olympic Games
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Time trial | Not held | 4 | Not held | 1 | ||||
| Road race | 47 | 23 | |||||||
 World Championships
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Time trial | — | — | — | 5 | — | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Road race | — | 48 | — | 91 | — | 35 | 24 | ||
 Oceanian Championships
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Time trial | 5 | 1 | — | Not held | — | — | — | |
| Road race | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | — | |||
 Commonwealth Games
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Time trial | NH | — | Not held | 1 | Not held | |||
| Road race | — | 33 | |||||||
 National Championships
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Time trial | — | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Road race | — | 3 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
| DNE | Did not exist |
References
edit- ^ "Meet The Team". Holden Team Gusto. Archived from the original on 7 March 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ Malseed, Shannon (28 July 2017). "WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT TEAM BLOG: SHANNON MALSEED – THE INSIDE SCOOP". Cycling Australia. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ Grace Brown at Cycling Archives (archive) accessed 14 January 2018
- ^ Vella-Wright, Jarrah (23 July 2016). "GRACE BROWN TRANSITIONS FROM RUNNING TO CYCLING". Cycling Victoria. Archived from the original on 10 August 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Brown's star on the rise in the Subaru NRS". Cycle Sport News. 31 March 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Mitchelton-Scott women announce 10-rider roster for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 19 November 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ Weislo, Laura (8 January 2020). "2020 Team Preview: Mitchelton-Scott Women". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ "Team BikeExchange". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 13 January 2021. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
- ^ "Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Grace BROWN". Olympics.com. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ a b "New rider - Who is Grace Brown?". Mitchelton-SCOTT GreenEDGE Cycling. 6 March 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ Been, José (13 October 2020). "Grace Brown, Aussie aggressor: 'I am not afraid to fail while trying'". CyclingTips. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ "NRS TEAM PROFILE: HOLDEN TEAM GUSTO". Ride Media. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ Giuliani, Simone (19 April 2018). "Brown awarded Amy Gillett scholarship, Wiggle High5 provides development spot". Ella CyclingTips. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Wiggle High5 welcomes 2018 Amy Gillett scholarship winner Grace Brown". Wiggle High5. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "Grace Brown re-signs with Mitchelton-Scott for 2020". CyclingNews. 11 October 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ "Grace Brown wins Brabantse Pijl Dames 2020". CyclingNews. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ "Porte wins Australian Cyclist of the Year award". Cycling News. 17 February 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ "Gigante defends elite and U23 women's time trial title". Cycling News. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Australian Road Championships: Sarah Roy wins elite women's road race". Cycling News. 7 February 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Grace Brown wins Brugge-De Panne with solo move". VeloNews. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Grace Brown: You can't be disappointed with a podium at Tour of Flanders". Swiss Cycles. 5 April 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Australian road cycling team revealed for Tokyo Olympics". Cycling Tips. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ "Aussie heartbreak as Van Vleuten takes Women's time trial gold". SBS Cycling Central. 29 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Grace Brown signs two-year deal with FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope". Cycling News. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "Grace Brown to end season early as shoulder injury requires surgery". Cycling News. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "Grace Brown wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège". AusCycling. 22 April 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ "'I really miss my life in Australia' – Grace Brown to retire from professional cycling at end of 2024 Grace wins the gold medal at the olympics 2024". Cyclingnews. 22 June 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ Media, P. A. (27 July 2024). "Anna Henderson survives storm to take silver for Team GB in women's time trial". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ url= https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2024/sep/22/remco-evenepoel-retains-world-time-trial-title-with-victory-in-zurich
External links
edit- Grace Brown at Cycling Archives (archive)
- Grace Brown at ProCyclingStats