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Australia
Caitlin Ward (born 1 February 1994) is an Australian track cyclist who has been selected for the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Personal
Caitlin Ward was born in Frankston, Victoria, on 1 February 1994. She has a master's degree in Physiotherapy from Flinders University in Adelaide. She runs track sessions for AusCycling in South Australia and co-owns JKT Coaching.
Cycling
Ward became interested in cycling after participating in the Around the Bay in a Day in 2005 and the Great Victorian Bike Ride in 2006 when she was in the fifth grade at primary school.
She was sidelined between 2015 and 2018 with a series of injuries including glandular fever and a broken ankle after a gym accident in which it was crushed by a 250 kilogram leg press, but she came back to win the women's sprint and keirin at the Australian national titles in 2019. She represented Australia at the 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Brisbane but missed out on selection for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
In 2022, Ward became the sighted pilot for blind Paralympian Jessica Gallagher at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where they won gold in the tandem B sprint and tandem time trial B at London's Lee Valley VeloPark. At the 2023 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Glasgow the following year they won silver medals in both events. At the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in March 2024, they won bronze in the tandem B Sprint and the 1 km time trial.
Ward was selected as pilot for Gallager at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, where they won silver in the Women's B 1000m Time Trial.
Notes
- ^ "Caitlin Ward Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- "Track champion Caitlin Ward making 'paw-sitive' impact on animals lives". AusCycling. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- "More Great Vic alumni gold". Bicycle Network. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- "Aussie Tandem dream team of Jess Gallagher and Caitlin Ward forged from adversity". Jess Gallagher. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- Monteverde, Marco (7 April 2019). "Caitlin Ward finds redemption at nationals with double success". Courier-Mail. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- "Women's B Sprint and the". api.veloresults.com. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- "Women B 1km Time Trial Final". api.veloresults.com. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- "Paralympics Australia Names Cycling Team For Paris 2024". Paralympics Australia. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- "Paris 2024 - Women's B 1000m Time Trial - Final Results". olympics.com. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Australian female cyclists
- Australian track cyclists
- Paralympic cyclists for Australia
- Paralympic sighted guides
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists from Melbourne
- Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Paralympic medalists in cycling