Annette Edmondson
 Edmondson in 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | Nettie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
12 December 1991 Adelaide, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Wiggle High5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track and Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type |
Track – Endurance Road – Sprinter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2011 | AIS Women's Track Endurance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2012–2013 | Team Jayco-AIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Orica-AIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015– | Wiggle–Honda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tour of Chongming Island (2013) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Annette Edmondson (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian cyclist who competes on the track with Cycling Australia's High Performance Unit (HPU) and on the road for the professional women's team Wiggle High5.
Her greatest successes to date are her results at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she claimed a silver in the Individual Pursuit and a gold in the Scratch Race, which is her first ever gold medal at an international level and her first time being Commonwealth Champion. In addition, she has competed at the National Track Championships with gold medal results at an elite level since 2012 in multiple disciplines. In addition, she also has competed at international events, representing in Australia at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, where she has secured silver medals in the Omnium (2012), Team pursuit (2012 & 2013).
Edmondson has also competed in the London 2012 Olympics, securing a bronze medal for Australia in the women's Omnium and finished in fourth place in the Team pursuit.
Early life
Edmondson was born in Adelaide, but due to her parents' careers at Royal Dutch Shell, she spent the early part of her childhood living in Malaysia, Oman and the Netherlands. However, when she was six, the family returned to her father's native land of Australia.
She attended the Victor Harbor Primary School, south of Adelaide, South Australia, later moving to St John's Grammar School in the Adelaide Hills where she took up numerous pursuits, including soccer and athletics.
Career
When she was 13, the South Australian Sports Institute visited her school and she was identified as having the physical attributes to have a potential career in cycling. After a year in the Talent Search Program, her first major win came at the 2006 National Junior Track Championships where she won two bronze medals in the Under 17 500m Time Trial and Sprint. From that point, she began to specialise in sprint cycling and as a junior won sprint events at a National and Oceania level.
In 2010, she took part in her first elite level National Championships finishing with silvers in the Team sprint, Keirin and 500m TT as well as a bronze in the Individual sprint.
However, Annette began to lose interest in the sport and took a break from cycling. In spite of her doubt, she returned to training just four months later, but she wanted a change and therefore made the switch from sprint to endurance cycling. Eight months later, she had successfully made the switch by becoming the Australian Omnium and Scratch Race champion.
Her first World Championships came in 2012 at the UCI World Championships in Melbourne in which she achieved silver in both the Omnium and Team Pursuit. These results helped her secure a place in the 2012 Australian Olympic Team.
In London, she took part in two events of the Olympic Track Cycling Schedule. In the Team Pursuit, the Australian squad secured 4th place, missing out on the bronze medal. It was her effort and performance in the 6 events of the Omnium which resulted in her claiming the bronze medal.
After the Olympics, in 2013, she signed a professional road contract with Orica-AIS, in her first season with the team, she secured a major victory taking 1st overall in the Tour of Chongming Island. Her and teammates took 3rd in the 2013 World Road Race Championships TTT in Florence, Italy.
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Edmondson claimed a silver in the Individual Pursuit along with fellow athlete Amy Cure who took a bronze in the event. On the 3rd day of competition (26 July 2014), Edmondson took part in the 10 km Scratch Race, where she raced to victory taking her 1st Commonwealth Games Gold Medal and again fellow athlete Amy Cure also succeeded coming out with a silver medal from the event.
On 22 October 2014, Wiggle–Honda announced that Edmondson had signed with the team for the 2015 season.[1]
Personal life
Edmondson has also had an interest in charity work from a young age. Her first recognition of her work came in 2007 in which she became ‘Make Indigenous Poverty History Youth Ambassador for SA’. Since then, she has made personal visits to deprived areas, such as parts of Indonesia to give up her time as volunteer. Her choice of Indonesia may have come about as she is fluent in Indonesian.
Edmondson has two brothers, with Alex also being a member of the Australian track cycling team.[2]
Palmarès
Track
- 2007
- 1st
Oceania Junior Track Championships (Individual sprint) - 1st Oceania Junior Track Championships (Team sprint) with Chloe Hosking
- 1st Oceania Junior Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 3rd Oceania Track Championships (Keirin)
- 2008
- 1st
National Junior Track Championships (500m Time Trial) - 1st National Junior Track Championships (Individual sprint)
- 1st National Junior Track Championships (Keirin)
- 2nd World Junior Track Championships (Individual sprint)
- 3rd National Track Championships (Team Sprint)
- 2009
- 1st National Junior Track Championships (Individual sprint)
- 1st National Junior Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 1st National Junior Track Championships (500m Time Trial)
- 2nd National Junior Track Championship (Keirin)
- 3rd World Junior Track Championships (Keirin)
- 2010
- 2nd National Track Championships (Team sprint)
- 2nd National Track Championships (Keirin)
- 2nd National Track Championships (500m Time Trial)
- 3rd National Track Championships (Individual sprint)
- 2011
- 1st National Track Championships (Omnium)
- 1st National Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 3rd National Track Championships (Team Pursuit)
- 2012
- 1st National Track Championships (Individual pursuit)
- 1st National Track Championships (Points race)
- 2nd National Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 2nd World Track Championships (Team Pursuit)
- 2nd World Track Championships (Omnium)
- 3rd Olympic Track Championships (Omnium)
- 4th Olympic Track Championships (Team Pursuit)
- 2013
- 1st National Track Championships (Omnium)
- 1st National Track Championships (Individual pursuit)
- 1st National Track Championships (Points race)
- 1st National Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 1st Oceania Track Championships (Points race)
- 1st Oceania Track Championships (Omnium)
- 1st 6 Giorni delle Rose Omnium
- 1st Invercargill Scratch race
- 2nd Oceania Track Championships (Team Pursuit)
- 2nd World Track Championships (Team pursuit)
- 3rd World Track Championships (Individual pursuit)
- 3rd World Track Championships (Omnium)
- 2014
- 1st National Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 1st National Track Championships (Points race)
- 1st National Track Championships (Omnium)
- 1st National Track Championships (Madison) with Jessica Mundy
- 1st Oceania Track Championships (Individual Pursuit)
- 1st Oceania Track Championships (Omnium)
- 1st Commonwealth Games Track Championships (Scratch race)
- 2nd Commonwealth Games Track Championships (Individual pursuit)
- 2nd National Track Championships (Individual pursuit)
- 3rd National Track Championships (Team pursuit)
- 3rd World Track Championships (Team pursuit)
- 3rd World Track Championships (Omnium)
- 2015
- 1st
World Track Championships (Team pursuit) - 1st World Track Championships (Omnium)
- 1st Oceania Track Championships (Omnium)
- 1st National Track Championships (Madison) with Jessica Mundy
- 2nd National Track Championships (Individual Pursuit)
- 2nd National Track Championships (Team pursuit)
- 4th National Track Championships (Points Race)
- 2016
- 1st National Track Championships (Scratch race)[3]
- 1st National Track Championships (Points race)[3]
Road
- 2011
- 8th Oceania Road Race Championships
- 2012
- 2nd National U23 Criterium Championships
- 3rd National Criterium Championships
- 8th Road Race Oceania Championships
- 2013
- 1st Overall Tour of Chongming Island
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Stage 4 Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour
- 3rd UCI World Road Race Championships TTT
- 9th Dwars door de Westhoek
- 2014
- 1st Points Classification Adelaide Tour
- 2nd UCI World Road Race Championships TTT
- 2015
- 4th RideLondon Grand Prix[4]
- 2016
- 1st Stage 2 Santos Women's Tour[5]
References
- ↑ "Edmonson signs for Wiggle-Honda". cyclingnews.com. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ↑ "Australia's silver siblings Annette and Alex Edmondson step up at Commonwealth Games". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). 25 July 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- 1 2 "Moolman-Pasio skips South African time trial defense due to illness, Venter claims title – Women's News Shorts". cyclingnews.com. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- ↑ "Laura Trott misses out in RideLondon Grand Prix". Sky Sports. 1 August 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
- ↑ Braverman, Jessi (17 January 2016). "Nettie Edmondson steals the show with Santos Women's Tour stage two win". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.