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| Full name | Caroline Alexander | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1968-03-03) 3 March 1968 (age 56) Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road & MTB XC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1991 | Kona | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Raleigh | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Louis Garneau | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | BMW-Klein | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Team Ritchey | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | American Eagle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Specialized MTB | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Caroline Sarah J. Alexander (born 3 March 1968) is a cross-country mountain biker and road cyclist born in Barrow-in-Furness. She was a swimmer as a child and did not cycle until she was 20. She first rode a bike in competition in a triathlon: she came second in the swimming and was fastest on the bike. She entered her first mountain bike race, which she won. Within a year she was one of the top three mountain-bike racers in the UK. She left her job as a draughtswoman in Barrow shipyards and became a full-time cyclist.
She represented Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She was a reserve for the British Cycling team at the 2001 UCI road world championships Alexander also represented Britain at the UCI Women's Road World Cup events in 2002. Alexander represented Scotland in the first mountain-bike event in the Commonwealth Games in 2002.
She was the first British female mountain biker to win a UCI World Cup stage in 1997.
Alexander retired from cycling in 2004. In 2009, she was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame.
Major results
- 1993
- 1st
National XC Championships - 2nd
UEC European XC Championships - 1994
- 1st National XC Championships
- 2nd Overall UCI XC World Cup
- 1995
- 1st
UEC European XC Championships - 1st National XC Championships
- 1996
- 1st Overall Mountain Bike Tour of Britain
- 1st 6 Stages
- UCI XC World Cup
- 1997
- 1st National XC Championships
- UCI XC World Cup
- 1st Sankt Wendel
- 2nd Špindlerův Mlýn
- 1998
- 1st National CX Championships
- 2000
- 1st Stage 3 Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2nd Sea Otter TT
- 2001
- 1st Overall Sea Otter Classic
- 2nd Overall UCI XC World Cup
- 2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 3rd Durango
- 6th UCI World XC Championships
- 2002
- 1st National XC Championships
- UCI XC World Cup
- 2nd Houffalize
- 5th Cross-country, Commonwealth Games
- 7th La Flèche Wallonne
References
- ^ "Olympic Record: Caroline Alexander". British Olympic Association. Archived from the original on 25 February 2010. Retrieved 20 May 2008.
- Turnbull, Simon (6 July 1997). "Golden visions out of the blue". independent.co.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- Rob Burgess (19 September 2001). "British Cycling names World Road team". UK Sport.
- "GREAT BRITAIN CYCLING TEAM 2002 RESULTS". British Cycling. Archived from the original on 20 August 2004.
- "Scotland's cyclists selected for Commonwealth Games". Sport Scotland. 19 June 2002.
- "50 YEARS OF BRITISH CYCLING - THE NINETIES". Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- "50 Cycling Heroes Named in British Cycling's Hall of Fame". British Cycling. 17 December 2009. Archived from the original on 20 December 2009.
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- Living people
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- British female cyclists
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Barrow-in-Furness
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland
- 20th-century Scottish sportswomen
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