Kathy Watt

Kathryn Watts ( born September 11, 1964), named Kathy, is an Australian cyclist.

Career

In the Olympic road race in Barcelona in 1992, she surprised the competition and won here the first Australian Olympic gold medal ever in road cycling. Your silver medal in the individual pursuit, a few days later confirmed its unique position and made it the most successful up to that Australian cyclists at the Olympic Games. At the 1995 World Championships in Colombia, she won the first Australian bronze medal in the individual time trial.

Despite recurring quarrels with the Australian Association of the former track and field athlete dared a comeback and won at the Commonwealth Games in March 2006 with 41 years, the silver medal in the individual time trial (and thus their fourth medal since 1990) and qualified once again for the World Championships in Salzburg in September, 2006.

In her long career, she interrupted the meantime, to work as a photojournalist, she won 24 Australian Championships.

Palmarčs

2006

  • Commonwealth Games Time Trial - 2nd place
  • Australian Open Individual Time Trial - 1st place

2005

  • Chrono Champenois - 1st place
  • GP International Feminine Brittany - 2nd place
  • Thuringia Tour - stage win

1999

  • Tour de ' Toona - 2nd place and a stage win

1998

  • Time Trial World Championship - 6th place
  • GP des Nations time trial - 2nd place
  • Tour de Bretagne Feminin - 2nd place and a stage win
  • Grazia Tour - 2nd place and a stage win
  • GP Presov and Pravda - 1st place and win in the individual time trial

Before 1998

  • Road Race - 1st place
  • Tracking - 2nd place
Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics Monique Knol Sara Carrigan Nicole Cooke Marianne Vos List of Olympic medalists in cycling (women) Tracey Gaudry Anna Millward Katherine Bates Alex Rhodes (cyclist) Amanda Spratt Gracie Elvin
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