Annette Edmondson
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. 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 and 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] where she remained until the team disbanded at the end of the 2018 season.
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. She is fluent in Indonesian.[2]
Edmondson has two brothers, with Alex also being a member of the Australian track cycling team.[3]
Palmarès
Track
- 2007
- Oceania Junior Track Championships
- 1st
Individual sprint - 1st
Team sprint (with Chloe Hosking) - 1st
Scratch race
- 1st
- 3rd Keirin, Oceania Track Championships
- 2008
- National Junior Track Championships
- 1st
500m Time Trial - 1st
Individual sprint - 1st
Keirin
- 1st
- 2nd Sprint, World Junior Track Championships
- 3rd Team Sprint, National Track Championships
- 2009
- National Junior Track Championships
- 1st
Individual sprint - 1st
Scratch race - 1st
500m Time Trial - 2nd Keirin
- 1st
- 3rd Keirin, World Junior Track Championships
- 2010
- National Track Championships
- 2nd Team sprint
- 2nd Keirin
- 2nd 500m Time Trial
- 3rd Individual sprint
- 2011
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Omnium - 1st
Scratch race - 3rd Team Pursuit
- 1st
- 2012
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Individual pursuit - 1st
Points race - 2nd
Scratch race
- 1st
- UCI World Track Championships
- 2nd
Team Pursuit - 2nd
Omnium
- 2nd
- 3rd Omnium, Olympic Games
- 2013
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st
Points race - 1st
Omnium - 2nd
Team Pursuit
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Omnium - 1st
Individual pursuit - 1st
Points race - 1st
Scratch race
- 1st
- 1st 6 Giorni delle Rose Omnium
- 1st Invercargill Scratch race
- UCI World Track Championships
- 2nd
Team pursuit - 3rd
Individual pursuit - 3rd
Omnium
- 2nd
- 2014
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st
Individual Pursuit - 1st
Omnium
- 1st
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st
Scratch race - 2nd
Individual pursuit
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Scratch race - 1st
Points race - 1st
Omnium - 1st
Madison )(with Jessica Mundy) - 2nd
Individual pursuit - 3rd
Team pursuit
- 1st
- UCI World Track Championships
- 3rd
Team pursuit - 3rd
Omnium
- 3rd
- 2015
- UCI World Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit - 1st
Omnium
- 1st
- 1st
Omnium, Oceania Track Championships - 1st Omnium, South Australian Grand Prix
- 1st Omnium, Super Drome Cup
- 1st Madison, Austral (with Julie Leth)
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Madison (with Jessica Mundy) - 2nd
Individual Pursuit - 2nd
Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2016
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit (with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Amy Cure and Alexandra Manly) - 1st
Madison (with Amy Cure)
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 2018
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st
Team Pursuit (with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Amy Cure and Alexandra Manly) - 3rd
Individual Pursuit
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st
Team Pursuit (with Breanna Hargrave, Alexandra Manly, and Maeve Plouffe) - 2nd Madison (with Alexandra Manly)
- 1st
- 2019
- UCI World Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 1st
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[5]
- 2016
- 1st Stage 2 Santos Women's Tour[6]
- 2017
- 1st Pajot Hills Classic[7]
- 2018
- 1st Stage 1 Santos Women's Tour
- 1st Towards Zero Race Melbourne
References
- "Edmonson signs for Wiggle-Honda". cyclingnews.com. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- "Annette Edmondson". Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- "Australia's silver siblings Annette and Alex Edmondson step up at Commonwealth Games". The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). 25 July 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- "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.
- "Nettie Edmondson takes powerful sprint victory in Pajot Hills Classic".
External links
- Official website
- Annette Edmondson at Cycling Archives
- Annette Edmondson at ProCyclingStats
- Annette Edmondson at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)