Chloe Hosking (born 1 October 1990) is Australian professional racing cyclist. She holds the record for the most professional wins for an Australian woman with 39 professional wins in her career.[4] Hosking has represented Australia at junior and then senior levels since 2007. Following success in a number of international events she turned professional in 2010. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race,[5] and won the women's road race at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
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Born | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia | 1 October 1990||||||||
Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)[1] | ||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||
Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||
Amateur teams | |||||||||
2004–2008 | Canberra Cycling Club | ||||||||
2009 | Moving Ladies | ||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||
2010–2012 | Team HTC–Columbia Women | ||||||||
2013–2014 | Team Hitec Products | ||||||||
2015–2016 | Wiggle–Honda | ||||||||
2017–2019 | Alé–Cipollini[2] | ||||||||
2020 | Rally Cycling[3] | ||||||||
2021–2022 | Trek–Segafredo | ||||||||
2023 | Roxsolt Liv SRAM | ||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||
Australian National Criterium Championships Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta (2019) Tour of Guangxi Women's WorldTour (2019) Stage 1 Giro d'Italia Femminile (2019) Commonwealth Games (2018) Stage 3 The Women's Tour (2017) La Course by Le Tour de France (2016) Tour of Chongming Island (2009, 2016) Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo (2012) | |||||||||
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Personal life
editChildhood and early life
editHosking was born in Bendigo, Victoria, and moved to the suburb of Campbell in the Australian Capital Territory.[5] As a child she played field hockey and did rock climbing at a national level, however following an injury she asked her father, a keen cyclist, to help get her into cycling.[6] She began cycling competitively in 2002 at the age of twelve,[6] and first represented Australia in 2007 at the age of seventeen.[5]
Hosking started as a track cyclist, but changed her focus to road racing events in 2007.[7] She now specialises in road cycling events, being a strong sprinter and a capable climber.[6]
Outside of cycling Hosking is a student, having completed a Bachelor of Communications degree at Griffith University specialising in journalism.[8] Hosking is currently studying a Professional Doctorate in Law, to graduate as a Juris Doctor.[8]
Hosking is married to Jack Lindsay.[9]
HOSKING Bikes
editChloe Hosking is the founder of HOSKING Bikes, the first bike brand in the world founded by a female professional road racing cyclist.
Cycling career
edit2004-2009: Early years
editHosking competed in her first national cycling events in 2004, and began representing Australia in international events in 2007. As a junior Hosking competed for the Canberra Cycling Club, mainly riding in track cycling events and achieving considerable success, including winning the Women's Under 19 Scratch race at the 2008 Australian National Track Championships.[5] Despite this success on the track, in 2007 she shifted her focus to road cycling events. Over the next couple of years she would become a road racing specialist,[10] with an emphasis on sprint challenges in bunch finishes to races.[7]
In 2008 Hosking rode for Australia in the Women's road race at the UCI Juniors Road World Championships in South Africa where she placed 37th.[5] In 2009, she relocated to Europe to ride competitively for the Moving Ladies club in the Netherlands, and by the end of the year she had been signed by top professional team Team HTC–Columbia Women.[7][10] Shortly afterwards, she was the first Team HTC–Columbia Women rider to win a 2010 event, with a victory at the Australian National Criterium Championships.[10]
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, Hosking won the bronze medal in the Women's road race.[5] It was revealed after the event that the Australian team of six riders was under orders to ride for a victory for Hosking in the 112-kilometre (70-mile) event in preference to veteran Australian cyclist Rochelle Gilmore, however in the final sprint for the line Gilmore came out with the gold medal ahead of English rider Lizzie Armitstead in second, leaving Hosking in third.[11] At the end of the 2010 season Hosking was ranked 52nd in the world on the UCI elite women's rankings, and was younger than any of the riders ranked above her.[12]
Professional career
editShe competed in the women's road race at the 2012 Olympic Games, but finished outside the time limit.[13] She finished in 26th place in the road race at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[14]
In October 2014 Wiggle–Honda confirmed that Hosking would join them in 2015 after she had spent the previous two seasons with Team Hitec Products.[15] Her 2015 season was shortened by a hand injury in July.[16]
In 2018, she won the women's road race at the Commonwealth Games.[16]
In October 2020, Hosking signed a two-year contract with the Trek–Segafredo team, from the 2021 season.[17]
Major results
edit- 2007
- Oceania Junior Track Championships
- National Junior Track Championships
- 3rd Keirin
- 3rd Scratch
- 4th Time trial, Oceania Junior Road Championships
- 2008
- National Junior Track Championships
- 2009
- 1st Overall Tour of Chongming Island
- 1st Women's International Cup
- 1st GP Sankomij Veldhoven
- 3rd Overall Bay Classic Series
- 3rd Sparkassen Giro Bochum
- 4th Grand Prix Stad Roeselare
- 6th Omloop van Borsele
- 8th Road race, Oceania Road Championships
- 2010
- 1st Under-23 race, National Criterium Championships
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Merco Cycling Classic
- 2nd Grand Prix Stad Roeselare
- 3rd Road race, Commonwealth Games
- 3rd Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix
- 1st Sprints classification
- 1st Stages 2 & 4
- 8th Sparkassen Giro
- 8th Omloop van Borsele
- 2011
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Chongming Island
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Trophée d'Or Féminin
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
- 4th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
- 1st Young rider classification
- 4th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
- 5th Liberty Classic
- 6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 9th Sparkassen Giro
- 10th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar
- 2012
- 1st Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo
- 1st Halle-Buizingen
- 1st Stage 5 La Route de France
- 4th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup
- 5th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar
- 7th Novilon Eurocup
- 7th Grand Prix Stad Roeselare
- 9th Classica Citta di Padova
- 2013
- 1st Stage 5 Holland Ladies Tour
- 2nd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar
- 2nd Overall Tour of Chongming Island
- 3rd Ronde van Gelderland
- 4th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
- 4th EPZ Omloop van Borsele
- 7th Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo
- 7th Sparkassen Giro Bochum
- 2014
- 1st Omloop van Borsele
- 1st Stage 2 Bay Classic Series
- 3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar
- 6th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik
- 8th Overall Belgium Tour
- 1st Stage 3
- 9th Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo
- 2015
- 1st Overall Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Marianne Vos Classic
- 1st La Classique Morbihan
- 2nd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar
- 2nd Novilon Eurocup Ronde van Drenthe
- 2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies
- 3rd Gent–Wevelgem
- 4th Le Samyn des Dames
- 5th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
- 9th Omloop van het Hageland
- 2016
- 1st Overall Tour of Chongming Island
- 1st La Course by Le Tour de France
- 1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite
- 1st Stage 3 Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st Stage 3 La Route de France
- 2nd Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta
- 4th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 6th Acht van Westerveld
- 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 9th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar
- 1st Stage 4
- 2017
- 1st Drentse Acht van Westerveld
- Women's Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 3 The Women's Tour
- 2nd Omloop van het Hageland
- 2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies
- 3rd Overall Tour of Chongming Island
- 6th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
- 1st Stage 2
- 6th Road race, Crescent Vårgårda
- 7th Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta
- 8th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 10th Ronde van Drenthe
- 2018
- 1st Road race, Commonwealth Games
- 1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 1st Stage 4 Women's Tour Down Under
- 2nd Omloop van het Hageland
- 2nd Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
- 3rd Overall Women's Herald Sun Tour
- 3rd Drentse Acht van Westerveld
- 3rd Ronde van Drenthe
- 4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 4th RideLondon Classique
- 9th Overall Tour of Chongming Island
- 2019
- 1st Tour of Guangxi Women's WorldTour
- 1st Stage 4 Women's Tour Down Under
- Women's Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stage 2 Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta
- 1st Stage 2 Bay Classic Series
- 4th Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden
- 10th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
- 1st Stage 1
- 10th Overall Giro delle Marche in Rosa
- 10th Drentse Acht van Westerveld
- 2020
- National Road Championships
- 1st Overall Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stages 2 & 3
- 1st Grand Prix International d'Isbergues
- 1st Stage 7 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 5th Overall Women's Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 1
- 5th Race Torquay
- 6th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2021
- 1st Stage 4 Ladies Tour of Norway
- 1st Stage 3 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 3rd Le Samyn
- 4th Grand Prix International d'Isbergues
- 4th Drentse Acht van Westerveld
- 7th Classic Brugge–De Panne
- 2022
- 6th Scheldeprijs
- 2nd Bloeizone Fryslân Tour
References
edit- ^ "London 2012 – Chloe Hosking". london2012.olympics.com.au. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ^ "Ale Cipollini complete 2019 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 17 November 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
- ^ "Rally Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ "ProCyclingStats Career Overview - Chloe Hosking". ProCyclingStats. 25 February 2024. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f "Chloe Hosking". Cycling Australia Official Website. Cycling Australia. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ^ a b c Hazen, Bart (29 April 2009). "Interview: Chloe Hosking". Daily Peloton. Pro Cycling News. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ^ a b c Clarke, Les (30 November 2009). "Columbia-HTC's latest Australian signing: Chloe Hosking". cyclingnews.com. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ^ a b "cbr sports awards". cbrsportawards.com.au. ACT Government. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ "Leader of the Pack – Chloe Hosking's comeback". Cyclry. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ a b c "Chloe Hosking (20)". Official Website. Team HTC–Columbia Women. Archived from the original on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ^ Lane, Samantha (10 October 2010). "Tactics shift lets Gilmore grab glory". Brisbane Times. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ^ "Ranking – Cycling – Road 2010: Women – Elite – UCI – Ranking – Individual: Final result". UCI World Rankings. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- ^ "Chloe Hosking Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 December 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Women's Road Race". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "Wiggle-Honda bolsters squad with Hosking signing". cyclingnews.com. 28 October 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ^ a b "Cycling Road | Athlete Profile: Chloe HOSKING - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". results.gc2018.com. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "Trek-Segafredo announces three new signings". Trek–Segafredo. Trek Bicycle Corporation. 12 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
Amalie Dideriksen, Chloe Hosking and Shirin van Anrooij will join Trek-Segafredo Women's team next season, each signing a two-year contract.
External links
edit- Chloe Hosking at UCI
- Chloe Hosking at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Chloe Hosking at ProCyclingStats
- Chloe Hosking at CQ Ranking
- Chloe Hosking at CycleBase
- Chloe Hosking at Olympedia (archive)
- Chloe Hosking at Olympics.com
- Chloe Hosking at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Chloe Hosking at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived) (2010)
- Chloe Hosking at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived) (2014)
- Chloe Hosking at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Chloe Hosking at Commonwealth Games Australia
- Chloe Hosking at High Road Sports at the Wayback Machine (archived 17 December 2010)
- Chloe Hosking at Specialized-lululemon at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 August 2012)