Meg Lemon (born 5 October 1989) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics where she won a bronze medal.[1]
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 October 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | C4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Port Adelaide Cycling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal edit
Lemon was born on 5 October 1989.[2] She attended Sacred Heart College in Adelaide, South Australia. Lemon has a bachelor's degree, Nutrition and Dietetics from Flinders University and works as a sports dietitian. Lemon sustained a brain injury when hit by a car while riding to work and left her with a weakened right side of her body.[3]
Cycling edit
Lemon is classified as a C4 cyclist. In her international debut at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles, United States, she finished fourth in the Women's C4-C5 Scratch Race.[4]
In September 2017, at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Lemon won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Women's Road Race C4.[5] At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Pursuit C4 and was ninth in Women's Scratch Race C4-5 and Women's 500 m Time Trial C4. At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Maniago, Italy she won the bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial C4 and finished fourth in the Women's Road Race C4.[6]
In 2018, Lemon was a South Australian Institute of Sport scholarship athlete.
At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she won the silver medal in the Women's Scratch Race C4 and the bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4.[7]
At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Emmen, Netherlands, she won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Road Race C4.[8]
At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Milton, Ontario, she won the silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4.[9]
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Lemon won the bronze medal in the Women's Road Time Trial C4 with a time of 41:14.42 and finished fourth in Women's Individual Pursuit C4, ninth together with Amanda Reid and Gordon Allan in the Mixed Team Sprint C1–5 and eighth in Women's Road Race C4-5.[10]
Lemon won the silver medal in the Women's Road Race C4 at 2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Baie-Comeau.[11]
At the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, she won two bronze medals - Women's Pursuit C4 and Women's Scratch Race C4.[12]
References edit
- ^ "World And Paralympic Champions Feature Among Tokyo-Bound Para-Cyclists". Paralympics Australia. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Meg Lemon". Cycling Australia website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
- ^ Whelan, Melanie (3 January 2018). "Same mission: para-cyclists hungry for national crown in Ballarat". The Courier News. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- ^ "SA riders shine at Para-cycling world titles in LA". SASI website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
- ^ "Hicks, Lemon announce arrival on world stage". SASI website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
- ^ "2018 UCI Para-cycling World Championships". UCI website. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ "Para pursuit perfection- Petricola on top of the world". Australian Cycling Team website. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- ^ "2019 World Para Cycling Road Championships". Votrecourse.com/. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ "Australia secure eight world titles at 2020 Para-cycling Track World Championships". Cycling Australia website. 3 February 2020. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Australian Paralympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
- ^ "2022 UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships Official Results" (PDF). RSSTiming. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ "Results - UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships". UCI. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
External links edit
- Meg Lemon at the International Paralympic Committee
- Meg Lemon at Paralympics Australia
- Meg Lemon at Cycling Australia (archived)