Caitlin Ward
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Caitlin Ward (born 1 February 1994) is an Australian track cyclist who has been selected for the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Personal
[edit | edit source]Caitlin Ward was born in Frankston, Victoria, on 1 February 1994. She has a master's degree in Physiotherapy from Flinders University in Adelaide.[1] She runs track sessions for AusCycling in South Australia and co-owns JKT Coaching.[2]
Cycling
[edit | edit source]Ward became interested in cycling after participating in the Around the Bay in a Day in 2005 and the Great Victorian Bike Ride in 2006 when she was in the fifth grade at primary school.[1][3]
She was sidelined between 2015 and 2018 with a series of injuries including glandular fever and a broken ankle after a gym accident in which it was crushed by a 250 kilogram leg press,[4] but she came back to win the women's sprint and keirin at the Australian national titles in 2019.[5] She represented Australia at the 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Brisbane but missed out on selection for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[1]
In 2022, Ward became the sighted pilot for blind Paralympian Jessica Gallagher at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where they won gold in the tandem B sprint and tandem time trial B at London's Lee Valley VeloPark. At the 2023 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Glasgow the following year they won silver medals in both events.[1] At the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in March 2024, they won bronze in the tandem B Sprint and the 1 km time trial.[6][7]
Ward was selected as pilot for Gallager at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris,[8] where they won silver in the Women's B 1000m Time Trial.[9]
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- 1994 births
- Living people
- Australian female cyclists
- Australian track cyclists
- Paralympic cyclists for Australia
- Paralympic sighted guides
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games cyclists for Australia
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists from Melbourne
- Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Paralympic medalists in cycling
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in cycling