Amanda Spratt
![]() Amanda Spratt at the 2016 Rio Olympics Road Race
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Personal information | |
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Nickname | Spratty |
Born | Penrith, New South Wales |
17 September 1987
Height | 161 cm (5 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Mitchelton–Scott |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Amateur team(s) | |
- | Penrith Cycling Club |
Professional team(s) | |
2012- | Orica-AIS[1] |
Major wins | |
One day races & Classics
Stage races
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Amanda Spratt (born 17 September 1987) is an Australian road cyclist. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's road race, in which she finished outside the time limit. In 2016, she won the Australian national road race championships in Bunninyong Victoria, making her the Australian national champion.
Personal[edit]
Nicknamed Spratty, Spratt was born on 17 September 1987 in Penrith, New South Wales, which is a suburb of Sydney. She went to Springwood Public School before going to Blue Mountains Grammar School for high school.[2] From 2007 to 2008, she attended Charles Sturt University where she earned a University Certificate in Business. As of 2012[update], she lives in Springwood, New South Wales.[3][4][5][6]
Spratt is 161 centimetres (63 in) tall and weighs 55 kilograms (121 lb).[7]
Cycling[edit]
Spratt is a road cyclist who began competitive cycling when she was twelve years old. She has been coached by Martin Barras since 2009 and is also coached by Gary Sutton.[7] Her primary training base is in Australia's Blue Mountains region, with a secondary training base in Varase, Italy where she lives eight months a year.[4] She is a member of the Penrith Cycling Club. She cycles professionally for Team Jayco AIS.[2][3][5][6] She has held a cycling scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport and the NSW Institute of Sport.[2][7]
Her first international race was at the 2004 World Junior Track Championships in the United States.[2] She competed at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games. She competed at the 2004 Junior Road World Championships in Italy. She missed most of the 2009 cycling season because of a back injury. She competed at the 2010 UCI Road World Championships.[3] She finished eleventh at the 2011 Giro di Toscana Femminile in Italy. She finished fourth at the 2011 Sweden World Cup teams time trial in Vårgårda, Sweden. She finished first at the 2011 Tour de Feminine Krasna Lipa in the Czech Republic. She finished eighth at the 2011 Women's Tour of New Zealand. She finished first in the road race and fourth in the individual time trial at the 2012 Australia Road National Championships in Buninyong, Australia.[6] She finished second at the 2012 Jayco Bay Classic in Victoria, Australia.[5] She finished fourth at the 2012 Ronde van Gelderland in the Netherlands. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's road race, her first Olympics.[4][7] She finished outside the time limit.[8]
In 2018, Spratt elected to forgo a debut senior Commonwealth Games representation for Australia on the Gold Coast, to focus on an Ardennes campaign in Europe.[9] She achieved her first ever one-day podium at World Tour or World Cup level, with a third placing at the Amstel Gold Race.
Major results[edit]
- 2004
- Commonwealth Youth Games[10]
- 2nd
U19 Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
- 3rd
Junior Time Trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2007
- Australian National Track Championships
- 2nd
U23 Time Trial, Australian National Time Trial Championships
- 2010
- 6th National Road Race Championships
- 8th Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand
- 2011
- 1st
Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
- 1st Stage 1
- 4th Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
- 10th National Road Race Championships
- 2012
- National Road Championships
- 3rd 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
- 4th Ronde van Gelderland
- 7th GP Comune di Cornaredo
- 9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2013
- 3rd UCI Road World Championships, TTT
- 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
- 4th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 6th Overall Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 7th National Time Trial Championships
- 7th Omloop van Borsele
- 8th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs
- 2014
- 2nd UCI Road World Championships, TTT
- 4th Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
- National Road Championships
- 5th Road Race
- 7th Time Trial
- 8th Omloop van het Hageland
- 2015
- 1st Giro del Trentino Alto Adige - Südtirol
- 3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
- 4th Overall Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 6th SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn
- 7th UCI Road World Championships, TTT
- 8th Crescent Women World Cup Vargarda TTT
- 9th Overall Emakumeen Bira
- 2016
- 1st
National Road Race Championships
- 1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 2nd Overall Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 5th Overall The Women's Tour
- 6th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
- 7th Overall Women's Tour Down Under
- 7th Crescent Women World Cup Vargarda
- 2017
- 1st
Overall Women's Tour Down Under
- 2nd National Road Race Championships
- 5th Overall Giro Rosa
- 5th Overall Emakumeen Bira
- 1st Stage 2
- 5th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
- 6th La Course by Le Tour de France
- 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 8th Strade Bianche
- 2018
- 1st
Overall Women's Tour Down Under
- 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd Amstel Gold Race
- 4th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 4th National Road Race Championships
- 5th Flèche Wallonne
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Amanda Spratt". GreenEDGE. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Amanda Spratt". Cycling Australia. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ a b c "Amanda Spratt". Team Jayco AIS. Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ a b c Georgakopoulos, Chris. "Amanda Spratt set to take it up a gear in London". Penrith Press. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ a b c Cleggett, Michael (6 June 2012). "Springwood cyclist Amanda Spratt eyes off Olympic berth". Blue Mountains Gazette. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ a b c Cleggett, Michael (11 January 2012). "Springwood cyclist Amanda Spratt seals national road title". Blue Mountains Gazette. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ a b c d "London 2012 - Amanda Spratt". Australia: Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ^ "Women's Road Race: Results". london2012.com. 29 July 2012.
- ^ Smith, Sophie (3 January 2018). "Spratt sacrifices Comm Games glory for Ardennes campaign". Cycling Central. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ "Cycling Results". 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
External links[edit]
- Amanda Spratt profile at GreenEDGE Cycling website