Amanda Spratt (born 17 September 1987) is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Spratt was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics. In 2012, 2016 and 2020 she won the Australian National Road Race Championships in Buninyong, Victoria. In 2018, she secured the silver medal in the

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in Innsbruck, Austria.

Personal

Spratt, nicknamed "Spratty", was born on 17 September 1987 in

Penrith, New South Wales Penrith is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located in Greater Western Sydney, 55 kilometres (31 mi) west of the Sydney central business district on the banks of the Nepean River, on the outskirts of the Cumberland Plain. Its elevati ...

, which is a suburb of Sydney. She went to Springwood Public School before going to

Blue Mountains Grammar School Blue Mountains Grammar School, abbreviated as BMGS, is a dual-campus independent Anglican comprehensive co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day school, located in the Blue Mountains suburbs of Wentworth Falls and Valley He ...

for high school. From 2007 to 2008, she attended

Charles Sturt University Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus public university located in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria, Australia, Victoria. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain (British Army and Royal ...

where she earned a University Certificate in Business. , she lived in

Springwood, New South Wales Springwood is a town in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. Springwood is located 72 kilometres west of the Sydney CBD in the local government area of the City of Blue Mountains. At the , Springwood had a population 8,423 people. ...

. Spratt is a member of the Riders Council of The Cyclists' Alliance.

Cycling

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Spratt raced in BMX events as a junior and competed in the BMX World Championships in Melbourne when she was 11. She began road and track racing when she was twelve years old. She has been coached by Martin Barras since 2009 and is also coached by Gary Sutton. 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. She is a member of the Penrith Cycling Club. She has held a cycling scholarship with the

Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...

and the NSW Institute of Sport. Spratt competed at the 2004 World Junior Track Championships in the United States. 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. 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. She finished second at the 2012 Jayco Bay Classic in Victoria, Australia. She finished fourth at the 2012 Ronde van Gelderland in the Netherlands. She was selected to represent Australia at the

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in the women's road race, her first Olympics. She finished outside the time limit. In 2018, Spratt elected to forgo a debut senior

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representation for Australia on the Gold Coast, to focus on an Ardennes campaign in Europe. She achieved her first ever one-day podium at World Tour or

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level, with a third placing at the Amstel Gold Race in April. Then in May, she won her first Women's World Tour race with a large enough leading margin to move up ten places on the final stage to also win the general classification at Emakumeen Euskal Bira. In 2021, Spratt was selected in the Australian team to compete in the road race at the Tokyo Olympics. Unfortunately, she was unable to finish in her event, the Women's Road Race, in very trying conditions.

Major results

;2004 :

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::1st Road race ::1st Time trial ::1st Points race : 2nd Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships : UCI Junior Road World Championships ::3rd Time trial ::9th Road race ;2005 : 2nd Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships ;2006 : 2nd Points race, National Junior Track Championships : 3rd Individual pursuit, Oceania Games ;2007 : National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Team pursuit ::2nd Individual pursuit ::3rd Points race : 2nd

Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...

, National Under-23 Road Championships ;2008 : 1st MaillotAustralia

, National Under-23 Road Championships ;2010 : 8th Overall Tour of New Zealand ;2011 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska ::1st Stage 1 : 4th Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT ;2012 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Road race ::4th

: 3rd 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg : 4th Ronde van Gelderland : 7th GP Comune di Cornaredo : 9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad ;2013 : 3rd

Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...

: 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT : 4th Trofeo Alfredo Binda : 6th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt : 7th EPZ Omloop van Borsele : 8th Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs ;2014 : 2nd

: 4th Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT : 5th Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Omloop van het Hageland ;2015 : 1st Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol : 3rd Overall Tour of Norway : 4th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt : 4th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 5th Overall

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: 6th

SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn The SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn is a women's one-day road bicycle race held in Switzerland. Between 2015 and 2019, it was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale The Union Cycliste Internationale (; UCI; ) is the world governing body for s ...

: 8th Crescent Vårgårda TTT : 9th Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira ;2016 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt ::1st Stage 6 : 5th Overall The Women's Tour : 6th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 7th Overall

: 7th Crescent Vårgårda ;2017 : 1st Jersey blue

Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 5th Overall

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: 5th Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira ::1st Stage 2 : 5th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 6th

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: 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 8th

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;2018 : 1st Jersey white

Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Jersey orange

Overall

::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 3 : 1st

: 2nd

Road race,

: 2nd

Liège–Bastogne–Liège Liège–Bastogne–Liège , also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Cycling monument, Monuments'' of the Eur ...

: 2nd Team time trial, Tour of Norway : 3rd Overall

Giro Rosa The is an annual women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage race around Italy. First held in 1988, the race is currently part of the UCI Women's WorldTour, UCI Women's World Tour, and is currently organised by RCS Sport, the organisers of the men' ...

::1st

Mountains classification ::1st Stage 6 : 3rd Amstel Gold Race : 4th Road race, National Road Championships : 4th Trofeo Alfredo Binda : 5th

La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...

: 5th

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: 6th Overall Holland Ladies Tour : 7th

: 8th

;2019 : 1st Jersey orange

Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Overall

Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annuall ...

: 2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda : 2nd Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Road race,

: 3rd Overall

: 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 4th Overall Bay Classic Series ::1st Stage 1 : 5th Overall Tour de Yorkshire ;2020 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 1 Bay Classic Series : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 8th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 10th Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa ;2021 : 4th Amstel Gold Race : 9th

: 10th

;2022 : 8th Overall

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: 10th

;2023 : 2nd Overall

:: 1st Mountains classification : 2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 2nd Trofeo Oro : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Setmana Ciclista-Volta Comunitat Valenciana Fèmines ;2024 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) La Vuelta Femenina : 4th Overall Women's Tour Down Under : 9th Road race, National Road Championships ;2025 : 7th Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Overall Women's Tour Down Under

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