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

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and

2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

. 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 elev ...

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

Blue Mountains Grammar School , motto_translation = Through Effort To Higher Achievement , established = , type = Independent comprehensive co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day school , denomination = Anglican , slogan = , princi ...

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. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain Charles Napier Sturt, a British explorer ...

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), Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. Springwood is located 72 kilometres west of the Sydney CBD in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the City of Blu ...

. 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

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. 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 th ...

and the NSW Institute of Sport. Spratt competed at the 2004 World Junior Track Championships in the United States. She competed at the

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. 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 The Women's Tour of New Zealand is a stage race A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event. Usually, such a race c ...

. 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 2012 Summer Olympics 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

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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

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. 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 gold medal blank

Time trial ::1st gold medal blank

Points race : 2nd Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships :

UCI Junior Road World Championships UCI most commonly refers to: * University of California, Irvine, a public university in Irvine, California, United States * Union Cycliste Internationale, the world governing body for the sport of cycling UCI may also refer to: * Uganda Cancer ...

::3rd

Time trial ::9th

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;2005 : 2nd Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships ;2006 : 2nd Points race, National Junior Track Championships : 3rd bronze medal blank

Individual pursuit, Oceania Games ;2007 :

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::1st

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

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, 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 Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska (Tour de Feminin – Krásná Lípa) is a women's staged cycle race Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including ro ...

::1st Stage 1 : 4th Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT ;2012 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

::4th

: 3rd 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg : 4th Ronde van Gelderland : 7th

GP Comune di Cornaredo The GP Comune di Cornaredo is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Italy and is currently rated by the UCI as a 1.2 race. Past winners References Cycle races in Italy Women's road bicycle races Rec ...

: 9th

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and ...

;2013 : 3rd bronze medal blank

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 silver medal blank

: 4th Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT : 5th

, National Road Championships : 8th

Omloop van het Hageland The Omloop van het Hageland (Tielt-Winge) is an elite women's professional road bicycle race held since 2007 in Belgium. Originally a 1.2 rated race by the UCI, it is now a 1.1 category race. Before 2011 the race was a criterium of category 1.N ...

;2015 : 1st Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol : 3rd Overall Tour of Norway : 4th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt : 4th

Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race also known as Great Ocean Road Race or Cadel Road Race is an annual professional one-day road bicycle racing for both men and women starting and finishing in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and routed along ...

: 5th Overall

Tour Down Under The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 UCI World ...

: 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 (UCI) as a 1.2 race. In 2005 and 2012, the race was held as the Swiss National Ro ...

: 8th Crescent Vårgårda TTT : 9th Overall

;2016 : 1st MaillotAustralia

, National Road Championships : 1st

: 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

, National Road Championships : 5th Overall Giro d'Italia : 5th Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 5th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 6th La Course by Le Tour de France : 6th

: 8th

Strade Bianche The Strade Bianche is a road bicycle race in Tuscany, Central Italy, starting and finishing in Siena. First held in 2007, it is raced annually on the first or second Saturday of March. The name ''Strade Bianche'' (Italian for ''White Roads'') st ...

;2018 : 1st Jersey white

Overall

::1st Stage 4 : 1st Jersey orange

Overall

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

: 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 ''Monuments'' of the European professional ...

: 2nd Team time trial, Tour of Norway : 3rd Overall Giro Rosa ::1st Jersey green

Mountains classification ::1st Stage 6 : 3rd

: 4th

, 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. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...

: 5th

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: 6th Overall

Holland Ladies Tour The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons ...

: 7th

: 8th La Course by Le Tour de France ;2019 : 1st Jersey orange

Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 2nd

, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall

::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

: 3rd Overall Giro Rosa : 3rd

: 4th Overall Bay Classic Series ::1st Stage 1 : 5th Overall

Tour de Yorkshire The Tour de Yorkshire is a road cycling race in the historic county of Yorkshire, England which first took place in May 2015. It is promoted by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) and is rated as a 2.HC event as part of the UCI Europe Tour. ...

;2020 : 1st MaillotAustralia

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

::1st Stage 2 : 3rd

: 8th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria : 10th Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa ;2021 : 4th

: 9th

: 10th

;2022 : 8th Overall

Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. I ...

: 10th

;2023 : 2nd Overall

:: 1st Mountains classification : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships

References

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Personal

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Major results

See also

References

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