Chloe Hosking (born 1 October 1990) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Hosking has represented Australia at junior and then senior levels since 2007. Following success in a number of international events she turned professional in 2010. She competed at the

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in the Women's road race, and won the women's road race at the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

Personal life

Childhood and early life

Hosking was born in

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, Victoria, and moved to the suburb of Campbell in the Australian Capital Territory. As a child she played field hockey and did

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at a national level, however following an injury she asked her father, a keen cyclist, to help get her into cycling. She began cycling competitively in 2002 at the age of twelve, and first represented Australia in 2007 at the age of seventeen. Hosking started as a

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, but changed her focus to

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events in 2007. She now specialises in road cycling events, being a strong sprinter and a capable climber. Outside of cycling Hosking is a

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, having completed a Bachelor of Communications degree at Griffith University specialising in journalism. Hosking is currently studying a Professional Doctorate in Law, to graduate as a

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Family

Hosking is married to Jack Lindsay, whom she met while in primary school in Canberra. Lindsay, an experienced executive and entrepreneur resigned from his position of General Manager at a technology company and moved to Europe in 2021 to return to semi-professional field hockey. The couple were married at Parlour in Canberra near the Nishi building on 7 February 2018, surrounded by a small group of close friends and family

Cycling career

2004-2009: Early years

Hosking competed in her first national cycling events in 2004, and began representing Australia in international events in 2007. As a junior Hosking competed for the ''

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Cycling Club'', mainly riding in track cycling events and achieving considerable success, including winning the Women's Under 19 Scratch race at the 2008 Australian National Track Championships. Despite this success on the track, in 2007 she shifted her focus to road cycling events. Over the next couple of years she would become a road racing specialist, with an emphasis on

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challenges in bunch finishes to races. In 2008 Hosking rode for Australia in the Women's road race at the UCI Juniors Road World Championships in South Africa where she placed 37th. In 2009, she relocated to Europe to ride competitively for the ''Moving Ladies'' club in the Netherlands, and by the end of the year she had been signed by top professional team . Shortly afterwards, she was the first rider to win a 2010 event, with a victory at the Australian National Criterium Championships. At the

2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ...

in Delhi, India, Hosking won the

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in the Women's road race. It was revealed after the event that the Australian team of six riders was under orders to ride for a victory for Hosking in the event in preference to veteran Australian cyclist

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, however in the final sprint for the line Gilmore came out with the

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ahead of English rider Lizzie Armitstead in second, leaving Hosking in third. At the end of the 2010 season Hosking was ranked 52nd in the world on the UCI elite women's rankings, and was younger than any of the riders ranked above her.

Professional career

She competed in the women's road race at the 2012 Olympic Games, but finished outside the time limit. She finished in 26th place in the road race at the

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. In October 2014 confirmed that Hosking would join them in 2015 after she had spent the previous two seasons with . Her 2015 season was shortened by a hand injury in July. In 2018, she won the women's road race at the Commonwealth Games. In October 2020, Hosking signed a two-year contract with the team, from the 2021 season.

Major results

;2007 : Oceania Junior Track Championships ::2nd Silver medal blank

Sprint ::3rd Bronze medal blank

500m time trial ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Scratch : National Junior Track Championships ::3rd Keirin ::3rd Scratch : 4th Time trial, Oceania Junior Road Championships ;2008 : National Junior Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Scratch ::3rd Points race ;2009 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour of Chongming Island ::1st Jersey green

Sprints classification ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 1st Women's International Cup : 1st GP Sankomij Veldhoven : 3rd Overall

Bay Classic Series The Bay Classic Series (currently running as the Lexus of Blackburn Bay Crits) is a road cycling race held annually in and around Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Australia. The race consists of both a men's and a women's competition over three stage ...

: 3rd Sparkassen Giro Bochum : 4th Grand Prix Stad Roeselare : 6th Omloop van Borsele : 8th Road race,

Oceania Road Championships The Oceania Road Championships are a series of road cycling races held annually to determine the Oceanian champion in each event. The event has been held since 1995 and consists of an elite and under-23 men's and an elite women's road race and ...

;

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: 1st

Under-23 race, National Criterium Championships : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Merco Cycling Classic : 2nd Grand Prix Stad Roeselare : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Road race, Commonwealth Games : 3rd Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix ::1st Sprints classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 8th

Sparkassen Giro The Sparkassen Giro Bochum is a road bicycle race which is annually held for both men's and women's around an urban circuit in the German city of Bochum, Germany. Since 2005 the men's race is part of the UCI Europe Tour, being organised as 1 ...

: 8th Omloop van Borsele ;

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: 1st Stage 3 Tour of Chongming Island : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT) Trophée d'Or Féminin : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini The Giro Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini is annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race held in Italy since 1995. During the 2013 race, 63 of the 112 riders refused to compete in the fourth and final stage of the race ...

: 4th Overall Holland Ladies Tour ::1st Young rider classification : 4th

7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg The 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg ( en, 7-villages circuit Aalburg; also known as the Rabobank 7-Dorpenomloop van Aalburg due to sponsorship reasons and the Dorpenomloop Wijk en Aalburg) was an elite women's road bicycle race held in and around Aalburg, ...

: 5th Liberty Classic : 6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 9th

: 10th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar ;

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: 1st

Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo Ronde van Drenthe ( en, Tour of Drenthe) is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drenthe, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union. Since 1998 there is also a women's event, k ...

: 1st

Halle-Buizingen Halle-Buizingen was a women's one-day cycle race which took place in Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlan ...

: 1st Stage 5 La Route de France : 4th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup : 5th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification : 7th Novilon Eurocup : 7th Grand Prix Stad Roeselare : 9th

Classica Citta di Padova Classica Citta di Padova was a women's one-day cycle race which took place in Italy and was ranked by the UCI as 1.1 in 2013 and 1.2 in 2012 having been Nationally ranked in previous seasons. Previous winners References Women's road bic ...

;2013 : 1st Stage 5 Holland Ladies Tour : 2nd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Overall Tour of Chongming Island ::1st Jersey green

Sprints classification : 3rd Ronde van Gelderland : 4th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup : 4th EPZ Omloop van Borsele : 7th

: 7th Sparkassen Giro Bochum ;2014 : 1st Omloop van Borsele : 1st Stage 2

: 3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar : 6th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik : 8th Overall Belgium Tour ::1st Stage 3 : 9th

;2015 : 1st Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 1st Marianne Vos Classic : 1st

La Classique Morbihan La Classique Morbihan is a women's one-day cycle race which takes place in France and is currently rated by the UCI as category 1.1, having been rated 1.2 in 2015. It is held as the first race of the Grand Prix Morbihan weekend in Grand-Champ ...

: 2nd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar : 2nd Novilon Eurocup Ronde van Drenthe : 2nd

Grand Prix de Dottignies The Grand Prix de Dottignies is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Belgium and is currently rated by the UCI as a 1.2 race. Past winners References Cycle races in Belgium Women's roa ...

: 3rd Gent–Wevelgem : 4th Le Samyn des Dames : 5th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup : 9th

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 ...

;2016 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour of Chongming Island ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Jersey white dots on red

Mountains classification ::1st Stage 2 : 1st La Course by Le Tour de France : 1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite : 1st Stage 3 Giro d'Italia Femminile : 1st Stage 3 La Route de France : 2nd Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta : 4th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 6th Acht van Westerveld : 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 9th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar ::1st Stage 4 ;2017 : 1st Drentse Acht van Westerveld : Women's Tour Down Under ::1st Jersey green

Sprints classification ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Stage 3 The Women's Tour : 2nd

: 2nd

: 3rd Overall Tour of Chongming Island ::1st Jersey green

Points classification : 6th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway ::1st Stage 2 : 6th Road race, Crescent Vårgårda : 7th Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta : 8th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 10th Ronde van Drenthe ;2018 : 1st Gold medal blank

Road race, Commonwealth Games : 1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 1st Stage 4 Women's Tour Down Under : 2nd

: 2nd Three Days of Bruges–De Panne : 3rd Overall Women's Herald Sun Tour ::1st Jersey green

Points classification : 3rd Drentse Acht van Westerveld : 3rd Ronde van Drenthe : 4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 4th

RideLondon Classique RideLondon Classique is a women's cycle stage race held in Essex and London for the UCI Women's World Tour. Part of the RideLondon cycling festival, the race was originally held as a one-day race in central London, and became a stage race in 202 ...

: 9th Overall Tour of Chongming Island ;2019 : 1st Tour of Guangxi Women's WorldTour : 1st Stage 4 Women's Tour Down Under : Women's Herald Sun Tour ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 2 Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta : 1st Stage 2

: 4th Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden : 10th Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 10th Overall

Giro delle Marche in Rosa Giro delle Marche in Rosa is a multi-day women's road cycling race held in Italy. The first edition was held in 2019 as a 2.2 The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body in the sport of bicycle racing, classifies races acc ...

: 10th Drentse Acht van Westerveld ;2020 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Criterium ::5th Road race : 1st Overall

::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st Grand Prix International d'Isbergues : 1st Stage 7

Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in the Ardèche region in southeastern France. The race was rated by the UCI as a 2.2 race, until 2018 when it was promoted to 2.1 status. Follo ...

: 5th Overall Women's Tour Down Under ::1st Stage 1 : 5th

Race Torquay Race Torquay is a one-day cycling race held annually in Australia since 2020. The race is held a few days before the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. It is rated as a 1.1 event on the UCI Oceania Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series ...

: 6th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race : 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad ;2021 : 1st Stage 4 Ladies Tour of Norway : 1st Stage 3

: 3rd Le Samyn : 4th Grand Prix International d'Isbergues : 4th Drentse Acht van Westerveld : 7th Classic Brugge–De Panne ;2022 : 6th Scheldeprijs : 2nd

Bloeizone Fryslân Tour The Bloeizone Fryslân Tour, also known as the EasyToys Bloeizone Fryslân Tour for sponsorship reasons is an elite women's annual multiple stage road bicycle race event held in the province Groningen in the Netherlands since 2011. The stage ra ...

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