Kathryn ("Kathy") Ann Watt (born 11 September 1964) is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the

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in Barcelona, Spain (gold in the road race, and silver in the pursuit). She has won 24 national championships in road racing, track racing, and mountain bike, four Commonwealth Games gold medals, and came third in the world time trial championship. She was made a life member o
Blackburn Cycling Club
in 1990. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. The daughter of marathoner Geoff Watt, Kathy Watt turned first to running, winning the national junior 3 km championship. She began to train on a bike after achilles tendon problems. For a while, she competed in duathlon (running and cycling), but found she was a better cyclist than runner. In 1996, Watt was in a legal dispute with the Australian Cycling Federation over who would race the pursuit in the Olympic Games. Watt had been told that she would be but was replaced a few days before the event by Lucy Tyler-Sharman. Watt appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, claiming a breach of contract. The court ordered Watt to be reinstated in the race. In 2000, Watt again became involved in a controversy over a selection, but this time she was not successful in her appeal to the CAS. She retired after 2000 but came back three years later but was not successful in an attempt to qualify for the 2004 Olympics. After another retirement, Watt worked as a coach and personal trainer. However, she made another comeback to qualify for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in

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, where she won a silver medal in the time trial. In January 2006, she won the time trial section of the Australian open road championship in Buninyong,

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. Watt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the

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, with a major in physiology and pathology. She studied nutrition, anatomy, and physiotherapy. She attended Tintern Church of England Girls' Grammar, now Tintern Grammar.

Awards and recognition

In 2015, Watt was an inaugural Cycling Australia Hall of Fame inductee. She was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2019.

Palmarès

Source: ;1990 :Commonwealth Games ::Road Race – 1st ::Track Pursuit – 2nd :Giro d'Italia ::Final Overall GC – 3rd ::1 stage victory ;1992 :Olympic Games ::Road Race – Gold Medal ::3 km Pursuit (track) – Silver : MaillotAustralia

Australian Road Race Championships – 1st ;1994 :Giro d'Italia ::Final Overall GC – 2nd ::3 stage victories :Giro del Piave – 1st :Canberra Stage Race ::Final Overall GC – 1st ::5 stage victories ;1995 :World Time Trial Championship – 3rd ;1996 : MaillotAustralia

Australian Championships ::Road Race – 2nd place ::Time Trial – 1st place ;1997 :Oceania Championships ::Road Race – 2nd place ::Time Trial – 1st place ;1998 :World Time Trial Championship – 6th :GP des Nations Time Trial – 2nd :Grande Boucle (Tour Cycliste Féminin) ::stage 12b – 3rd :Tour Féminin de Bretagne ::Overall – 2nd ::Prologue – 2nd ::stage 1 – 1st ::stage 5 – 2nd :Grazia Tour ::Overall – 2nd ::stage 2 – 2nd ::stage 3 – 3rd ::stage 4 – 1st :Tour de l'Aude ::Overall – 7th ::Prologue (Gruissan) – 2nd ::stage 5 (Castelnaudary TT)- 2nd ::stage 6a (Axat to Belcaire) – 2nd :GP Presov and Pravda ::Overall – 1st ::stage 1 (TT) – 1st ::stage 2 (Criterium) – 2nd ::stage 3 (Road Race) – 3rd ::stage 4 (Road Race) – 3rd ;1999 :Tour de 'Toona ::Overall – 2nd ::stage 2 – 3rd ::stage 4 – 2nd ::stage 5 – 1st :Grazia Tour ::Overall – 7th ::stage 3 – 3rd :Women's Challenge ::stage 4 (Sun Valley Time Trial) – 5th ::stage 9 (Burley to Buhl) – 2nd :Tour de Snowy ::stage 5 – 3rd ;2005 :Chrono Champenois – 1st :GP International Feminin Bretagne (cat. 2) – 2nd GC :Thuringen-Rundfahrt (cat. 1) – stage ;2006 ( Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam) :Commonwealth Games ::Individual road time trial – 2nd ::Australian Open Road Championship Time Trial – 1st ;2007 :Australian Open Road Championship ::Time Trial – 2nd ::Road Race – 9th : 1st Overall Tour de Perth ;2008 : Australian Open Road Championship ::Time Trial – 4th ::Road Race – 19th

References

External links

Kathy Watt's web site

AOC Kathy Watt profile

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