Rochelle Gilmore (born 14 December 1981) is an Australian former racing cyclist, owner and manager of the professional cycling team .

Career

Born in Sutherland, New South Wales, Gilmore competed in track cycling in her teens, before specialising in road racing for more than 10 years. In 2006, she won a stage at the Geelong Women's Tour, took second behind teammate

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in the points race at the Commonwealth Games in

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and

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

, and earned top five finishes in a Giro d'Italia Femminile stage, the

Geelong World Cup The Australia World Cup was a women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in Australia from 1998 to 2008 as part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup. The location of the race varied: in 1998, it was held in Sydney; from 1999 to ...

, and the Liberty Classic. Gilmore was often referred to in the media as the 'bridesmaid', as she constantly finished runner-up in many events. In the road race 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 ...

, she broke the jinx and won the gold medal in the race. After her retirement she said she felt she achieved her maximum potential during her career through hard work and extensive preparation. In addition to founding Wiggle-Honda, in January 2015 Gilmore announced the launch of the High5 Dream Team, an Australian women's team competing in Australia's National Road Series aiming to help riders progress to road racing in Europe and to fill a gap created by Cycling Australia suspending its women's development programme due to financial problems. In a blogpost for cyclingnews.com in November 2015 Gilmore announced that she had retired from competition.

Major results

Track

;1999 : National Junior Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Scratch ::1st MaillotAustralia

Points race ::3rd Sprint ::3rd 500m time trial : 2nd Silver medal blank

Points race, UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Points race, Oceania Games ;2000 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Ipoh ;2001 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Pordenone ;2002 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Scratch, UCI Track Cycling World Championships : 2nd Silver medal blank

Points race, Commonwealth Games : 2nd Silver medal blank

Scratch, UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Moscow ;2003 : UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics ::1st Gold medal blank

Team sprint, Sydney ::2nd Silver medal blank

Scratch, Sydney ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Team sprint, Cape Town : 2nd Silver medal blank

Scratch, UCI Track Cycling World Championships ;2004 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Scratch, UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester ;2005 : 1st Gold medal blank

Points race,

2004–05 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2004–2005 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycl ...

, Sydney : Oceania Track Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Points race ::3rd Bronze medal Oceania

Scratch ;2006 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Points race, Commonwealth Games

Road

;1999 : 3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2001 : 1st GP Carnevale d'Europa : 1st Stage 2b Giro d'Italia Femminile : 3rd Canberra Women's Classic : 9th Rotterdam Tour ;2002 : 1st Jersey blue

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 ...

::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 1st Stage 5

Tour de Snowy The Tour de Snowy was an international women's road bicycle race held in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia from 1998 to 2002. The Tour had from five to nine stages and attracted professional cyclists from around the world ...

: 2nd

Australia World Cup The Australia World Cup was a women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in Australia from 1998 to 2008 as part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup. The location of the race varied: in 1998, it was held in Sydney; from 1999 to ...

: 10th Rotterdam Tour ;2003 : 1st Stage 8 Giro d'Italia Femminile : 1st Stage 1 Geelong Tour : 3rd Primavera Rosa : 3rd Sparkassen Giro Bochum : 3rd

Tjejtrampet Tjejtrampet was an annual road bicycle racing event which, as the name tells (“trej” being Swedish for “girl”), was only for female participants. The events were held in Sweden by late May between 1990-2009. The race was held for first time ...

: 6th Rotterdam Tour : 7th GP Liberazione : 7th Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt : 8th Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup : 9th

;2004 : 1st Stage 4

: 5th

;2005 : 1st Geelong Women's World Cup : 2nd GP Liberazione : 2nd Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt : 6th Road race, Oceania Road Cycling Championships ;2006 : 1st Stage 2 Geelong Tour : 5th

: 5th Liberty Classic : 8th GP Liberazione : 10th Road race, Commonwealth Games ;2007 : 1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Road race, Oceania Road Cycling Championships : 1st Stage 1 La Route de France : 2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies : 2nd

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 ...

: 4th

Novilon Internationale Damesronde van Drenthe 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, ...

: 4th Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt : 5th GP Liberazione : 5th Sparkassen Giro : 6th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup : 10th Tour de Berne ;2008 : Tour de Prince Edward Island ::1st Stages 1, 3 & 5 : 1st Maastricht Omnium : 2nd GP Liberazione : 2nd Gran Premio Comune di Fabricco : 2nd Sparkassen Giro Bochum : 3rd

: 4th

: 5th Ronde van Drenthe ;

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: 1st Sparkassen Giro Bochum :

Women's Tour of New Zealand The Women's Tour of New Zealand is a stage race for elite women road cyclists held in New Zealand at the end of February or the beginning of March. It is rated as 2.2 on the UCI classification scheme. It was not held in 2013 or 2014, but return ...

::1st Stages 1 & 2 : 2nd Ronde van Gelderland : 2nd

GP Stad Roeselare The GP Stad Roeselare is an elite women's road bicycle race held annually in Roeselare, Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordere ...

: 2nd Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt : 3rd Bronze medal Oceania

Road race, Oceania Road Cycling Championships (February) : 3rd Bronze medal Oceania

Road race, Oceania Road Cycling Championships (November) : 4th

: 5th Grand Prix de Dottignies ;2010 : 1st gold medal blank

Road race, Commonwealth Games : 2nd Ronde van Gelderland : 2nd Omloop van Borsele : Tour of Chongming Island ::3rd Overall

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 consists of "ordinary" stages, but sometimes stages ...

::3rd World Cup : 4th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar : 7th Grand Prix de Dottignies : 10th Omloop Door Middag-Humsterland ;2011 : 1st Jersey blue

Overall

::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 3rd Ronde van Gelderland : 4th Road race, Oceania Road Cycling Championships : 4th Grand Prix de Dottignies : 4th

: 5th Ronde van Drenthe : 8th Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar ::1st Stage 1 : 8th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup : 9th

;2012 : 2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau : 2nd Liberty Classic : 4th Overall

: Tour of Chongming Island ::5th Overall Stage race ::5th World Cup : 9th Erondegemse Pijl ;2015 : 5th

London Nocturne The London Nocturne (formerly the Smithfield Nocturne) was a cycling race in London, United Kingdom, organised as a criterium around a long course in the City of London. It was first run in 2007 for men and in 2009 for women, and took place as ...

References

External links

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NZCT Tour of New Zealand results and articles
* ttp://www.sbs.com.au/cyclingcentral/video/2168900152/rochelle-gilmore-interview 2011 Rochelle Gilmore interview with Sophie Smith from SBS {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilmore, Rochelle 1981 births Living people Australian female cyclists Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia People from the Sutherland Shire Sportswomen from New South Wales Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Cyclists from Sydney Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling