Ally Wollaston (born 4 January 2001) is a New Zealand professional track

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and road cyclist riding for .

Early life

Wollaston got into cycling through her family as they were helping out with the St Peter's School Cycling Team. Wollaston was educated at St Peter's School, and is currently a law student at the

University of Waikato The University of Waikato ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato), is a Public university, public research university in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand established in 1964. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university perfo ...

Career

Wollaston was part of the New Zealand team that won the

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race in Hong Kong as part of the

2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup The 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup (also known as the Tissot UCI Track Cycling World Cup for sponsorship reasons) is a multi-race tournament over a track cycling season. It is the 28th series of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup organised by t ...

. She also won gold in the

individual pursuit The individual pursuit is a track cycling event where two cyclists begin the race from a stationary position on opposite sides of the track. It is held at over for men and for women. The riders start at the same time and set off to complete the ...

at the 2019 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships. Wollaston began racing professionally on the road for in August 2021. In January 2022, Wollaston won the National criterium championships. She then went to join her team in Europe and got her first win for the team at the

Grand Prix du Morbihan Grand Prix du Morbihan is a single-day men's road bicycle race held annually in May around Plumelec, in the region of Brittany, France. Since 2020, the race is organised as a UCI race classifications, 1.Pro event on the UCI ProSeries, also being p ...

on 14 May 2022. Wollaston was selected to represent

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. However, she crashed and injured her wrist during stage two of the

2022 Tour de France Femmes The 2022 Tour de France Femmes (officially Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift) was the first edition of the Tour de France Femmes, one of women's cycling's two grand tours. The race took place from 24 to 31 July 2022, and was the 16th event in the ...

, and was unable to compete at the Commonwealth Games.

Major results

Sources:

Road

;2018 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road race ::2nd

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;2019 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road race ::4th

;2020 : National U23 Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::4th

: 6th Elite National Championships Road race ;2021 : 5th Overall Watersley Womens Challenge ;2022 : 1st Under-23 National Road race Championships : 1st

Grand Prix du Morbihan Féminin The Grand Prix du Morbihan Féminin is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of over ...

: 2nd Elite National Championships Road race : 3rd Overall

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: 3rd Overall

Belgium Tour The Lotto Belgium Tour is an elite women's professional road bicycle stage race, held in Belgium since 2012. In the first year the tour consisted of three stages and grew with a team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race ...

::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 10th

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, ...

;2023 : 1st Schwalbe Classic : 1st National Criterium Championships - New Zealand : 1st Under-23 National

Championships : 1st Elite National Road race Championships : 1st Overall

Festival Elsy Jacobs The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. Since 2008 this event is on the UCI women's elite cycle racing c ...

::1st Points classification ::1st Youth classification ::1st Stage 2 ;2024 :

Women's Tour Down Under The Women's Tour Down Under (known for sponsorship reasons as the Santos Women's Tour Down Under) is an annual professional road bicycle racing for women in Australia. It is held in conjunction with the Tour Down Under. From 2016, it was rate ...

:: 1st Stage 1 :

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; en, Tour of Catalonia, es, Vuelta a Cataluña, link=no) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of th ...

:: 1st Stages 1 and 3

Track

;2019 : 1st Team Pursuit (Hong Kong)

References

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* 2001 births Living people People educated at St Peter's School, Cambridge New Zealand female cyclists New Zealand track cyclists People from Cambridge, New Zealand 21st-century New Zealand women {{NewZealand-cycling-bio-stub