Annette Edmondson (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian former

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who competed on the track with

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's High Performance Unit (HPU). She also competed on the road for the team between 2015 and 2018. Her greatest successes were the three gold medals she won at the

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in the omnium and team pursuit, a competition in which she also secured further silver medals in the omnium (2012) and team pursuit (2012 and 2013). Edmondson also competed in the

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, securing a bronze medal for Australia in the women's

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and finishing in fourth place in the

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. At the

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she claimed a silver in the

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and a gold in the

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, her first gold medal at an international level and her first Commonwealth title. In addition, she has competed at the National Track Championships with gold medal results at an elite level since 2012 in multiple disciplines.

Early life

Edmondson was born in

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, but due to her parents' careers at

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, she spent the early part of her childhood living in

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and the Netherlands. However, when she was six, the family returned to her father's native land of Australia. She attended the Victor Harbor Primary School, south of Adelaide, South Australia, later moving to

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in the Adelaide Hills where she took up numerous pursuits, including soccer and athletics.

Career

When she was 13, the

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visited her school and she was identified as having the physical attributes to have a potential career in cycling. After a year in the Talent Search Program, her first major win came at the 2006 National Junior Track Championships where she won two bronze medals in the Under 17 500m Time Trial and Sprint. From that point, she began to specialise in sprint cycling and as a junior won sprint events at a National and Oceania level. In 2010, she took part in her first elite level National Championships finishing with silvers in the Team sprint, Keirin and 500m TT as well as a bronze in the Individual sprint. However, Edmondson began to lose interest in the sport and took a break from cycling. In spite of her doubt, she returned to training just four months later, but she wanted a change and therefore made the switch from sprint to endurance cycling. Eight months later, she had successfully made the switch by becoming the Australian Omnium and Scratch Race champion. Her first World Championships came in 2012 at the UCI World Championships in Melbourne in which she achieved silver in both the Omnium and Team Pursuit. These results helped her secure a place in the 2012 Australian Olympic Team. In London, she took part in two events of the Olympic Track Cycling Schedule. In the Team Pursuit, the Australian squad secured 4th place, missing out on the bronze medal. It was her performance in the 6 events of the Omnium resulted in her claiming the bronze medal. After the Olympics, in 2013, she signed a professional road contract with Orica–AIS, in her first season with the team, she secured a major victory taking 1st overall in the

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. Her and teammates took 3rd in the 2013 World Road Race Championships TTT in Florence, Italy. At the

in Glasgow, Edmondson claimed a silver in the

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along with fellow athlete

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who took a bronze in the event. On the 3rd day of competition (26 July 2014), Edmondson took part in the 10 km

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, where she raced to victory taking her 1st Commonwealth Games Gold Medal and again fellow athlete

also succeeded coming out with a silver medal from the event. On 22 October 2014, announced that Edmondson had signed with the team for the 2015 season, where she remained until the team disbanded at the end of the 2018 season. Alongside her road racing, she continued to compete in track cycling. At the 2015 World Championships, she won gold in the omnium and the team pursuit. At the

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, she competed in the team pursuit (the Australian team finished 5th) and the omnium (finishing in 8th). She competed at the 2019 World Championships, winning gold in the team pursuit. Edmondson qualified for the

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. She was a member of the Women's pursuit team. The team consisting of

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, Annette Edmondson,

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finished fifth. She also competed in the omnium and the madison events. Edmondson retired from competition after the conclusion of the 2021 UCI Track Champions League in December of that year, having finished third in the women's endurance standings.

Personal life

Edmondson has also had an interest in charity work from a young age. Her first recognition of her work came in 2007 in which she became "Make Indigenous Poverty History

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for SA". Since then, she has made personal visits to deprived areas, such as parts of

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to give up her time as volunteer. She is fluent in Indonesian. Edmondson has two brothers; her younger brother

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is also a professional cyclist.

Major results

Track

;2007 : Oceania Junior Track Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Sprint ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Team sprint (with

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) ::1st

Scratch : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Keirin, Oceania Track Championships ;2008 : National Junior Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

500m time trial ::1st MaillotAustralia

Sprint ::1st MaillotAustralia

Keirin : 2nd Silver medal blank

Sprint,

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: 3rd Team sprint, National Track Championships ;2009 : National Junior Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Sprint ::1st MaillotAustralia

Scratch ::1st MaillotAustralia

500m time trial ::2nd Keirin : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Keirin,

;2010 : National Track Championships ::2nd Team sprint ::2nd Keirin ::2nd 500m time trial ::3rd Sprint ;2011 : National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Omnium ::1st MaillotAustralia

Scratch ::3rd Team pursuit ;2012 : National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Individual pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

Points race ::2nd Scratch :

::2nd

: 3rd

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;2013 : Oceania Track Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Points race ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Omnium ::2nd silver medal blank

Team pursuit : National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Omnium ::1st MaillotAustralia

Individual pursuit ::1st MaillotAustralia

Points race ::1st MaillotAustralia

Scratch : 1st 6 Giorni delle Rose Omnium : 1st Invercargill Scratch race :

::2nd

::3rd

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::3rd

;2014 : Oceania Track Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Individual pursuit ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Omnium :

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::1st

Scratch ::2nd silver medal blank

: National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Scratch ::1st MaillotAustralia

Points race ::1st MaillotAustralia

Omnium ::1st MaillotAustralia

Madison (with Jessica Mundy) ::2nd Individual pursuit ::3rd Team pursuit :

::3rd

;2015 :

::1st

::1st

: 1st

Omnium, Oceania Track Championships : 1st Omnium, South Australian Grand Prix : 1st Omnium, Super Drome Cup : 1st Madison, Austral (with

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) : National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Madison (with Jessica Mundy) ::2nd Individual pursuit ::2nd Team pursuit ;2016 : Oceania Track Championships ::1st OceaniaChampionJersey

Team pursuit (with

and

) ::1st

Madison (with

) : National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Scratch ::1st MaillotAustralia

Points race ;2018 :

::1st

(with

and

) ::3rd

: National Track Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

Team pursuit (with

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, and

) ::2nd Madison (with

) ;2019 : 1st Jersey rainbow

;2021 : 3rd Endurance classification UCI Track Cycling Champions League

Road

;2011 : 8th Road race, Oceania Road Championships ;2012 : National Road Championships ::2nd Under-23 criterium ::3rd

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: 8th Road race, Oceania Road Championships ;2013 : 1st Overall

::1st Stage 3 : 1st Stage 4

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: 3rd

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: 9th Dwars door de Westhoek ;2014 : 1st Points classification Adelaide Tour : 2nd Silver medal blank

;2015 : 1st Jersey green

Sprints classification

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: 4th RideLondon Grand Prix : 7th Overall

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;2016 : 1st Stage 2

;2017 : 1st Pajot Hills Classic : 3rd Overall

::1st Prologue : 10th Overall

;2018 : 1st Towards Zero Race Melbourne : 1st Stage 1

;2019 : 4th Dwars door de Westhoek ;2021 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

References

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