Chloe Hosking (born 1 October 1990) is an Australian professional

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, 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 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, and won the women's road race at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Personal life

Childhood and early life

Hosking was born in Bendigo,

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, and moved to the suburb of

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in the

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. As a child she played

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and did rock climbing 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 road racing events in 2007. She now specialises in road cycling events, being a strong sprinter and a capable climber. Outside of cycling Hosking is a student, having completed a

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of Communications degree at

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specialising in

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. Hosking is currently studying a

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in Law, to graduate as a Juris Doctor.

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 '' Canberra Cycling Club'', mainly riding in track cycling events and achieving considerable success, including winning the Women's Under 19

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at the 2008

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. 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 sprint challenges in

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finishes to races. In 2008 Hosking rode for Australia in the Women's road race at the UCI Juniors Road World Championships in

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where she placed 37th. In 2009, she relocated to

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to ride competitively for the ''Moving Ladies'' club in the

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, 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

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. At the

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, Hosking won the bronze medal 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 gold medal ahead of

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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 2014 Commonwealth Games. 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

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::1st

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

Sparkassen Giro Bochum 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 The UCI Continental Cir ...

: 4th Grand Prix Stad Roeselare : 6th Omloop van Borsele : 8th Road race, Oceania Road Championships ; 2010 : 1st MaillotAustralia

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

Road race,

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: 3rd Overall

Nature Valley Grand Prix The North Star Grand Prix is a men's and women's road bicycle racing stage race held each June in Minnesota, United States, as part of the North Star Bicycle Festival. An event was added in North Mankato in 2016. The North Star Grand Prix is on ...

::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 The UCI Continental Ci ...

: 8th Omloop van Borsele ; 2011 : 1st Stage 3

: 1st Stage 2 ( TTT)

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: 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini : 4th Overall

Holland Ladies Tour The Holland Ladies Tourhttp://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in the Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons ...

::1st Young rider classification : 4th 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg : 5th

Liberty Classic The Liberty Classic was an annual women's bicycle race held from 1994 to 2012, simultaneously with the Philadelphia International Championship. The 57.6 mile race consisted of four laps of a 14.4 mile circuit through Philadelphia with 5 climbs up t ...

: 6th Road race,

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: 9th

: 10th Overall

Ladies Tour of Qatar The Tour of Qatar was an annual professional cycling stage race held in Qatar. First organized in 2002, the event was part of the UCI Asia Tour until 2016. The 2017 edition was to have seen the event upgraded to the UCI World Tour for the firs ...

;

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: 1st

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: 1st Halle-Buizingen : 1st Stage 5

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: 4th

Tour of Chongming Island World Cup The Tour of Chongming Island International Cycling Race is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race held in Shanghai, China, named after Chongming Island. The Tour previously consisted of two races: a stage race and a one-day race ...

: 5th Overall

::1st

Young rider classification : 7th Novilon Eurocup : 7th Grand Prix Stad Roeselare : 9th Classica Citta di Padova ;2013 : 1st Stage 5

: 2nd Overall

::1st

Young rider classification ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Overall

::1st

Sprints classification : 3rd

Ronde van Gelderland The Ronde van Gelderland ( en, Tour of Gelderland) was an elite women's road bicycle race held in the Netherlands between 2003 and 2016. It was rated by the UCI as a 1.2 category race, and was primarily centred around Apeldoorn Apeldoorn ( ...

: 4th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup : 4th

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: 7th

;2014 : 1st Omloop van Borsele : 1st Stage 2 Bay Classic Series : 3rd Overall

: 6th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik : 8th 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 Stage 3 : 9th

;2015 : 1st Overall Bay Classic Series ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Marianne Vos Classic : 1st La Classique Morbihan : 2nd Overall

: 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 Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country ...

: 3rd

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the To ...

: 4th

Le Samyn des Dames Le Samyn is an annual single-day road bicycle race in Belgium, held usually in late February or early March. The event was created in 1968 as ''Grand Prix de Fayt-le-Franc'', named after the former municipality where it started and finished. In 1 ...

: 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 Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europ ...

;2016 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Jersey white dots on red

Mountains classification ::1st Stage 2 : 1st

La Course by Le Tour de France La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...

: 1st

Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite The Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite is a women's one-day cycle race Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo- ...

: 1st Stage 3

Giro d'Italia Femminile The is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race. It was rebranded from 2013-2020 as the Giro Rosa, having been branded the Giro Donne until 2012 and again in 2021. It has been considered the most prestigious stage race in women's ...

: 1st Stage 3

: 2nd

Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta La Vuelta Femenina (; "The Female Tour") is an elite women's professional bicycle race held in Spain. The race is organised by and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), which also organises the men's Vuelta a España. It is part of the UCI Women' ...

: 4th

Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race also known as Great Ocean Road Race or Cadel Road Race is an annual professional one-day road bicycle racing for both men and women starting and finishing in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and routed along th ...

: 6th Acht van Westerveld : 7th Road race,

: 7th

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and ...

: 9th Overall

::1st Stage 4 ;2017 : 1st Drentse Acht van Westerveld :

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

Sprints classification ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Stage 3

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: 2nd

: 3rd Overall

::1st

Points classification : 6th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway ::1st Stage 2 : 6th Road race, Crescent Vårgårda : 7th

: 8th

: 10th

Ronde 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, kn ...

;2018 : 1st Gold medal blank

Road race,

: 1st

: 1st Stage 4

: 2nd

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: 3rd Overall Women's Herald Sun Tour ::1st Jersey green

Points classification : 3rd Drentse Acht van Westerveld : 3rd

: 4th

: 4th RideLondon Classique : 9th Overall

;2019 : 1st Tour of Guangxi Women's WorldTour : 1st Stage 4

: Women's Herald Sun Tour ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 2

Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta La Vuelta Femenina (; "The Female Tour") is an elite women's professional bicycle race held in Spain. The race is organised by and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), which also organises the men's Vuelta a España. It is part of the UCI Women' ...

: 1st Stage 2 Bay Classic Series : 4th Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden : 10th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini ::1st Stage 1 : 10th Overall Giro delle Marche in Rosa : 10th Drentse Acht van Westerveld ;2020 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotAustralia

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::5th Road race : 1st Overall Bay Classic Series ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st

Grand Prix International d'Isbergues Grand Prix International d'Isbergues (also known as Grand Prix International d'Isbergues - Pas de Calais Féminin) is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in France France (), officially the French Republic ( ...

: 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. Fo ...

: 5th Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 5th Race Torquay : 6th

: 8th

;2021 : 1st Stage 4 Ladies Tour of Norway : 1st Stage 3

: 3rd

Le Samyn Le Samyn is an annual single-day road bicycle race in Belgium, held usually in late February or early March. The event was created in 1968 as ''Grand Prix de Fayt-le-Franc'', named after the former municipality where it started and finished. In 1 ...

: 4th

: 4th Drentse Acht van Westerveld : 7th

Classic Brugge–De Panne The Classic Brugge–De Panne is a road cycling race in Belgium in late March. Since 2018 it is raced over two days with a men's race on Wednesday and a women's race on Thursday. Both races start in Bruges and finish in the seaside resort of De Pa ...

;2022 : 6th

Scheldeprijs The Scheldeprijs is a cycling race in Flanders and the Netherlands which starts in Terneuzen, crosses the Scheldt River, and finishes in Schoten. Until 2018 it was held entirely in Belgium. The event, ranked as a 1.HC race on the UCI Europe Tour, ...

: 2nd Bloeizone Fryslân Tour

References

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