Rebecca Wiasak (born 24 May 1984) is an Australian

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

. She represented her nation at the

2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling in 2015. They took place in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (part of the Paris Metropolitan Area) at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 18–22 ...

where she became a world champion in individual pursuit. In January 2015 she was announced as part of the inaugural line-up for the High5 Dream Team. In 2017, Wiasak raced domestically for ACTAS on the track, for High5 Dream Team in Australia and in the United States of America for Fearless Femme Racing on the road. In 2009 Wiasak represented Australia in Lithuanian World Games competing in women's basketball. After missing out of selection to compete at a major international Games at the Glasgow 2014 and Rio 2016, Wiasak was selected for her first

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

. At the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, she set a new Australian record beating her previous national record set at the Paris 2015 track world championships, and Wiasak was one of four riders to beat the previous Commonwealth Games individual pursuit record

Joanna Rowsell Joanna Katie Rowsell MBE (born 5 December 1988) is a retired English cyclist on the Great Britain Cycling Team who competed on track and road. Her greatest successes were the gold medals won in the women's team pursuit at the 2012 London Olym ...

set in 2014.

Major results

;2014 :BikeNZ Classic ::1st Points Race ::2nd Omnium :Oceania Track Championships ::2nd Individual Pursuit ::2nd Team Pursuit (with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Georgia Baker,

Lauren Perry Lauren Perry (born 5 April 2001) is a Northern Irish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Montrose in the Scottish Women's Premier League and for the Northern Ireland national team. She previously played for Linfield in Northern Ireland, B ...

and

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) ::3rd Scratch Race :2nd Scatch Race, BikeNZ Cup ;2015 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships :1st Individual Pursuit, South Australian Grand Prix ;2016 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships ;2017 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Individual pursuit, National Track Championships : 2nd Team Pursuit, UCI Track World Championships : 4th Individual Time Trial, Australian National Time Trial Championships ;2018 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Australian National Criterium Championships : 2nd Individual Pursuit,

: 3rd Individual Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships ;2019 : 1st MaillotAustralia

Australian National Criterium Championships :5th Overall Lexus of Blackburn Bay Cycling Classic

References

External links

Official website
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1984 births Living people ACT Academy of Sport alumni Australian female cyclists Australian people of Lithuanian descent Australian people of Polish descent Australian people of Russian descent Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Geelong Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Sportswomen from Victoria (state) {{Australia-cycling-bio-stub