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Rikki Belder (born 2 July 1993) is a former Australian track sprint cyclist. She was the 2017 Oceania Champion in the 500m Team Sprint (with Holly Takos and
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), and has won six Australian Titles in the same event with fellow South Australian team members
Anna Meares Anna Maree Devenish Meares (born 21 September 1983) is an Australian retired track cyclist. She currently resides in Adelaide in South Australia where the Australian Institute of Sport's Track Cycling program has its headquarters at the Adelaid ...
OAM and
Stephanie Morton Stephanie Morton, (born 28 November 1990) is a retired Australian track cyclist. She has won national and international cycling titles, and was Felicity Johnson's tandem pilot at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a gold medal ...
OAM. Belder holds the Australian Championship Record in the 500m Team Sprint (with Stephanie Morton). She represented Australia at the 201
Union Cycliste Internationale

UCI Track Cycling World Cup
III in
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, Colombia, and at the 2017 Oceania Track Cycling Championships.


Biography

Rikki Belder was born in
Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
, South Australia on 2 July 1993. She was a scholarship holder at the
South Australian Sports Institute Sport plays an important role in the business, community, social and cultural life in South Australia. Sport as entertainment plays an important role with South Australia having the second highest rate of event attendance of all states and terri ...
(SASI) from 2011 - 2017. Belder studied
Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...
at
Flinders University Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator ...
. She is the daughter of Lyn and Gary Belder. Sister Donna Belder, held a PhD research scholarship in
ornithology Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...
at th
Fenner School of Environment and Society
Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...
(ANU). In 2014, Rikki Belder was listed as one o
South Australia's Fastest-Rising Stars Under 30
''. Belder has completed some art work for charity.


Palmares - Cycling

;2018 * 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Morton and Takos) Australian National Championships QLD * 3rd Keirin Australian National Championships QLD ;2017 * 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Takos and
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) Oceania Championships VIC * 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Morton and Takos) Australian National Championships QLD * 2nd 500m Time Trial Australian National Championships QLD * 4th Keirin Australian National Championships QLD * 6th Sprint Oceania Championships VIC * 6th Sprint Australian National Championships QLD * 10th Keirin Oceania Championships VIC ;2016 * 2nd 500m Team Sprint (With Hargrave) Australian National Championships SA * 3rd Keirin Australian National Championships SA *3rd Keirin, ITS Melbourne Grand Prix ;2015 * 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Meares and Morton) Australian National Championships VIC * 1st 500m Time Trial Australian National Championships VIC * 3rd Keirin Oceania Championships SA :3rd Keirin, Austral Wheelrace Carnival ;2014 * 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Morton) Australian National Championships SA : Austral Wheelrace Carnival ::1st Keirin :: 2nd Sprint :* 3rd Keirin Oceania Track Championships :* 3rd 500m Time Trial Oceania Track Championships ''2013'' * 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Morton) Australian National Championships NSW * 2nd 500m Team Sprint (With Morton) Oceania Championships NSW * 3rd 500m Time Trial Australian National Championships NSW ''2012'' * 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Meares) Australian National Championships SA * 2nd 500m Time Trial Australian National Championships SA * 2nd 500m Time Trial Oceania Championships NZL * 2nd Team Sprint (With Falappi) Oceania Championships NZL


Sponsorship

Belder was a GKA Sports Distribution (http://www.gkasports.com.au) supported athlete.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Belder, Rikki 1993 births Australian female cyclists Living people Cyclists from Adelaide Sportswomen from South Australia