Shelley Olds (born September 30, 1980) is an American former professional racing cyclist.

Career

Olds was born and raised in

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. She studied health and human performance at

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, and was captain of their women's soccer team. A star on the soccer pitch, Olds was a two-time NSCAA All-South Region selection, four-time All-ODAC selection and the 2002 ODAC Player of the Year. She was inducted into the Roanoke Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016. After college, she moved to California and was introduced to cycling by Rob Evans, whom she later married. She started racing locally on the road, quickly moving up in the ranks and winning the Road Cycling State Championships. She then joined Peanut Butter & Co.TWENTY12 team, won the Track National Scratch Race Championships in 2008 and 2009 and then won the National Criterium Championships in 2010 and 2011. She began racing internationally soon after and earned podium results in the Tour of New Zealand, Trofeo Costa Etrusca Iii in Italy, Drentse 8 Van Dwingeloo in Netherlands, as well as Liberty Classic road race in Philadelphia. She registered with the UCI under her married name of Shelley Evans for the 2010 season, but reverted to her maiden name in later seasons. In 2012, Olds signed with Dutch team and won the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup to earn a qualifying spot on the US National team for the Road race at the London Olympics. At the Olympics, she was one of the four riders in the winning breakaway group that split from the peloton with to go, but suffered a puncture later. After a tire change, she caught back up to the peloton and finished in 7th place. Olds carried on with her professional racing career with multiple UCI Women teams, and continued her ascent to become one of the top sprinters in the world. She took multiple Sprinters' jerseys in races across Italy, Norway and China. Back in North America, she won the Winston-Salem Cycling Classic in North Carolina, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau in Quebec, Canada, and the White Spot/Delta road race in British Columbia, Canada. In 2015, while riding for the Italian team, Olds won the inaugural edition of La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta in a bunch sprint beating out top sprinters in the world at the time. She moved back to the United States in 2016 to join team and started the year with a 2nd place finish in the Women's Down Under Tour in Australia, but had to retire in March of that year after crashing and suffering from head injuries in back to back races in Europe.

Major results

Sources:Shelley Olds-Evans profile
at ''CycleBase'' ;2008 : 1st MaillotUSA

Scratch, National Track Championships : 8th Liberty Classic ;2009 : 1st MaillotUSA

Scratch, National Track Championships : 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics ::2nd Silver medal blank

Points race, Melbourne ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Scratch, Manchester : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Points race,

2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics The 2008–2009 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race competition over a season of track cycling. The season ran from 31 October 2008 to 18 February 2009. The World Cup is organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The World C ...

, Copenhagen : 3rd Liberty Classic ;2010 : 1st PanAmericanJersey

Road race, Pan American Road Championships : 1st MaillotUSA

National Criterium Championships : 1st Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand ::1st Stages 1, 2, 5 & 6 : 1st Stage 10

Giro d'Italia Femminile The is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing race stage, 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 ...

: 2nd Liberty Classic ;2011 : 1st GP Costa Etrusca : 2nd Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo : 2nd Liberty Classic : 5th

Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the '' comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy. Sin ...

: 6th

Grand Prix de Dottignies The Grand Prix de Dottignies is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Belgium and is currently rated by the UCI as a 1.2 race. Past winners References Cycle races in Belgium Women's roa ...

;

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gat ...

Tour of Chongming Island 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 ...

::1st World Cup ::4th Overall Stage race : 1st Stage 6

: 2nd

7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg The 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg ( en, 7-villages circuit Aalburg; also known as the Rabobank 7-Dorpenomloop van Aalburg due to sponsorship reasons and the Dorpenomloop Wijk en Aalburg) was an elite women's road bicycle race held in and around Aalburg, ...

: 4th Road race, Pan American Road Championships : 4th

Open de Suède Vårgårda Open de Suède Vårgårda is an elite professional women's road bicycle event held annually in the Vårgårda Municipality of Sweden. Created in 2006, the Open de Suède Vårgårda was part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup until 2015 and sancti ...

: 7th Road race,

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The ina ...

: 8th

Holland Hills Classic The Holland Hills Classic was a women's elite professional road bicycle race held annually between 2004 and 2016 in Limburg, the Netherlands. The race was categorised as a 1.1 UCI category race, and was organised by the ''Stichting Holland Ladie ...

;2013 : 1st

Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau is an elite women's professional road race held in Canada and is currently rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 1.1 race.Le Samyn des Dames : 2nd

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. Originally a 1.2 rated race by the UCI, it is now a 1.1 category race. Before 2011 the race was a criterium of category 1.N ...

: 4th Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo : 4th

Philadelphia Cycling Classic Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

: 5th Overall Belgium Tour : 5th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini ::1st Points classification : 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 5th Cholet Pays de Loire Dames : 6th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup : 7th Chrono Gatineau : 8th Overall

;

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: 1st

Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile — Memorial Michela Fanini ::1st Jersey violet

Points classification ::1st Prologue & Stage 1 : 1st

GP Comune di Cornaredo The GP Comune di Cornaredo is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Italy and is currently rated by the UCI as a 1.2 race. Past winners References Cycle races in Italy Women's road bicycle races Rec ...

: 1st

Winston-Salem Cycling Classic The Winston-Salem Cycling Classic is a one-day race held annually since 2013 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the United States. In 2019, it was rated as a 1.2 race by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), and was part of the UCI America ...

: 2nd Overall

: 2nd Novilon EDR Cup : 2nd

: 3rd Overall

Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin 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 ...

: 3rd Ronde van Drenthe World Cup : 5th

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 tw ...

: 6th Road race,

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

: 6th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup : 8th Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica ::1st Stages 3 & 5 : 10th

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 C ...

;2015 : 1st White Spot / Delta Road Race : 1st La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta : 2nd Overall

Ladies Tour of Norway The Ladies Tour of Norway is a women's cycle stage race. The first edition of the race was held from 15 to 17 August 2014 based in the town of Halden in south east Norway. It consisted of an individual time trial prologue and two road race stages ...

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd EPZ Omloop van Borsele :

::4th World Cup ::5th Overall Stage race : 4th

: 7th

Dwars door de Westhoek The GP Stad Roeselare is an elite women's road bicycle race held annually in Roeselare, Belgium. The race is established in 2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Fli ...

: 9th Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda ;2016 : 2nd Overall

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 ...

: 4th

: 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad : 6th

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, ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Olds, Shelley 1980 births Living people American female cyclists People from Groton, Massachusetts Sportspeople from Middlesex County, Massachusetts Roanoke College alumni Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of the United States 21st-century American women Cyclists from Massachusetts

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