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Stephanie Morton, (born 28 November 1990) is a retired 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 has won national and international cycling titles, and was
Felicity Johnson Felicity Jane Johnson (born 30 May 1971) is an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Personal Felicity Jane Johnson ...
's
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pilot at the
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in London, where she won a gold medal.


Personal

Stephanie Morton 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 ...
on 28 November 1990. , she works for the "Bee Safe on Bikes" education program for junior primary school students.


Cycling

Morton is a member of South Coast Cycling Club and is part of Team Jayco AIS. She started cycling competitively at the age of 15. Competing at the 2011 National
Keirin – literally "racing cycle" – is a form of motor-paced cycle racing in which track cyclists sprint for victory following a speed-controlled start behind a motorized or non-motorized pacer. It was developed in Japan around 1948 for gambling ...
Final, she finished second behind Anna Meares. She made her Australian national team debut at the 2011 Para-cycling Track World Championships with
Felicity Johnson Felicity Jane Johnson (born 30 May 1971) is an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Personal Felicity Jane Johnson ...
. She has said forming a friendship and real partnership was key for the pair's success. In 2012, she participated in the
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships The UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships are the world championships for track cycling where athletes with a physical disability compete, organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The Championships were earlier administered by t ...
in
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as the pilot for Johnson, and finished first in the B tandem 1 km time trial and the B Tandem sprint. At the 2012 London Paralympics, they won a gold medal in the Women's 1 km Time Trial B event, and were subsequently awarded the
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in the 2014
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"for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games." In November 2012, Morton came first in the Keirin and second in the sprint at the Oceania Track Championships. In the third round of the 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics in Aguascalientes, Mexico, she came first in the team sprint with Kaarle McCulloch and 6th in the keirin, while at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in
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, Belarus, she came fourth in the team sprint (with McCulloch) and sixth in the individual sprint. At the 2013
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in Sydney, she came first in the keirin, individual sprint, and team sprint (with
Rikki Belder Rikki Belder (born 2 July 1993) is a former Australian track cyclist, track sprint cyclist. She was the 2017 Oceania Champion in the Team sprint, 500m Team Sprint (with Holly Takos and Courtney Field), and has won six Australian Titles in the sam ...
). In February 2014, she scored an upset win at the Australian track cycling championships by beating Anna Meares in the Keiren for the first time. Meares tweeted a photo of a cap that she had signed for Morton five years before, on which she had written: "Steph, maybe one day you'll beat me". At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in
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, Morton competed in the track sprint and 500 m time trial, while Johnson had a new partner, Holly Takos. Morton rode a personal best time of 34.079 in the 500 m time trial at the
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, but won silver after Anna Meares posted a faster time. However, she defeated Meares in the track sprint, winning two heats to none in the best-of-three final to take the gold medal.


Major results

;2011 :1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial, UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships (Pilot for
Felicity Johnson Felicity Jane Johnson (born 30 May 1971) is an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Personal Felicity Jane Johnson ...
) :1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial, New Zealand Oceania Para-Cycling Regional Cup (Pilot for Felicity Johnson) ;2012 :1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial, Paralympic Games (Pilot for
Felicity Johnson Felicity Jane Johnson (born 30 May 1971) is an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Personal Felicity Jane Johnson ...
) :UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships ::1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial (Pilot for Felicity Johnson) ::1st Tandem B – Sprint (Pilot for Felicity Johnson) ;2013 :Melbourne Cup on Wheels ::1st Keirin ::2nd Sprint ;2014 :Oceania Track Championships ::1st Keirin ::1st Sprint ::1st Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch) :
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::1st Sprint ::2nd 500m Time Trial :Adelaide Cycling Grand Prix ::1st Sprint ::2nd Keirin :1st Sprint, Super Drome Cup :2nd Sprint, South Australian Track Classic ;2015 :Oceania Track Championships ::1st Keirin ::1st Team Sprint ::2nd Sprint :3rd Sprint, Super Drome Cup ;2016 :Austral ::1st Keirin ::1st Sprint :Oceania Track Championships ::2nd Keirin ::3rd Sprint :2nd Sprint, ITS Melbourne DISC Grand Prix :2nd Sprint, ITS Melbourne Grand Prix ;2017 :Oceania Track Championships ::1st Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch) ::1st Sprint ::1st Keirin :Australian Track Championships ::1st Sprint ::1st Team Sprint (with
Rikki Belder Rikki Belder (born 2 July 1993) is a former Australian track cyclist, track sprint cyclist. She was the 2017 Oceania Champion in the Team sprint, 500m Team Sprint (with Holly Takos and Courtney Field), and has won six Australian Titles in the sam ...
) ::1st Keirin :ITS Melbourne – DISC Grand Prix ::1st Keirin ::1st Sprint :ITS Melbourne – Hisense Grand Prix ::1st Keirin ::1st Sprint :Austral ::1st Keirin ::2nd Sprint :UCI World Track Championships ::2nd Sprint ::2nd Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch) :2nd Sprint, Round 1, (
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) Track Cycling World Cup ;2018 :
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::1st Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch) ::1st Sprint ::1st Keirin ::2nd 500m Time Trial


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morton, Stephanie 1990 births Living people Australian female cyclists Australian track cyclists Olympic cyclists for Australia Paralympic cyclists for Australia Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Paralympic medalists in cycling Paralympic sighted guides Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Cyclists from Adelaide Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia South Australian Sports Institute alumni Sportswomen from South Australia UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women) 21st-century Australian women 21st-century Australian people Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games