Meg Lemon (born 5 October 1989) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She represented Australia at the

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where she won a bronze medal and the 2024 Paris Paralympics, where she won a silver medal medal.

Personal

Lemon was born on 5 October 1989. She attended Sacred Heart College in

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. Lemon has a bachelor's degree, Nutrition and Dietetics from

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and works as a sports dietitian. Lemon sustained a brain injury when hit by a car while riding to work and left her with a weakened right side of her body.

Cycling

Lemon is classified as a C4 cyclist. In her international debut at the 2017

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, she finished fourth in the Women's C4-C5 Scratch Race. In September 2017, at the

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, Lemon won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Women's Road Race C4. At the

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, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Pursuit C4 and was ninth in Women's Scratch Race C4-5 and Women's 500 m Time Trial C4. At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships,

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she won the bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial C4 and finished fourth in the Women's Road Race C4. At the

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, Netherlands, she won the silver medal in the Women's Scratch Race C4 and the bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4. At the 2019

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, she won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Road Race C4. At the

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, she won the silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4. At the

, Lemon won the bronze medal in the Women's Road Time Trial C4 with a time of 41:14.42 and finished fourth in Women's Individual Pursuit C4, ninth together with Amanda Reid and Gordon Allan in the Mixed Team Sprint C1–5 and eighth in Women's Road Race C4-5. Lemon won the silver medal in the Women's Road Race C4 at

2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships The 2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships was the 11th edition of the World Championships for road cycling for athletes with a physical disability. The championships took place in Baie-Comeau in Canada from 11 to 14 August 2022. Medalis ...

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. At the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in

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, France, she won two bronze medals - Women's Pursuit C4 and Women's Scratch Race C4. At the

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in Paris, she won silver in the Women's C4 Individual Time Trial. She finished sixth in Women's Individual pursuit C4 and twelfth in the Women's road race C4-5. Lemon has held a South Australian Institute of Sport scholarship athlete.

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(archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lemon, Meg 1989 births Living people Paralympic cyclists for Australia Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Australian female cyclists South Australian Sports Institute alumni Sportswomen from South Australia People educated at Sacred Heart College (Adelaide) Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia 21st-century Australian sportswomen