Katie Mactier

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Women's Cycling
Olympic medal record
Silver	2004 Athens	Individual Pursuit

Katie Mactier who is wearing the yellow leader jersey leads a breakaway during the Stage 5 criterium of the 2006 Bay Cycling Classic at Melbourne Docklands.

Katie Mactier, born on the 23 March 1975 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is a professional cyclist, who commenced her cycling career in 1999 at the age of 24.

She is a member of the Caulfield Carnegie cycling club. She lives in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne.

Her greatest success on the track has been 1st place in the Individual Pursuit at the 2005 World Titles, in the World Cup in 2005 and her prized gold medal from the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. At the Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics Mactier broke the world record in the heats in the Individual pursuit, only to have Sarah Ulmer set a new world record in the final, relegating her to a silver medal.

In 2001 Mactier enjoyed the Australian Road Champion. In 2002/2003 she was the Australian Pursuit champion, and second in the 2003 World Pursuit Championship. She was selected as the 2003 and 2005 Australian Female Track Cyclist of the Year.

[edit] Career highlights

2007 Australia National Road Race Champion

2006 1st Jayco Bay Cycling Classic AUS; 1st Individal Pursuit 2006 Commonwealth Games 3:30.290;

2005 1st Individual Pursuit World Titles USA; 1st Individual Pursuit Track World Cup USA; 1st Individual Pursuit Oceania Titles AUS;

2004 1st Individual Pursuit Australian Titles NSW; 1st Stage 1 Geelong Tour AUS; 2nd Olympic Individual Pursuit GRE; 2nd Individual Pursuit World Titles AUS; 2nd Overall Geelong Tour AUS;

2003 1st Trofeo Guareschi ITA; 1st Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix USA; 1st Overall Fitchburg Longsjo Classic USA; 1st Stage 3 Geelong Women's Tour AUS; 1st Individual Pursuit Australian Titles NSW; 2nd Individual Pursuit World Titles GER; 2nd Road World Cup Geelong AUS; 2nd Overall Geelong Women's Tour AUS; 2nd T-Mobile International USA;

2001 1st Australian Road Titles VIC; 1st Valdengo-Biella ITA; 1st Sprint Classification Skilled Bay Series AUS;