Stephanie Morton
 Morton on the starting line at the 2013 International Track Series at the Adelaide Superdrome | ||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australia | |||||||||
| Born | 28 November 1990 | |||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||
| Sport | Cycling | |||||||||
| Club | South Coast Cycling Club | |||||||||
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Stephanie Morton, OAM (born 28 November 1990) is an Australian 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.
Personal
Stephanie Morton was born in Adelaide on 28 November 1990.[1] [2] As of 2013, she works for the "Bee Safe on Bikes" education program for junior primary school students.[1]
Cycling
Morton is a member of South Coast Cycling Club and is part of Team Jayco AIS.[1] She started cycling competitively at the age of 15.[1] Competing at the 2011 National Keirin Final, she finished second behind Anna Meares.[1]
Morton made her Australian national team debut at the 2011 Para-cycling Track World Championships with Felicity Johnson.[1] She has said forming a friendship and real partnership was key for the pair's success.[3] In 2012, she participated in the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles, while serving as the pilot for Johnson, she finished first in the B tandem 1 km time trial event.[4] At the 2012 London Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Women's 1 km Time Trial B event.[5]
In November 2012, Morton came first in the Keirin and second in the sprint at the Oceania Track Championships.[1] 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 Minsk, Belarus, she came fourth in the team sprint (with McCulloch) and sixth in the individual sprint.[1] At the 2013 Australian National Track Championships in Sydney, she came first in the keirin, individual sprint, and team sprint (with Rikki Belder).[1][6] 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".[7]
Morton was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 "Stephanie Morton". Cycling Australia. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
- ↑ "Stephanie Morton". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ "Partners in the fast lane". The Age. 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
- ↑ "Para-Cyclones Golden Finish to Worlds Campaign". International Business Times. 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
- ↑ Stephanie Morton's profile on paralympic.org. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ "South Australia And Victoria Strike Gold During Opening Session Of 2013 Track Nationals". Cycling Australia. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ↑ "Stephanie Morton beats favourite Anna Meares in keirin final at national track cycling titles". 1 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ↑ "Australia Day honours list 2014: in full". Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
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