Karen Holliday
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Karen Margaret Holliday |
| Born |
12 February 1966 Nelson, New Zealand |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road and track |
| Role | Rider |
| Major wins | |
World champion, points race (1990)  National champion, road race (1990) | |
Karen Margaret Holliday MBE (born 12 February 1966) is a former New Zealand track cyclist. She won the world title in the women's points race at the 1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Maebashi, and in doing so became the first New Zealander to win a world cycling title.[1] At the same championship she finished fourth in the road race.[2] Holliday also won the 1990 New Zealand women's road race title.[3]
In the 1991 New Year Honours, Holliday was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to cycling.[4] She was named as New Zealand sportswoman of the year for 1990 at the Halberg Awards.[5]
She was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Postwar comrades relish memory, and new honour". Evening Post. 27 September 1997. p. 62.
- ↑ "Karen Holliday". http://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/. New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 28 February 2014. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ Karen Holliday profile at Cycling Archives
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 52383. p. 30. 31 December 1990. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
- ↑ "1990: Halbert Disability Sport Foundation". http://www.halberg.co.nz/. Halberg Disability Sport Foundation. Retrieved 1 March 2014. External link in
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