Meg Lemon

Meg Lemon (born 5 October 1989) is an Australian Paralympics cyclist.

Meg Lemon
Personal information
NationalityAustralia
Born (1989-10-05) 5 October 1989
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportCycling
Disability classC4
ClubPort Adelaide Cycling Club

Personal

Lemon was born on 5 October 1989.[1] She attended Sacred Heart College in Adelaide, South Australia. Lemon has a bachelor's degree, Nutrition and Dietetics from Flinders University and works as a 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.[2]

Cycling

She is classified as a C4 cyclist. In her international debut at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles, United States, she finished fourth in the Women's C4-C5 Scratch Race.[3]

In September 2017, at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, she won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Women's Road Race C4.[4] At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Pursuit C4 and ninth in Women's Scratch Race C4-5 and Women's 500 m Trime Trial C4. At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Maniago, Italy she won the bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial C4 and finished fourth in the Women's Road Race C4.[5]

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she won the silver medal in the Women's Sctatch Race C4 and bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4.[6]

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Emmen, Netherlands, she won bronze medals in the Women's Trime Trial C4 and Road Race C4. [7]

At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Milton, Ontario, she won the silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4.[8]

In 2018, she is a South Australian Institute of Sport scholarship athlete.

References

  1. "Meg Lemon". Cycling Australia website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  2. Whelan, Melanie (3 January 2018). "Same mission: para-cyclists hungry for national crown in Ballarat". The Courier News. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  3. "SA riders shine at Para-cycling world titles in LA". SASI website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  4. "Hicks, Lemon announce arrival on world stage". SASI website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  5. "2018 UCI Para-cycling World Championships". UCI website. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  6. "Para pursuit perfection- Petricola on top of the world". Australian Cycling Team website. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  7. "2019 World Para Cycling Road Championships". Votrecourse.com/. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  8. "Australia secure eight world titles at 2020 Para-cycling Track World Championships". Cycling Australia website. 3 February 2020. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
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