Meg Lemon

Meg Lemon (born 5 October 1989) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She represented Austalia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics where she won a bronze medal.[1]

Meg Lemon
Meg Lemon in 2019
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1989-10-05) 5 October 1989
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportCycling
Disability classC4
ClubPort Adelaide Cycling Club
Medal record
Cycling
Paralympic Games
2020 TokyoRoad Time Trial C4
UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships
2017 PietermaritzburgWomen's Time Trial C4
2017 PietermaritzburgWomen's Road Race C4
2018 ManiagoWomen's Time Trial C4
2019 EmmenWomen's Time Trial C4
2019 EmmenWomen's Road Race Trial C4
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
2018 RioWomen's Pursuit C4
2019 ApeldoornWomen's Scratch Race C4
2019 ApeldoornWomen's Pursuit C4
2020 MiltonWomen's Pursuit C4

Personal

Lemon was born on 5 October 1989.[2] 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 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.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5] 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 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, Maniago, Italy she won the bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial C4 and finished fourth in the Women's Road Race C4.[6]

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she won the silver medal in the Women's Scratch Race C4 and the bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4.[7]

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Emmen, Netherlands, she won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Road Race C4.[8]

At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Milton, Ontario, she won the silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4.[9]

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Lemon won the bronze medal in the Women's Road Time Trial C4 and finished fourth in Women's Individual Pursuit C4, ninth Mixed Team Sprint C1–5 and eight in Women's Road Race C4-5.

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

References
  1. "World And Paralympic Champions Feature Among Tokyo-Bound Para-Cyclists". Paralympics Australia. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Meg Lemon". Cycling Australia website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  3. Whelan, Melanie (3 January 2018). "Same mission: para-cyclists hungry for national crown in Ballarat". The Courier News. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  4. "SA riders shine at Para-cycling world titles in LA". SASI website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  5. "Hicks, Lemon announce arrival on world stage". SASI website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  6. "2018 UCI Para-cycling World Championships". UCI website. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  7. "Para pursuit perfection- Petricola on top of the world". Australian Cycling Team website. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  8. "2019 World Para Cycling Road Championships". Votrecourse.com/. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  9. "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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