Katie Mactier (born 23 March 1975 in Melbourne) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She began racing in 1999 at 24 and was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne.
She is a member of the Carnegie Caulfield Cycling Club. She lives in Melbourne, Australia with her 2 Children, Charlie & Lachie.
She won the pursuit at the 2005 world championship, the 2005 World Cup and the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. At the Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics Mactier broke the world record in the heats in the pursuit, but Sarah Ulmer set a new record in the final, relegating her to a silver medal.
In 2001 Mactier won in the national road championship. In 2002/2003 she was the Australian pursuit champion, and second in the 2003 world pursuit championship. She was 2003 and 2005 Australian Female Track Cyclist of the Year.
She was a favourite in the pursuit at the 2008 Olympics but ended seventh overall after being defeated by eventual winner Rebecca Romero of Great Britain in her qualifying round.
Palmarès
2001
1st Australian National Road Race Championships
1st Valdengo-Biella
1st Sprint Classification Skilled Bay Series
2003
1st Trofeo Guareschi
1st Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix
1st Overall Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
1st Stage 3 Geelong Women's Tour
1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
2nd Pursuit, World Championships
2nd Road World Cup Geelong
2nd Overall Geelong Women's Tour
2nd T-Mobile International
2004
1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
1st Stage 1 Geelong Tour
2nd Olympic Individual Pursuit (silver medal) 2nd Pursuit, World Championships 2nd Overall Geelong Tour 1st Pursuit, World Cup, Los Angeles 2005 1st Pursuit, World Championships 1st Pursuit, World Cup 1st Pursuit Oceania Titles 2006 1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships 1st Jayco Bay Cycling Classic AUS 1st Individual Pursuit, 2006 Commonwealth Games 3:30.290; 1st Pursuit, World Cup, Sydney 2007 3rd Pursuit, World Championships 1st Australian National Road Race Championships 1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships 1st Pursuit, World Cup, Sydney 1st Pursuit, World Cup, Beijing 1st Oceania Individual Pursuit 1st Stage 1 Mount Hood Cycling Classic 1st Stage 2 Mount Hood Cycling Classic 2nd Stage 6 Mount Hood Cycling Classic 2nd Stage 3 Nature Valley Grand Prix 3rd Stage 4 Mount Hood Cycling Classic 2008 1st Prelude, 2008 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin (cat. 1) 4th Individual pursuit, 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Sources
External links
Australian Cycling Federation Profile
Cyclingnews.com 2007 Australian Open Road Championships
Katie Mactier's website
2008 Olympic Results
1975 births
Living people
Australian female cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Australia
Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
People educated at Wesley College (Victoria) Sportswomen from Victoria (state) Olympic medalists in cycling Australian Institute of Sport cyclists UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women) Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling Australian track cyclists 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women Cyclists from Melbourne Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games