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Amanda Spratt
Australian cyclist

Amanda Spratt

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Intro
Australian cyclist
Work field
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Penrith, Australia
Age
36 years
Stats
Height:
161 cm
Weight:
55 kg
Sports Teams
Mitchelton-Scott
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Amanda Spratt (born 17 September 1987) is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Mitchelton–Scott.

Spratt was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics. In 2012, 2016 and 2020 she won the Australian National Road Race Championships in Buninyong, Victoria. In 2018, she secured the silver medal in the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria.

Personal

Nicknamed "Spratty", Spratt was born on 17 September 1987 in Penrith, New South Wales, which is a suburb of Sydney. She went to Springwood Public School before going to Blue Mountains Grammar School for high school. From 2007 to 2008, she attended Charles Sturt University where she earned a University Certificate in Business. As of 2012, she lived in Springwood, New South Wales.

Spratt is 161 centimetres (63 in) tall and weighs 55 kilograms (121 lb).

Cycling

Spratt is a road cyclist who began competitive cycling when she was twelve years old. She has been coached by Martin Barras since 2009 and is also coached by Gary Sutton. Her primary training base is in Australia's Blue Mountains region, with a secondary training base in Varase, Italy where she lives eight months a year. She is a member of the Penrith Cycling Club. She has held a cycling scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport and the NSW Institute of Sport.

Her first international race was at the 2004 World Junior Track Championships in the United States. She competed at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games. She competed at the 2004 Junior Road World Championships in Italy. She missed most of the 2009 cycling season because of a back injury. She competed at the 2010 UCI Road World Championships. She finished eleventh at the 2011 Giro di Toscana Femminile in Italy. She finished fourth at the 2011 Sweden World Cup teams time trial in Vårgårda, Sweden. She finished first at the 2011 Tour de Feminine Krasna Lipa in the Czech Republic. She finished eighth at the 2011 Women's Tour of New Zealand. She finished first in the road race and fourth in the individual time trial at the 2012 Australia Road National Championships in Buninyong, Australia. She finished second at the 2012 Jayco Bay Classicin Victoria, Australia. She finished fourth at the 2012 Ronde van Gelderland inthe Netherlands. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's road race, her first Olympics. She finished outside the time limit.

In 2018, Spratt elected to forgo a debut senior Commonwealth Games representation for Australia on the Gold Coast, to focus on an Ardennes campaign in Europe. She achieved her first ever one-day podium at World Tour or World Cup level, with a third placing at the Amstel Gold Race in April. Then in May, she won her first Women's World Tour race with a large enough leading margin to move up ten places on the final stage to also win the general classification at Emakumeen Euskal Bira.

Major results

2010
8th Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand
2012
National Road Championships
3rd 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
4th Ronde van Gelderland
7th GP Comune di Cornaredo
9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2015
1st Giro del Trentino Alto Adige - Südtirol
3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
4th Overall Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
6th SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn
8th Crescent Women World Cup Vargarda TTT
9th Overall Emakumeen Bira
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