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Caroline Alexander

Caroline Sarah J. Alexander (born 3 March 1968) is a cross-country mountain biker and road cyclist born in Barrow-in-Furness. She was a swimmer as a child and did not cycle until she was 20. She first rode a bike in competition in a triathlon: she came second in the swimming and was fastest on the bike. She entered her first mountain bike race, which she won. Within a year she was one of the top three mountain-bike racers in the UK. She left her job as a draughtswoman in Barrow shipyards and became a full-time cyclist.

She represented Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She was a reserve for the British Cycling team at the 2001 UCI road world championships Alexander also represented Britain at the UCI Women's Road World Cup events in 2002. Alexander represented Scotland in the first mountain-bike event in the Commonwealth Games in 2002.

She was the first British female mountain biker to win a UCI World Cup stage in 1997.

Alexander retired from cycling in 2004. In 2009, she was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame.

Major results

1993
1st National XC Championships
2nd UEC European XC Championships
1994
1st National XC Championships
2nd Overall UCI XC World Cup
1995
1st UEC European XC Championships
1st National XC Championships
1996
1st Overall Mountain Bike Tour of Britain
:1st 6 Stages
UCI XC World Cup
:2nd Bromont
:3rd Helen
1997
1st National XC Championships
UCI XC World Cup
:1st Sankt Wendel
:2nd Špindlerův Mlýn
1998
1st National CX Championships
2000
1st Stage 3 Redlands Bicycle Classic
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Sea Otter TT
2001
1st Overall Sea Otter Classic
2nd Overall UCI XC World Cup
:2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
:3rd Durango
6th UCI World XC Championships
2002
1st National XC Championships
UCI XC World Cup
:2nd Houffalize
5th Cross-country, Commonwealth Games
7th La Flèche Wallonne

References