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Grace Brown (cyclist)

Grace Brown (born 7 July 1992) is a former Australian road racing cyclist, specialising in road time trialling, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In her final year of professional cycling, Brown won the women's individual time trial event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the same event at the 2024 UCI World Road Cycling Championships and her fourth time trial title at the Australian Road Cycling Championships. She just missed out on a medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics women's time trial, finishing fourth. She also competed in the women's road race where she came 47th. She also won the monument classic Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femmes in the same year, and the time trial at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Career

2015–2018 seasons

Brown started cycling in 2015 after previously being involved in running. She started 2018 riding for Holden Team Gusto Racing. She then joined British UCI team for the latter part of 2018 season after being selected as the recipient of the Amy Gillett Cycling Scholarship. Her first race for was the Tour of California, a UCI Women's World Tour event, that was held in mid-May.

2019–2020 seasons

Brown joined the team at the start of the 2019 season. She had a good start to the 2019 season winning the Australian National Time Trial Championships and a stage at the Tour Down Under. She achieved her first major victory in Europe in the autumn of 2020 winning Brabantse Pijl in a solo breakaway. She was awarded AusCycling's Female Road Cyclist of the Year award for 2020.

2021 season

Brown started the 2021 season in Australia with second places in both the road race and time trial at the National Championships.

Brown had strong results in the 2021 Spring classics. She achieved her first victory in the Women's World Tour at Brugge-De Panne. She was also second at Nokere Koerse and third at the Tour of Flanders. She was selected in the Australian team to compete in the road race and time trial at the Tokyo Olympics. She finished fourth in the time trial.

In August 2021 Brown signed a two-year contract with French Women's WorldTeam . She ended the 2021 season early to have shoulder surgery.

2024 season

Brown won the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes in April. In June 2024 Brown announced her plan to retire from professional cycling at the end of the 2024 season and in the following month she won the Olympic time trial on very wet Parisian roads. In September, she won the time trial at the World Championships, becoming the first cyclist to win both the Olympic and World championship time trial races in the same season.

Post-cycling career

Brown was elected as president of The Cyclists' Alliance in October 2024.

Brown has worked as a commentator for SBS TV's cycling broadcasts in Australia. She also contributes a weekly podcast to SBS titled "Unclipped". In May 2025 she was named as race director for the women's version of a proposed revival of the Herald Sun Tour

Major results

2017
Oceania Continental Road Championships
:5th Time trial
:5th Road race
2018
Oceania Continental Road Championships
:1st Time trial
:2nd Road race
National Road Championships
:3rd Road race
:4th Time trial
5th Overall Tour Down Under
9th Overall Herald Sun Tour
2019
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under
8th Overall Herald Sun Tour
10th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
2020
1st Brabantse Pijl
National Road Championships
:2nd Time trial
:3rd Road race
2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
2021
1st Classic Brugge–De Panne
National Road Championships
:2nd Road race
:2nd Time trial
2nd Nokere Koerse
3rd Tour of Flanders
4th Clasica Femenina Navarra
4th Time trial, Olympic Games
5th La Course by Le Tour de France
6th Dwars door Vlaanderen
7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
:1st Stage 1
8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
2022
1st Time trial, Commonwealth Games
National Road Championships
:1st Time trial
:2nd Road race
1st La Périgord
1st Stage 3 Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta
2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
2nd Overall The Women's Tour
:1st Stage 4
2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
3rd Classic Lorient Agglomération
3rd GP de Plumelec-Morbihan
4th La Classique Morbihan
5th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
7th Tour of Flanders
2023
National Road Championships
:1st Time trial
:2nd Road race
1st Overall Tour Down Under
:1st Points classification
:1st Stage 3
1st Overall Bretagne Ladies Tour
:1st Stage 3 (ITT)
1st GP de Plumelec-Morbihan
2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
5th Overall Tour of Scandinavia
:1st Stage 4 (ITT)
6th Amstel Gold Race
6th Overall
2024
1st Time trial, Olympic Games
UCI Road World Championships
:1st Time trial
:1st Team relay
National Road Championships
:1st Time trial
:4th Road race
1st Overall Bretagne Ladies Tour
:1st Stage 1 (ITT) & 3
1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
5th Deakin University Road Race

Classics results timeline

Major championship results timeline

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