Katie Mactier
# Katie Mactier

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

* ↑ AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
* ↑ "Wesley Olympians". Wesley College. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
