Georgia Baker (born 21 September 1994) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She rode in the women's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
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Cycling career
After taking a break from road racing in 2016 with the High5 Dream Team to focus on her Rio Olympics campaign, Orica-Scott announced signing Baker to race in the Women's World Tour team for 2017.
In her first European race for the Orica-Scott team at the end of May, Baker was among the 90 non-finishers of 121 that started at Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik.
Georgia in her second race on the opening stage at The Women's Tour at the start of June after a racing heart and sharp pains were felt in her chest and arm, exercising caution having lost her father to a heart attack in 2015, she withdrew from the race. She was diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia, while not life-threatening, needed to be treated to continue as an athlete. She was booked in for surgery in early August, in the hopes to resume training for a mixed road and track season in the run up to the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Following a successful surgery, Georgia starts a three month training block in Australia before racing at the Oceania Track Championships in November 2017.
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Major results
- 2014
- 2nd Team Pursuit, Oceania Track Championships (with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Lauren Perry, Rebecca Wiasak and Elissa Wundersitz)
- 2015
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st Individual Pursuit
- 1st Omnium
- 2nd Points Race
- 2nd Team Pursuit (with Macey Stewart, Lauren Perry and Elissa Wundersitz)
- 2nd Madison, Austral (with Danielle McKinnirey)
- 2016
- 1st Points race, Oceania Track Championships
References
External links
- Georgia Baker at Cycling Archives
- Georgia Baker at ProCyclingStats
Source of article : Wikipedia
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