Anna Meares
Anna Meares was born in Blackwater, in the small coal mining town of Middlemount on September 21, 1983 to Marilyn and Anothony who worked in the coal mining industry.
She grew up in the same town and went to Middlemount State School. She was the youngest of four children who all liked sport. She and her siblings tried many different sports, including; karate, BMX, swimming, triathlon and tennis but Anna and her sister were inspired by the cycling events in the 1994 Commonwealth Games that they watched on the television. They both joined a cycling club that they enjoyed and continued.
After finishing high school, Anna Meares moved on to the Central Queensland University but continued to train in cycling. She married Mark Chadwick who chose to separate after fifteen years, leaving Anna devastated. …show more content…
She first became first well known in 2000 when she represented Australia in her first international race meet at the junior World Titles in Italy.
On January 2008, seven months before the Beijing Olympics, she crashed in the third round of the World Cup circuit, fracturing her C2 vertebra, dislocating her right shoulder, suffering from torn ligaments and tendons and heavily bruising her right hip and skin abrasions as a result of skin sliding on wood when she crashed going at a speed of 65 kilometres per hour. She was told by doctors that she was two millimetres from needing the support of a respirator to breathe for the rest of her life. After this horrific accident, she courageously went back to cycling, ten days after the fall.
Excitement began when she became the youngest female track cyclist and the first female to represent Australia on the track to win Olympic Gold. “It was so exciting, I broke the World and Olympic record, riding a time of 33.952 seconds.” She travelled to many countries to represent Australia in
Anna Meares was born in Blackwater, in the small coal mining town of Middlemount on September 21, 1983 to Marilyn and Anothony who worked in the coal mining industry.
She grew up in the same town and went to Middlemount State School. She was the youngest of four children who all liked sport. She and her siblings tried many different sports, including; karate, BMX, swimming, triathlon and tennis but Anna and her sister were inspired by the cycling events in the 1994 Commonwealth Games that they watched on the television. They both joined a cycling club that they enjoyed and continued.
After finishing high school, Anna Meares moved on to the Central Queensland University but continued to train in cycling. She married Mark Chadwick who chose to separate after fifteen years, leaving Anna devastated. …show more content…
She first became first well known in 2000 when she represented Australia in her first international race meet at the junior World Titles in Italy.
On January 2008, seven months before the Beijing Olympics, she crashed in the third round of the World Cup circuit, fracturing her C2 vertebra, dislocating her right shoulder, suffering from torn ligaments and tendons and heavily bruising her right hip and skin abrasions as a result of skin sliding on wood when she crashed going at a speed of 65 kilometres per hour. She was told by doctors that she was two millimetres from needing the support of a respirator to breathe for the rest of her life. After this horrific accident, she courageously went back to cycling, ten days after the fall.
Excitement began when she became the youngest female track cyclist and the first female to represent Australia on the track to win Olympic Gold. “It was so exciting, I broke the World and Olympic record, riding a time of 33.952 seconds.” She travelled to many countries to represent Australia in