Georgia Baker
Personal information | |
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Born |
Launceston, Tasmmania, Australia | 21 September 1994
Team information | |
Current team | Orica–Scott |
Discipline |
Track Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Track Endurance |
Amateur team(s) | |
- | Northern Districts Cycling Club[1] |
2013 | Team Polygon Australia[2] |
2014 | Jayco/Apollo VIS[3] |
Professional team(s) | |
2014 | Wiggle–Honda[4] |
2015-2016 | High5 Dream Team[5] |
2017 | Orica–Scott |
2018- | TIS Racing[6] |
Georgia Baker (born 21 September 1994) is an Australian professional racing cyclist.[7] She rode in the women's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.[8]
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.[9]
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.[10]
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.[11]
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.[12] Following a successful surgery, Georgia starts a three month training block in Australia before racing at the Oceania Track Championships in November 2017.[13]
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)
- 1st
- 2nd Madison, Austral (with Danielle McKinnirey)
- 2016
- 1st
Points race, Oceania Track Championships
References
- ↑ "HPU Rider Profiles, Georgia Baker". Cycling Australia. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ "TEAM POLYGON AUSTRALIA". Polygon Bikes Team. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ Woodpower, Zeb (15 August 2014). "NRS team feature: Jayco/Apollo VIS Women's Team". Cycling News. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ "Georgia Baker Makes Home Debut For Wiggle Honda At Launceston Classic". Wiggle High5. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ↑ "New Australian women's cycling team High5 Dream Team launched". The Guardian. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ Fair, Alex (6 November 2017). "Devonport's Macey Stewart signed by Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling Team for 2018". The Advocate. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ↑ "Georgia Baker". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
- ↑ Qualifying results
- ↑ "Final signing confirms the complete ORICA-AIS team for 2017". GreenEDGE Cycling. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ "Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik". UCI. 28 May 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ Homfray, Reece (28 June 2017). "The Coffee Ride #147, with Reece Homfray". The Advertiser. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ Smith, Adam (21 July 2017). "Tasmanian cycling star Georgia Baker all set for surgery to overcome heart complaint". The Mercury. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ↑ Smith, Adam (12 August 2017). "Now the surgery is over, Baker is back on track for Gold Coast". The Mercury. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
External links
- Georgia Baker at Cycling Archives
- Georgia Baker at ProCyclingStats