Caroline Buchanan

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Caroline Buchanan
Personal information
Nickname(s) Caro
Nationality Australian
Born (1990-10-24) 24 October 1990 (age 33)
Canberra, Australia
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Website http://www.carolinebuchanan.com
Sport
Country  Australia
Sport Cycling
Event(s) Bicycle motocross(BMX)
Mountain biking
Achievements and titles
World finals 5 x BMX and Mountain Bike World Champion
Olympic finals London 2012 Olympic Finalist

Caroline Buchanan (born 24 October 1990) is an Australian cyclist who has won multiple world championships in BMX and mountain biking. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's BMX event.

Personal

Nicknamed Caro,[1] Buchanan was born on 24 October 1990 in Canberra, Australia.[1][2] She attended St John Vianney Weston Creek before going to high school at Merici College Braddon and Erindale College.[1] As of May 2012, she lives in the Australian Capital Territory.[3] Buchanan is 165 centimetres (65 in) tall and weighs 68 kilograms (150 lb).[1][4]

Cycling

Buchanan represents Australia in BMX and mountain biking.[4] She has been coached by Wade Bootes since 2007.[1] Her primary training base is on Queensland's Gold Coast.[1] She has a cycling scholarship with the ACT Academy of Sport.[1] She is a member of the Tuggeranong Vikings BMX Club.[1] She is 11× time Australian champion in BMX,[4] in 2011 World Championships Buchanan won silver medal at time trial. She is also the 2009 and 2010 4-X Champion.[2][3] She has earned the Australian Female Mountain bike rider of the year title three times.[1]

While Buchanan was one of the best Australian BMX riders in 2008, she was not eligible for the Olympics because of her age.[1] Following the 2008 issue, she added mountain biking to her cycling disciplines.[1]

During 2012, Buchanan was focused on BMX and earning an Olympic spot in the discipline.[3] In 2012, she won a round of the Supercross, becoming the first Australian woman to do so.[3] She had the two fastest runs at the 2012 time trial event at the World Championships in Birmingham, England.[3] In May 2012, she was ranked the number one women's BMX rider in the world.[3] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's BMX event.[1]

In September 2013 Buchanan won the elite women's title at the UCI World Four Cross Championships in Leogang, Austria. She beat Anneke Beerten (Netherlands) the defending world champion.[5] In July Buchanan also won the UCI BMX World Championships in New Zealand.[5] In 2103 she won the Sir Hubert Opperman Trophy for Australia's best all-round cyclist. She was the first person competing in BMX or mountain bike to win the award.[6][7]

In May 2016 Buchanan won the Elite Women's Time Trial at the World BMX Championships in Colombia[8] and was second to Mariana Pajon in the Elite Women's BMX race.

Results

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2016
20px 1st UCI BMX World Championships (Elite Women's Time Trial)
2nd UCI BMX World Championships (Elite Women)

References

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External links

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Australian Athlete of the Year
2013
(with Kim Crow)		 Succeeded by
Jessica Fox
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