Annette Edmondson

{{Infobox cyclist

| name = Annette Edmondson

| image = Annette Edmondson (AUS) 2018.jpg

| caption = Edmondson in 2018

| nickname = Nettie

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1991|12|12}}

| birth_place = Adelaide, Australia

| height = 1.70 m

| weight = 65 kg

| currentteam = Norwood CC

| disciplines = {{unbulleted list|Track|Road}}

| role = Rider

| ridertype = {{unbulleted list|Endurance (Track)|Sprinter (Road)}}

| amateuryears1 = 2007–

| amateurteam1 = Norwood CC

| amateuryears2 = 2011

| amateurteam2 = AIS Women's Track Endurance

| proyears1 = 2012–2013

| proteam1 = Team Jayco–AIS

| proyears2 = 2013–2014

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|GEW2|2013}}

| proyears3 = 2015–2018

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|WHT|2015}}

| majorwins = Tour of Chongming Island (2013)
Pajot Hills Classic (2017)

| show-medals = no

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCountry|{{flagu|Australia}}}}

{{MedalCountry|{{UCI team code|GEW2|2014}}}}

}}

Annette Edmondson (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian former cyclist who competed on the track with Cycling Australia's High Performance Unit (HPU). She also competed on the road for the {{UCI team code|WHT|2018}} team between 2015 and 2018.

Her greatest successes were the three gold medals she won at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the omnium and team pursuit,{{cite web |url=https://www.velonews.com/news/vn-news-ticker-annette-edmondson-announces-retirement-alpecin-fenix-signs-jakub-mareczko/ |title=VN news ticker: Annette Edmondson announces retirement, Alpecin-Fenix signs Jakub Mareczko |author= |date=6 December 2021 |website=VeloNews |access-date=25 December 2021}} a competition in which she also secured further silver medals in the omnium (2012) and team pursuit (2012 and 2013). Edmondson also competed in the London 2012 Olympics, securing a bronze medal for Australia in the women's Omnium and finishing in fourth place in the Team pursuit. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games she claimed a silver in the individual pursuit and a gold in the scratch race, her first gold medal at an international level and her first Commonwealth title. In addition, she has competed at the National Track Championships with gold medal results at an elite level since 2012 in multiple disciplines.

Early life

Edmondson was born in Adelaide, but due to her parents' careers at Royal Dutch Shell, she spent the early part of her childhood living in Malaysia, Oman and the Netherlands. However, when she was six, the family returned to her father's native land of Australia.

She attended the Victor Harbor Primary School, south of Adelaide, South Australia, later moving to St John's Grammar School in the Adelaide Hills where she took up numerous pursuits, including soccer and athletics.

Career

When she was 13, the South Australian Sports Institute visited her school and she was identified as having the physical attributes to have a potential career in cycling. After a year in the Talent Search Program, her first major win came at the 2006 National Junior Track Championships where she won two bronze medals in the Under 17 500m Time Trial and Sprint. From that point, she began to specialise in sprint cycling and as a junior won sprint events at a National and Oceania level.

In 2010, she took part in her first elite level National Championships finishing with silvers in the Team sprint, Keirin and 500m TT as well as a bronze in the Individual sprint.

However, Edmondson began to lose interest in the sport and took a break from cycling. In spite of her doubt, she returned to training just four months later, but she wanted a change and therefore made the switch from sprint to endurance cycling. Eight months later, she had successfully made the switch by becoming the Australian Omnium and Scratch Race champion.

Her first World Championships came in 2012 at the UCI World Championships in Melbourne in which she achieved silver in both the Omnium and Team Pursuit. These results helped her secure a place in the 2012 Australian Olympic Team.

In London, she took part in two events of the Olympic Track Cycling Schedule. In the Team Pursuit, the Australian squad secured 4th place, missing out on the bronze medal. It was her performance in the 6 events of the Omnium resulted in her claiming the bronze medal.{{Cite web |title=Annette Edmonson at Olympics.com |url=https://olympics.com/en/athletes/annette-edmondson |access-date=3 June 2023 |website=www.olympics.com}}

After the Olympics, in 2013, she signed a professional road contract with Orica–AIS, in her first season with the team, she secured a major victory taking 1st overall in the Tour of Chongming Island.{{Cite web |last=Bromhead |first=Nat |date=2022-03-18 |title=Annette Edmondson: Looking Back At 10 Years Of Top Level Road & Track |url=https://bicyclingaustralia.com.au/news/annette-edmondson-looking-back-at-10-years-of-top-level-road-track/ |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=Bicycling Australia |language=en-AU}} Her and teammates took 3rd in the 2013 World Road Race Championships TTT in Florence, Italy.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Edmondson claimed a silver in the Individual Pursuit along with fellow athlete Amy Cure who took a bronze in the event. On the 3rd day of competition (26 July 2014), Edmondson took part in the 10 km Scratch Race, where she raced to victory taking her 1st Commonwealth Games Gold Medal and again fellow athlete Amy Cure also succeeded coming out with a silver medal from the event.

On 22 October 2014, {{UCI team code|WHT|2014}} announced that Edmondson had signed with the team for the 2015 season,{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/edmondson-signs-for-wiggle-honda|title=Edmonson signs for Wiggle–Honda|website=cyclingnews.com|date=22 October 2014|access-date=16 August 2016}} where she remained until the team disbanded at the end of the 2018 season.

Alongside her road racing, she continued to compete in track cycling. At the 2015 World Championships, she won gold in the omnium and the team pursuit.

At the 2016 Olympics, she competed in the team pursuit (the Australian team finished 5th) and the omnium (finishing in 8th).

She competed at the 2019 World Championships, winning gold in the team pursuit.

Edmondson qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She was a member of the Women's pursuit team. The team consisting of Ashlee Ankudinoff, Georgia Baker, Annette Edmondson, Alexandra Manly, Maeve Plouffe finished fifth.{{Cite web|title=Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo 2021|url=https://www.theroar.com.au/olympics/australian-olympic-team/|access-date=2022-01-14|website=The Roar}} She also competed in the omnium and the madison events.

Edmondson retired from competition after the conclusion of the 2021 UCI Track Champions League in December of that year, having finished third in the women's endurance standings.

Personal life

Edmondson has had a number of high-profile relationships with fellow Australian cyclists including Michael Hepburn, Jack Bobridge and Kelland O'Brien

Edmondson has also had an interest in charity work from a young age. Her first recognition of her work came in 2007 in which she became "Make Indigenous Poverty History Youth Ambassador for SA". Since then, she has made personal visits to deprived areas, such as parts of Indonesia to give up her time as volunteer. She is fluent in Indonesian.{{Cite web|url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/cycling-track/athlete-profile-n6028631-annette-edmondson.htm|title=Annette Edmondson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217224038/https://results.gc2018.com/en/cycling-track/athlete-profile-n6028631-annette-edmondson.htm|archive-date=17 December 2018|url-status=live|access-date=18 December 2018}}

Edmondson has two brothers; her younger brother Alex Edmondson is also a professional cyclist.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/commonwealth-games/australias-silver-siblings-annette-and-alex-edmondson-step-up-at-commonwealth-games/news-story/8c8b0a7987b082d8fa7d34cdf5218f49|title=Australia's silver siblings Annette and Alex Edmondson step up at Commonwealth Games|work=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|date=25 July 2014|access-date=16 August 2016}}

Major results

=Track=

;2007

: Oceania Junior Track Championships

::1st 20px Sprint

::1st 20px Team sprint (with Chloe Hosking)

::1st 20px Scratch

: 3rd 15px Keirin, Oceania Track Championships

;2008

: National Junior Track Championships

::1st 20px 500m time trial

::1st 20px Sprint

::1st 20px Keirin

: 2nd 15px Sprint, UCI Junior Track World Championships

: 3rd Team sprint, National Track Championships

;2009

: National Junior Track Championships

::1st 20px Sprint

::1st 20px Scratch

::1st 20px 500m time trial

::2nd Keirin

: 3rd 15px Keirin, UCI Junior Track World Championships

;2010

: National Track Championships

::2nd Team sprint

::2nd Keirin

::2nd 500m time trial

::3rd Sprint

;2011

: National Track Championships

::1st 20px Omnium

::1st 20px Scratch

::3rd Team pursuit

;2012

: National Track Championships

::1st 20px Individual pursuit

::1st 20px Points race

::2nd Scratch

: UCI Track Cycling World Championships

::2nd 15px Omnium

::2nd 15px Team pursuit

: 3rd 15px Omnium, Olympic Games

;2013

: Oceania Track Championships

::1st 20px Points race

::1st 20px Omnium

::2nd 15px Team pursuit

: National Track Championships

::1st 20px Omnium

::1st 20px Individual pursuit

::1st 20px Points race

::1st 20px Scratch

: 1st 6 Giorni delle Rose Omnium

: 1st Invercargill Scratch race

: UCI Track Cycling World Championships

::2nd 15px Team pursuit

::3rd 15px Individual pursuit

::3rd 15px Omnium

;2014

: Oceania Track Championships

::1st 20px Individual pursuit

::1st 20px Omnium

: Commonwealth Games

::1st 15px Scratch

::2nd 15px Individual pursuit

: National Track Championships

::1st 20px Scratch

::1st 20px Points race

::1st 20px Omnium

::1st 20px Madison (with Jessica Mundy)

::2nd Individual pursuit

::3rd Team pursuit

: UCI Track Cycling World Championships

::3rd 15px Omnium

::3rd 15px Team pursuit

;2015

: UCI Track Cycling World Championships

::1st 20px Omnium

::1st 20px Team pursuit

: 1st 20px Omnium, Oceania Track Championships

: 1st Omnium, South Australian Grand Prix

: 1st Omnium, Super Drome Cup

: 1st Madison, Austral (with Julie Leth)

: National Track Championships

::1st 20px Madison (with Jessica Mundy)

::2nd Individual pursuit

::2nd Team pursuit

;2016

: Oceania Track Championships

::1st 20px Team pursuit (with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Amy Cure and Alexandra Manly)

::1st 20px Madison (with Amy Cure)

: National Track Championships

::1st 20px Scratch{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/moolman-pasio-skips-south-african-time-trial-defense-due-to-illness-venter-claims-title-womens-n/ |title=Moolman-Pasio skips South African time trial defense due to illness, Venter claims title – Women's News Shorts|date=10 February 2016 |website=cyclingnews.com|access-date=11 February 2016}}

::1st 20px Points race

;2018

: Commonwealth Games

::1st 15px Team pursuit (with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Amy Cure and Alexandra Manly)

::3rd 15px Individual pursuit

: National Track Championships

::1st 20px Team pursuit (with Breanna Hargrave, Alexandra Manly, and Maeve Plouffe)

::2nd Madison (with Alexandra Manly)

;2019

: 1st 20px Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships

;2021

: 3rd Endurance classification UCI Track Cycling Champions League

=Road=

;2011

: 8th Road race, Oceania Road Championships

;2012

: National Road Championships

::2nd Under-23 criterium

::3rd Criterium

: 8th Road race, Oceania Road Championships

;2013

: 1st Overall Tour of Chongming Island

::1st Stage 3

: 1st Stage 4 Belgium Tour

: 3rd 15px Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships

: 9th Dwars door de Westhoek

;2014

: 1st Points classification Adelaide Tour

: 2nd 15px Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships

;2015

: 1st 20px Sprints classification Women's Tour Down Under

: 4th RideLondon Grand Prix{{cite web |url=http://www.skysports.com/cycling/news/15264/9932177/laura-trott-misses-out-in-ridelondon-grand-prix |title=Laura Trott misses out in RideLondon Grand Prix|date=1 August 2015 |publisher=Sky Sports |access-date=2 August 2015}}

: 7th Overall BeNe Ladies Tour

;2016

: 1st Stage 2 Women's Tour Down Under{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/santos-womens-tour-2016/stage-2/results/ |title=Nettie Edmondson steals the show with Santos Women's Tour stage two win |last1=Braverman |first1=Jessi |date=17 January 2016 |website=cyclingnews.com|access-date=19 January 2016}}

;2017

: 1st Pajot Hills Classic{{cite web |url=http://www.wigglehighfive.com/nettie-edmondson-takes-powerful-sprint-victory-in-pajot-hills-classic/ |title=Nettie Edmondson takes powerful sprint victory in Pajot Hills Classic}}

: 3rd Overall BeNe Ladies Tour

::1st Prologue

: 10th Overall Tour of Chongming Island

;2018

: 1st Towards Zero Race Melbourne

: 1st Stage 1 Women's Tour Down Under

;2019

: 4th Dwars door de Westhoek

;2021

: National Road Championships

::1st 20px Criterium