Madison Janssen
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{{MedalSport |Women's cycling}}
{{MedalCountry | {{AUS}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|UCI BMX World Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2013 Auckland | 17 and over women}}
{{MedalSilver| 2003 Perth | 9 girls}}
{{MedalSilver| 2008 Taiyuan | 14 girls}}
{{MedalCompetition|UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2016 Montichiari|Women's sprint B}}
{{MedalBronze|2016 Montichiari|Women's 1 km time trial B}}
{{MedalSilver|2018 Rio|Women's 1 km Time Trial B}}
{{MedalSilver|2018 Rio|Women's Sprint B}}
{{MedalCompetition|Summer Paralympic Games}}
{{MedalBronze | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Women's 1 km Time Trial B }}
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Madison Janssen (born 13 November 1994) is an Australian cyclist. She is a world champion, multiple national champion and a world record holder. In May 2016 she was named as part of the Australian cycling team as the sighted pilot for Jessica Gallagher for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, where they won a bronze medal in the Women's 1000m time trial.
Personal
Madison Janssen was born in Queensland on 13 November 1994, the youngest of three children. She began BMX riding when she was five years old, after seeing her father and brother playing around on bicycles.{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org.au/athlete/madison-janssen/ |title=Madison Janssen |date=29 May 2016 |publisher=Australian Paralympic Committee |access-date=31 May 2016 }}
Career
She won national championships in her age division in 2004, 2007 and 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.t2.bvit.com.au/?ID=37558 |publisher=BMX Australia |title=Madison Janssen |access-date=31 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605074710/http://www.t2.bvit.com.au/?ID=37558 |archive-date=5 June 2016 |df=dmy-all }} She was runner-up at the UCI BMX World Championships in her age division in 2003 in Perth,{{cite web |url=http://bmxultra.com/archive/news/2003/results/2003_uci_world_titles_results.htm |title=2003 UCI BMX World Titles results |publisher=bmxultra.com |date=26 July 2003 |access-date=31 May 2016 }} and 2008 in Taiyuan, China,{{cite web |url=http://www.bmxmania.com/14girls0488sm.jpg |publisher=BMX Mania |title=2008 UCI BMX World Championships – Finish Report – 14 girls |access-date=31 May 2016 }} before winning in the 17 and over division at the 2013 UCI BMX World Championships in Auckland in 2013.{{cite web |url=http://bmxultra.com/news/australias-six-new-amatuer-world-champions/ |title=Australia's six new amateur world champions |publisher=bmxultra.com |date=26 July 2013 |access-date=31 May 2016 }}
Janssen decided to switch to track cycling. On 18 May 2015, she received a call from Glenn Doney, the head coach at the Victorian Institute of Sport, who informed her that the visually impaired Paralympic athlete and skier Jessica Gallagher intended to qualify for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro as a track cyclist, and needed a tandem bicycle pilot.{{cite web |url=http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/zela/article/2016/05/13/athlete-blog-how-maddie-janssen-became-tandem-bike-pilot |title=Athlete Blog: how Maddie Janssen became a tandem bike pilot |publisher=Special Broadcasting Service |access-date=31 May 2016 }} Janssen later recalled her first ride with Gallagher:{{blockquote|I've only ridden a boarded track three times. I was a little nervous, then having to go on it on the tandem, made me even more nervous, then putting Jess on the back – even more terrifying – THEN Glenn decided our first effort would be a flying 200 m, let's just say I was on a whole new level of scared, this was probably the most scariest thing I had ever done.}}
File:Gallagher and Janssen.jpg (right) are all smiles after winning a bronze medal in the Women's B/VI 1000m time trial final]]
At the national championships in Adelaide in December 2015, they won the women's 1 km tandem event in a time of 1:09.597, inside the 1:10 qualifying time for the world championships.{{cite news |url=http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/sport/local-sport/paralympian-jess-gallagher-to-represent-australia-in-third-sport/news-story/42a908bba1e371fe49570af6fbb7ac81 |title=Paralympian Jess Gallagher to represent Australia in third sport |date=18 December 2015 |first=Nick |last=Wade |newspaper=Geelong Advertiser |access-date=31 May 2016 }} The next step was the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Montichiari in Italy in March 2016. In the women's tandem 1 km time trial they posted a time of 1:07.575, which was good enough to win bronze.{{cite web |url=http://www.cycling.org.au/Para-Cycling/News/gallagher-gold-headlines-six-medal-haul-on-day-three |title=Gallagher gold headlines six medal haul on day three |publisher=Cycling Australia |access-date=31 May 2016 }} The following day they beat British defending world champions Sophie Thornhill and Helen Scott in the flying 200 m event in a world record time of 11.045 seconds, breaking the record of 11.112 seconds set by Brandie O'Connor and Breanna Hargrave in April 2014.{{cite web |url=http://www.uci.ch/para-cycling/news/article/uci-para-cycling-track-world-championships-fachie-untouchable-the-sprint/ |title=UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships: Fachie untouchable in the sprint! |publisher=UCI |access-date=31 May 2016 }} Their selection for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro was announced on 30 May 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.paralympic.org.au/australian-paralympic-cycling-team-announced/ |title=Australian Paralympic Cycling Team announced |publisher=Australian Paralympic Committee |access-date=31 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810162020/https://www.paralympic.org.au/australian-paralympic-cycling-team-announced/ |archive-date=10 August 2016 }} On 9 September they won a bronze medal in the Women's 1000m time trial.{{cite web |url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/cycling-track-womens-b-1000m-time-trial |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922201840/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/cycling-track-womens-b-1000m-time-trial |access-date=11 September 2016 |archive-date=22 September 2016 |title=Womens B 1000m Time Trial Schedule & Results – Paralympic Cycling Track |publisher=Rio 2016 }}
On 5 March 2017, Janssen came second in the Keirin at the 2017 Australian Track Championships.{{cite web |url=http://liveresults.cycling.org.au/2017/TrackNats/TrackNats_result.html |title=2017 Australian Elite & U19 Track Championships live results |publisher=Cycling Australia |access-date=9 May 2017}}
At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Janssen piloted Jessica Gallagher to silver medals in the Women's Tandem Time Trial and Sprint.{{cite web|title=10 medals for Australia at Para Track Worlds|url=http://www.australiancyclingteam.com/news/10-medals-for-australia-at-para-track-worlds|website=Cycling Australia website|access-date=3 April 2018}}
References
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External links
- {{Paralympics Australia|madison-janssen}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160605074710/http://www.t2.bvit.com.au/?ID=37558 BMX Australia Profile]
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