Australian Womens Multiple Commonwealth And Olympic Champion!! Kathryn (Kathy) Ann Watt (born 11 September 1964) is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain (gold in the road race, and silver in the pursuit). She has won 24 national championships in road racing, track racing, and mountain bike, four Commonwealth Games gold medals, and came third in the world time trial championship. She was made a life member of Blackburn Cycling Club in 1990. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. The daughter of marathoner Geoff Watt, Kathy Watt turned first to running, winning the national junior 3 km championship. She began to train on a bike after achilles tendon problems. For a while, she competed in duathlon (running and cycling), but found she was a better cyclist than runner. In 1996, Watt was in a legal dispute with the Australian Cycling Federation over who would race the pursuit in the Olympic Games. Watt had been told that she would be but was replaced a few days before the event by Lucy Tyler-Sharman. Watt appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, claiming a breach of contract. The court ordered Watt to be reinstated in the race. In 2000, Watt again became involved in a controversy over a selection, but this time she was not successful in her appeal to the CAS. She retired after 2000 but came back three years later but was not successful in an attempt to qualify for the 2004 Olympics. After another retirement, Watt worked as a coach and personal trainer. However, she made another comeback to qualify for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where she won a silver medal in the time trial. In January 2006, she won the time trial section of the Australian open road championship in Buninyong, Ballarat.[6] Watt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Melbourne, with a major in physiology and pathology. She studied nutrition, anatomy, and physiotherapy. She attended Tintern Church of England Girls Grammar, now Tintern Schools. Palmarès 1990 Commonwealth Games Road Race – 1st Track Pursuit – 2nd Giro dItalia Final Overall GC – 3rd 1 stage victory 1992 Olympic Games Road Race – Gold Medal 3 km Pursuit (track) – Silver Australian Road Race Championships – 1st 1994 Giro dItalia Final Overall GC – 2nd 3 stage victories Giro del Piave – 1st Canberra Stage Race Final Overall GC – 1st 5 stage victories 1995 World Time Trial Championship – 3rd 1996 Australian Championships Road Race – 2nd place Time Trial – 1st place 1997 Oceania Championships Road Race – 2nd place Time Trial – 1st place 1998 World Time Trial Championship – 6th GP des Nations Time Trial – 2nd Grande Boucle (Tour Cycliste Féminin) stage 12b – 3rd Tour Féminin de Bretagne Overall – 2nd Prologue – 2nd stage 1 – 1st stage 5 – 2nd Grazia Tour Overall – 2nd stage 2 – 2nd stage 3 – 3rd stage 4 – 1st Tour de lAude Overall – 7th Prologue (Gruissan) – 2nd stage 5 (Castelnaudary TT)- 2nd stage 6a (Axat to Belcaire) – 2nd GP Presov and Pravda Overall – 1st stage 1 (TT) – 1st stage 2 (Criterium) – 2nd stage 3 (Road Race) – 3rd stage 4 (Road Race) – 3rd 1999 Tour de Toona Overall – 2nd stage 2 – 3rd stage 4 – 2nd stage 5 – 1st Grazia Tour Overall – 7th stage 3 – 3rd Womens Challenge stage 4 (Sun Valley Time Trial) – 5th stage 9 (Burley to Buhl) – 2nd Tour de Snowy stage 5 – 3rd 2005 Chrono Champenois – 1st GP International Feminin Bretagne (cat. 2) – 2nd GC Thuringen-Rundfahrt (cat. 1) – stage 2006 Commonwealth Games Individual road time trial – 2nd Australian Open Road Championship Time Trial – 1st 2007 Australian Open Road Championship Time Trial – 2nd Road Race – 9th 1st Overall Tour de Perth 2008 Australian Open Road Championship Time Trial – 4th Road Race – 19th (above with help from Wikipedia)
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