Alison Jackson (cyclist)

Alison Jackson (née Farkash; born 14 December 1988) is a Canadian professional racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's ProTeam EF Education–Oatly.^[7] Since turning professional, Jackson has taken eleven victories – including the Canadian National Road Race Championships three times (2021, 2023 and 2025), the Canadian National Time Trial Championships in 2021, and in April 2023, she won Paris–Roubaix Femmes, described as the "biggest win of her career".^[8]

Alison Jackson

Jackson at the 2019 Women's Tour of Scotland
Personal information
Full name	Alison Jackson
Born	Alison Farkash (1988-12-14) 14 December 1988 (age 36) Vermilion, Alberta, Canada[1]
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Team information
Current team	EF Education–Oatly
Disciplines	Road Gravel
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional teams
2015–2016	Twenty16 p/b Sho-Air
2017	Bepink–Cogeas
2018–2019	Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank[2]
2020	Team Sunweb[3]
2021–2022	Liv Racing[4][5]
2023	EF Education–Tibco–SVB[6]
2024–	EF Education–Cannondale
Major wins
Major Tours La Vuelta Femenina 1 individual stage (2024) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2021, 2023, 2025) National Time Trial Championships (2021) Paris–Roubaix (2023)
Medal record Women's road bicycle racing Representing  Canada Pan American Championships 2023 Panama City Road race 2023 Panama City Time trial

Early life

Jackson was born and raised on a bison farm in rural Alberta, the second of three children. As a young adult, she competed in triathlon,^[9] subsequently being offered a running scholarship at Trinity Western University. After graduating in 2014 with a degree in human kinetics, kinesiology and exercise science,^[1] Jackson made the decision to focus on cycling.^[10]

Career

2015–2019

Jackson signed her first professional contract in 2015 for Twenty16 p/b Sho-Air.^[1] During her time at the team, she won stages at the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche and the Trophée d'Or Féminin.^[11][12] She also rode for Twenty16 p/b Sho-Air in the women's team time trial at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships.^[13] She moved to Bepink–Cogeas for the 2017 season, before moving again in 2018, to Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank.^[2] During her time at Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank, Jackson won the second stage of the 2019 Women's Tour of Scotland,^[14] finishing second to Leah Thomas in the overall general classification.^[15]

2020s

Jackson moved to Team Sunweb for the 2020 season,^[3] competing in only eleven races due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jackson moved to Liv Racing for the 2021 season.^[5] That July, Jackson received a last minute quota spot to enter the road race competition at the pandemic-delayed 2020 Summer Olympics,^[16] with Jackson finishing 32nd.^[17] Following her wins in both the Canadian National Road Race Championships and the Canadian National Time Trial Championships, and a sixth-place finish in the women's road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Belgium,^[18] Jackson signed a contract extension with Liv Racing.^[19] She won the points classification at the 2022 Tour of Scandinavia,^[20] and finished second in both the Canadian National Road Race Championships and the Drentse Acht van Westerveld, but took no individual victories.

At the end of the 2022 season, Jackson returned to the now-named EF Education–Tibco–SVB team for the 2023 season, having ridden for the team in 2018 and 2019.^[6] That April, Jackson won Paris–Roubaix Femmes in a sprint finish, which was described as the "biggest victory of her career".^[8] She also won two medals at the Pan American Road Championships in Panama – finishing third in the time trial and second to Skylar Schneider in the road race – and a second Canadian National Road Race Championships title, won in her home province of Alberta. EF Education–Tibco–SVB folded at the end of the 2023 season, with Jackson joining EF Education–Cannondale for 2024. Her first victory with the team came when she won the second stage of La Vuelta Femenina, winning the sprint into Moncofa.^[21] She also contested several gravel cycling races, including the British National Championships route, in which she was the first rider to finish.^[22]

In 2025, and after top-ten placings at Paris–Roubaix (fifth) and the Amstel Gold Race (seventh),^[23][24] Jackson won the Gracia–Orlová stage race – her first general classification victory^[25] – also winning a stage,^[26] and the points classification. She then won the Canadian National Road Race Championships for the third time in five years, winning by more than a minute in Saint-Georges, Quebec.^[27]

Major results

Source: ^[28]

2014

1st Overall Tour de White Rock

1st Stage 1

Tour de Delta

2nd MK Delta Criterium

6th Brenco Criterium

9th White Spot / Delta Road Race

2015

National Road Championships

1st Criterium

4th Road race

7th Time trial

1st Heusden

1st Points classification, Tour of the Gila

2nd Massemen

2nd Haasdonk

3rd Overall Tour de White Rock

3rd Profronde van Oostvoorne

4th Ridderronde Maastricht

5th De Klinge

6th Overall Chico Stage Race

1st Stages 1 & 4

6th Draai van de Kaai

6th Maria-Ter-Heide

7th Overall Tour of California

7th Gastown Grand Prix

8th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic

1st Stage 1

8th Cityronde van Tiel

10th Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau

2016

1st Stage 6 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche

1st Stage 1 Chico Stage Race

1st Stage 2 (TTT) Tour of California

2nd Overall Tour de Murrieta

2nd Overall Tour de White Rock

3rd White Spot / Delta Road Race

3rd Giro di Burnaby

3rd PoCo Grand Prix

4th Overall Valley of the Sun

1st Stages 2 & 3

5th Road race, National Road Championships

5th Gastown Grand Prix

6th Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau

Winston-Salem Cycling Classic

6th Road race

6th Criterium

Tour de Delta

6th Brenco Criterium

6th MK Delta Criterium

8th Overall Cascade Cycling Classic

8th Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin

1st Stage 3

9th Chrono Gatineau

10th Philadelphia Cycling Classic

2017

1st Romanengo ITT

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Setmana Ciclista Valenciana

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

2018

1st Oudenaarde–GP de President

2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau

National Road Championships

4th Road race

5th Time trial

5th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic

6th Overall Belgium Tour

6th Erondegemse Pijl

6th GP de Plouay

8th Overall Herald Sun Tour

9th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway

10th White Spot / Delta Road Race

10th Tour of Guangxi

2019

1st White Spot / Delta Road Race

2nd Overall Tour of Scotland

1st Stage 2

2nd Tour of Guangxi

5th Time trial, National Road Championships

5th Overall Women's Tour Down Under

9th Overall Herald Sun Tour

9th Amstel Gold Race

2020

9th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne

2021

National Road Championships

1st Road race

1st Time trial

1st Points classification, Ladies Tour of Norway

5th Dwars door Vlaanderen

5th Drentse Acht van Westerveld

6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

8th Overall Holland Ladies Tour

1st Stage 1

2022

1st Points classification, Tour of Scandinavia

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

2nd Drentse Acht van Westerveld

7th Overall Baloise Ladies Tour

8th Overall Holland Ladies Tour

2023

National Road Championships

1st Road race

4th Time trial

1st Paris–Roubaix

Pan American Road Championships

2nd Road race

3rd Time trial

2nd Tour de Gatineau

2nd Clásica de Almería

4th Trofeo Oro in Euro

5th Dwars door de Westhoek

5th Chrono Gatineau

2024

1st Stage 2 La Vuelta Femenina

4th Grand Prix International d'Isbergues

8th Flanders Diamond Tour

10th Trofeo Felanitx–Colònia de Sant Jordi (Ses Salines)

2025

National Road Championships

1st Road race

4th Time trial

1st Overall Gracia–Orlová

1st Points classification

1st Stage 2

5th Paris–Roubaix

7th Amstel Gold Race