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Anna Henderson
British cyclist (born 1998) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anna Louise Henderson (born 14 November 1998) is a British professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Tour Team Lidl–Trek.[3][4] She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Early life and career
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Henderson was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in 1998 and grew up in Edlesborough in Buckinghamshire. She attended Aylesbury High School.[5] Growing up, her ambition was to win an Olympic medal in the Winter Olympics. She was a competitive ski racer, however in 2015, a major crash in the National Championships in Tignes forced Henderson to step back from Skiing and used cycling as a rehab method, she then changed her interest to cycling. She made the decision when she was fifteen. She had broken her leg and cycling was prescribed as helpful to her recovery. As a result, cycling became her focus.[6] In 2021, Henderson graduated from the University of Birmingham, completing a Sports Science degree.
She rode in the women's road race event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.[7] In 2018, Henderson won the British National Circuit Race Championships,[8] and the under-23 British National Time Trial Championships in 2019.[9]
In 2022, Henderson secured a silver medal in the Time Trial at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where Grace Brown of Australia took the gold medal. This was Henderson's first major medal representing her country.
In September 2023 she was in the Netherlands at the UEC European Road Championships. She was second in the Women's Time Trial[10] and she was eighth in the Road race. She had come home in the time trial in first position, but Switzerland's Marlen Reusser finished after her with a better time.[10]
Henderson qualified for the time trial at the 2024 Olympics and she was identified in the British press as a potential medalist. They cited her British titles and her success in gaining a silver at the previous year’s European championships, and fourth place in Glasgow at the world championships.[6] She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics behind Grace Brown of Australia[11][12] on very wet Parisian roads.[13]
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Major results
- 2018
- 1st
National Criterium Championships - Tour Series
- 1st Aberystwyth
- 1st Stevenage
- 2019
- National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- Tour Series
- 1st Durham
- 1st Brooklands
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd
Team relay, UCI Road World Championships - 2021
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Derny, National Track Championships
- 1st
Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites Dames
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 7th Dwars door het Hageland WE
- 8th Le Samyn
- 10th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
- 10th GP de Plouay
- 2022
- 1st Prologue Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
- RideLondon Classique
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st
British rider classification
- 1st
- 2nd
Time trial, Commonwealth Games - 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2023
- La Vuelta Femenina
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- Held after Stage 1
- UEC European Road Championships
- 2nd
Time trial[10] - 8th Road race
- 2nd
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Simac Ladies Tour
- 3rd Overall Baloise Ladies Tour
- 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 8th Nokere Koerse
- 9th Gent–Wevelgem
- 9th Tour of Flanders
- 10th Ronde van Drenthe
- 2024
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 2nd
Time trial, Olympic Games - 2nd Overall Tour of Britain
- 2025
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 2
- Held
& 
after Stage 2
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 8th Amstel Gold Race
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