Meg Lemon

Meg Lemon (born 5 October 1989) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics where she won a bronze medal^[1] and the 2024 Paris Paralympics,^[2] where she won a silver medal medal.^[3]

Meg Lemon

Meg Lemon in 2019
Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1989-10-05) 5 October 1989 (age 35)
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Cycling
Disability class	C4
Club	Port Adelaide Cycling Club
Medal record Cycling Paralympic Games 2024 Paris Road Time Trial C4 2020 Tokyo Road Time Trial C4 Road World Championships 2022 Baie-Comeau Road Race C4 2017 Pietermaritzburg Time Trial C4 2017 Pietermaritzburg Road Race C4 2018 Maniago Time Trial C4 2019 Emmen Time Trial C4 2019 Emmen Road Race Trial C4 2023 Glasgow Road race C4 Track World Championships 2019 Apeldoorn Scratch Race C4 2020 Milton Pursuit C4 2018 Rio Pursuit C4 2019 Apeldoorn Pursuit C4 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Pursuit C4 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Scratch Race C4

Personal

Lemon was born on 5 October 1989.^[4] She attended Sacred Heart College in Adelaide, South Australia. Lemon has a bachelor's degree, Nutrition and Dietetics from Flinders University and works as a sports dietitian. Lemon sustained a brain injury when hit by a car while riding to work and left her with a weakened right side of her body.^[5]

Cycling

Lemon is classified as a C4 cyclist.^[6] In her international debut at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles, United States, she finished fourth in the Women's C4-C5 Scratch Race.^[7]

In September 2017, at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Lemon won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Women's Road Race C4.^[8] At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Pursuit C4 and was ninth in Women's Scratch Race C4-5 and Women's 500 m Time Trial C4. At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Maniago, Italy she won the bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial C4 and finished fourth in the Women's Road Race C4.^[9]

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she won the silver medal in the Women's Scratch Race C4 and the bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4.^[10]

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Emmen, Netherlands, she won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Road Race C4.^[11]

At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Milton, Ontario, she won the silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4.^[12]

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Lemon won the bronze medal in the Women's Road Time Trial C4 with a time of 41:14.42 and finished fourth in Women's Individual Pursuit C4, ninth together with Amanda Reid and Gordon Allan in the Mixed Team Sprint C1–5 and eighth in Women's Road Race C4-5.^[13]

Lemon won the silver medal in the Women's Road Race C4 at 2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Baie-Comeau.^[14]

At the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, she won two bronze medals - Women's Pursuit C4 and Women's Scratch Race C4.^[15]

At the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, she won silver in the Women's C4 Individual Time Trial.^[3] She finished sixth in Women's Individual pursuit C4 and twelfth in the Women's road race C4-5.

Lemon has held a South Australian Institute of Sport scholarship athlete.^[16]