Rikki Belder

Rikki Belder (born 2 July 1993) is a former Australian track sprint cyclist.^[1][2] She was the 2017 Oceania Champion in the 500m Team Sprint (with Holly Takos and Courtney Field),^[3] and has won six Australian Titles in the same event with fellow South Australian team members Anna Meares OAM and Stephanie Morton OAM.^[1][4][5]

Belder receives Keirin bronze at the 2016 Subaru Cycling Australia Track National Championships^[6]

Belder holds the Australian Championship Record in the 500m Team Sprint (with Stephanie Morton).^[7] She represented Australia at the 2015 Union Cycliste Internationale – UCI Track Cycling World Cup III in Cali, Colombia, and at the 2017 Oceania Track Cycling Championships.^[1][3][8][9]

Biography

Rikki Belder was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 2 July 1993. She was a scholarship holder at the South Australian Sports Institute (SASI) from 2011 - 2017.^[10] Belder studied Biomedical Engineering at Flinders University.^[1]

She is the daughter of Lyn and Gary Belder.^[1] Sister Donna Belder, held a PhD research scholarship in ornithology at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University (ANU).^[11]

In 2014, Rikki Belder was listed as one of South Australia's Fastest-Rising Stars Under 30^[12]. Belder has completed some art work for charity.^[13]

Painting by Rikki Belder of Australian track cyclist Anna Meares - auctioned to raise funds for the Little Heroes Foundation^[6]

Palmares - Cycling

^[1][3]

2018

• 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Morton and Takos) Australian National Championships QLD
• 3rd Keirin Australian National Championships QLD

2017

• 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Takos and Field) Oceania Championships VIC
• 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Morton and Takos) Australian National Championships QLD
• 2nd 500m Time Trial Australian National Championships QLD
• 4th Keirin Australian National Championships QLD
• 6th Sprint Oceania Championships VIC
• 6th Sprint Australian National Championships QLD
• 10th Keirin Oceania Championships VIC

2016

• 2nd 500m Team Sprint (With Hargrave) Australian National Championships SA
• 3rd Keirin Australian National Championships SA
• 3rd Keirin, ITS Melbourne Grand Prix

2015

• 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Meares and Morton) Australian National Championships VIC
• 1st 500m Time Trial Australian National Championships VIC
• 3rd Keirin Oceania Championships SA

3rd Keirin, Austral Wheelrace Carnival

2014

• 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Morton) Australian National Championships SA^[14]

Austral Wheelrace Carnival

1st Keirin

2nd Sprint

• 3rd Keirin Oceania Track Championships
• 3rd 500m Time Trial Oceania Track Championships

2013

• 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Morton) Australian National Championships NSW
• 2nd 500m Team Sprint (With Morton) Oceania Championships NSW
• 3rd 500m Time Trial Australian National Championships NSW

2012

• 1st 500m Team Sprint (With Meares) Australian National Championships SA^[15]
• 2nd 500m Time Trial Australian National Championships SA
• 2nd 500m Time Trial Oceania Championships NZL
• 2nd Team Sprint (With Falappi) Oceania Championships NZL

Sponsorship

Belder was a GKA Sports Distribution (http://www.gkasports.com.au)^[16] supported athlete.