Alana Forster (born 4 May 1986) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She won a gold medal and a silver medal at the 2023 UCI World Championships in Glasgow. Forster won a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. [1]
 Alana Forster winning the bronze medal at the 2024 World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 May 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | C5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Ballarat Sebastopol Cycling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Personal life
editForster suffered injuries as a result of a car accident where her car was t-boned.[2] Forster was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and spent a week in intensive care. She suffered injuries to her pelvis, femur, ulna, patella and ribs.[2] She spent three months in rehabilitation. Prior to the car accident, Forster worked as an emergency department doctor.[2]
Cycling
editPrior to her car accident, Forster had a successful road cycling career including racing in Europe and the Dubai Women's Tour, and earned top-10 results in Oceania and national time trial championships.[2] Forster is classified as a C5 cyclist.[3]
At the Australian Road Cycling Championships, she won the gold medal in the Women's Road Race WC4 and bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial WC4.[4] At the 2023 Oceania Track Championships, she defeated Meg Lemon in Women's Individual Pursuit C5 and finished third in the Women's Omnium C5.[5]
Forster won the gold medal in the Women's Scratch race C5 at the 2023 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Glasgow after making a successful attack with five laps to go.[6]
At the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Foster finished fifth in the Women's Scratch Race C5 and sixth in the Women's Individual Pursuit C5.[7] At the 2024 Paris Paralympics , she won the bronze in the Women's C5 Individual Time Trial, finished fifth in the Women's Individual pursuit C5 and seventh in the Women's road race C4-5..[8]
She is a member of the Ballarat Sebastopol Cycling Club.[9]
References
edit- ^ "Paralympics Australia Names Cycling Team For Paris 2024 | Paralympics Australia". www.paralympic.org.au. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ a b c d Miu, Ryan (1 March 2023). "Alana Forster: From emergency room to national champion". AusCycling. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "Forster, Alana". Paris 2024 Paralympics. Paris 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
- ^ "2023 Australian Road Cycling Championships". AusCycling. 10 January 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "2023 Oceania Track Cycling Championships". AusCycling. 28 March 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ Davies, Josh (8 August 2023). "Worlds: Double rainbow delight for Australia on the track". AusCycling. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "2024 UCI Paracycling Track World Championships". paraworlds2024.veloresults.com. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Women's C5 Individual Time Trial Results". Paris 2024 Paralympics. Paris 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ "Josh Jolly and Alana Forster in Australian team for World Cycling Championships". The Courier. Ballarat, Victoria. 20 July 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
