The Australian will retire having gone from not owning a bike less than a decade ago to winning Olympic and world titles in the same year
Grace Brown capped her career by winning the women’s elite individual time trial at the Cycling World Championships in Zurich.Grace Brown capped her career by winning the women’s elite individual time trial at the Cycling World Championships in Zurich.
All of which underscores how remarkable Grace Brown’s golden and in some ways premature swansong has been this year. The 32-year-old Australian announced in June that she would retire at the end of the season, despite being in career-best form.” – Brown already had an established life in Australia when she began competing on the European circuit.
Since then, Brown has rarely been off the podium in any time trial. At the 2022 road world championships in Wollongong,But entering what would become her final season Brown had, aside from a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 2022, continuously fallen just short of the top step of the podium. If the Australian was going to call time on her career, she wanted to go one better.
At the world championships in Switzerland on Sunday, it was a tighter affair. Following an initial biting climb and then a fast descent, Dutchwoman Demi Vollering held a slight advantage midway through the race. But for the latter, flatter half of the course, Brown was in her element – regaining the lead and ultimately winning the rainbow stripes by 16 seconds.It was yet more history for Brown.
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