Meg Lemon

Meg Lemon
Meg Lemon in 2019
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1989-10-05) 5 October 1989 (age 35)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportCycling
Disability classC4
ClubPort Adelaide Cycling Club
Medal record
Cycling
Paralympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Road Time Trial C4
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Road Time Trial C4
Road World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Baie-Comeau Road Race C4
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Pietermaritzburg Time Trial C4
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Pietermaritzburg Road Race C4
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Maniago Time Trial C4
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Emmen Time Trial C4
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Emmen Road Race Trial C4
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Glasgow Road race C4
Track World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Apeldoorn Scratch Race C4
Silver medal – second place 2020 Milton Pursuit C4
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Rio Pursuit C4
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Apeldoorn Pursuit C4
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Pursuit C4
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Scratch Race C4

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]

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]

References

  1. ^ "World And Paralympic Champions Feature Among Tokyo-Bound Para-Cyclists". Paralympics Australia. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Paralympics Australia Names Cycling Team For Paris 2024 | Paralympics Australia". www.paralympic.org.au. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Paralympic Para Cycling Road Schedule - Women's C4-5 Road Race". Paris 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Meg Lemon". Cycling Australia website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  5. ^ Whelan, Melanie (3 January 2018). "Same mission: para-cyclists hungry for national crown in Ballarat". The Courier News. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Lemon, Meg". Paris 2024 Paralympics. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  7. ^ "SA riders shine at Para-cycling world titles in LA". SASI website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  8. ^ "Hicks, Lemon announce arrival on world stage". SASI website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  9. ^ "2018 UCI Para-cycling World Championships". UCI website. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  10. ^ "Para pursuit perfection- Petricola on top of the world". Australian Cycling Team website. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  11. ^ "2019 World Para Cycling Road Championships". Votrecourse.com/. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Australia secure eight world titles at 2020 Para-cycling Track World Championships". Cycling Australia website. 3 February 2020. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  13. ^ "Australian Paralympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  14. ^ "2022 UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships Official Results" (PDF). RSSTiming. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  15. ^ "Results - UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships". UCI. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  16. ^ Bakan, Sezen (28 August 2024). "Everything you need to know about the Paralympic Games". www.indaily.com.au. Retrieved 17 September 2024.