Emma Foy | |
Birth Date: | 1989 4, df=y |
Birth Place: | Dargaville, New Zealand |
Residence: | Cambridge, New Zealand |
Country: | New Zealand |
Sport: | Cycling |
Disability Class: | B/VI |
Partner: | Gabrielle Vermunt (2013) Laura Thompson (2014–16) Hannah Van Kampen (2019) |
Emma Foy (born 6 April 1989) is a New Zealand para-cyclist. She represented New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she won a silver and a bronze medal with sighted pilot Laura Thompson.[1]
From 2013 to 2019, she won a total of thirteen medals (including five gold) at the UCI Para-cycling Track and Road Championships.[2]
In 2020, with sighted pilot Hannah van Kampen, Foy retained the world title in the women's individual pursuit tandem at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships. They also claimed the bronze medal in the women's time trail tandem.[3] [4]
Foy was born with oculocutaneous albinism.[4] Of Māori descent, she affiliates to the Ngāpuhi iwi.[5]