Kathy Watt Explained

Kathy Watt
Fullname:Kathryn Ann Watt
Birth Date:1964 9, df=yes
Discipline:Road and track
Role:Rider

Kathryn ("Kathy") Ann Watt (born 11 September 1964) is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain (gold in the road race, and silver in the pursuit).[1] [2] She has won 24 national championships in road racing, track racing, and mountain bike, four Commonwealth Games gold medals, and came third in the world time trial championship. She was made a life member of Blackburn Cycling Club in 1990. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[3]

The daughter of marathoner Geoff Watt, Kathy Watt turned first to running, winning the national junior 3 km championship. She began to train on a bike after achilles tendon problems. For a while, she competed in duathlon (running and cycling), but found she was a better cyclist than runner.

In 1996, Watt was in a legal dispute with the Australian Cycling Federation over who would race the pursuit in the Olympic Games. Watt had been told that she would be[4] but was replaced a few days before the event by Lucy Tyler-Sharman. Watt appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, claiming a breach of contract. The court ordered Watt to be reinstated in the race.[5]

In 2000, Watt again became involved in a controversy over a selection, but this time she was not successful in her appeal to the CAS.

She retired after 2000 but came back three years later but was not successful in an attempt to qualify for the 2004 Olympics. After another retirement, Watt worked as a coach and personal trainer. However, she made another comeback to qualify for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where she won a silver medal in the time trial. In January 2006, she won the time trial section of the Australian open road championship in Buninyong, Ballarat.[6]

Watt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Melbourne, with a major in physiology and pathology. She studied nutrition, anatomy, and physiotherapy.[7] She attended Tintern Church of England Girls' Grammar, now Tintern Grammar.[8]

In 2015, she was an inaugural Cycling Australia Hall of Fame inductee.[9]

Palmarès

Source:

1990
  • Commonwealth Games
  • Road Race – 1st
  • Track Pursuit – 2nd
  • Giro d'Italia
  • Final Overall GC – 3rd
  • 1 stage victory
    1992
  • Olympic Games
  • Road Race – Gold Medal
  • 3 km Pursuit (track) – Silver
  • Australian Road Race Championships – 1st
    1994
  • Giro d'Italia
  • Final Overall GC – 2nd
  • 3 stage victories
  • Giro del Piave – 1st
  • Canberra Stage Race
  • Final Overall GC – 1st
  • 5 stage victories
    1995
  • World Time Trial Championship – 3rd
    1996
  • Australian Championships
  • Road Race – 2nd place
  • Time Trial – 1st place
    1997
  • Oceania Championships
  • Road Race – 2nd place
  • Time Trial – 1st place
    1998
  • World Time Trial Championship – 6th
  • GP des Nations Time Trial – 2nd
  • Grande Boucle (Tour Cycliste Féminin)
  • stage 12b – 3rd
  • Tour Féminin de Bretagne
  • Overall – 2nd
  • Prologue – 2nd
  • stage 1 – 1st
  • stage 5 – 2nd
  • Grazia Tour
  • Overall – 2nd
  • stage 2 – 2nd
  • stage 3 – 3rd
  • stage 4 – 1st
  • Tour de l'Aude
  • Overall – 7th
  • Prologue (Gruissan) – 2nd
  • stage 5 (Castelnaudary TT)- 2nd
  • stage 6a (Axat to Belcaire) – 2nd
  • GP Presov and Pravda
  • Overall – 1st
  • stage 1 (TT) – 1st
  • stage 2 (Criterium) – 2nd
  • stage 3 (Road Race) – 3rd
  • stage 4 (Road Race) – 3rd
    1999
  • Tour de 'Toona
  • Overall – 2nd
  • stage 2 – 3rd
  • stage 4 – 2nd
  • stage 5 – 1st
  • Grazia Tour
  • Overall – 7th
  • stage 3 – 3rd
  • Women's Challenge
  • stage 4 (Sun Valley Time Trial) – 5th
  • stage 9 (Burley to Buhl) – 2nd
  • Tour de Snowy
  • stage 5 – 3rd
    2005
  • Chrono Champenois – 1st
  • GP International Feminin Bretagne (cat. 2) – 2nd GC
  • Thuringen-Rundfahrt (cat. 1) – stage
    2006 (Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam)
  • Commonwealth Games
  • Individual road time trial – 2nd
  • Australian Open Road Championship Time Trial – 1st
    2007
  • Australian Open Road Championship
  • Time Trial – 2nd
  • Road Race – 9th
  • 1st Overall Tour de Perth
    2008
  • Australian Open Road Championship
  • Time Trial – 4th
  • Road Race – 19th

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. https://web.archive.org/web/20091112025053/http://corporate.olympics.com.au/athlete/6775/Kathy%2BWatt Kathy Watt Cycling – Road Cycling – Track
    2. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418000751/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/kathy-watt-1.html Kathy Watt
    3. http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/history/achievements/olympics AIS Athletes at the Olympics
    4. not accurate--source needed
    5. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/archives/jul96/court.html The Kathy Watt Saga Continued
    6. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/watt-makes-comm-games-after-tt-win Watt makes Comm Games after TT win
    7. Web site: Kathy Watt .
    8. Web site: Kathy Watt OAM (YG 1982) | Tintern Alumni .
    9. Web site: Inaugural Cycling Australia Hall of Fame inductees. Cycling Australia. 12 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100916/http://www.cycling.org.au/News/All-News/inaugural-cycling-australia-hall-of-fame-inductees. 4 March 2016. dead.

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