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Paige Greco | |
Nationality: | Australian |
Birth Date: | 19 February 1997 |
Country: | Australia |
Sport: | Cycling |
Disability Class: | C3 |
Club: | Port Adelaide Cycling Club |
Paige Greco (born 19 February 1997) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist who won gold medals at the 2019 World Track Championships in C1-3 women's pursuit 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She broke the World Record setting a new one of 3:52.283 in the 3000m individual pursuit at the Tokyo Paralympics.
Greco has cerebral palsy which mainly affects the right side of her body.[1] She has completed an Exercise Science Degree at the University of South Australia.[2]
Greco is classified as a C3 cyclist. Before turning to cycling, Greco was a promising track and field athlete.[1] In 2018, Greco moved from Victoria to South Australian Sports Institute to be coached by Loz Shaw.[1]
At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she won gold medals in the Women's 3 km Pursuit C3 and C3 500m Time Trial.[3] In qualifying for Women's 3 km Pursuit final, Greco's time of 4mins 0.206secs broke the existing world record by three seconds.[3] In the 500m Time Trial C3, her time of 39.442secs smashed the previous mark by almost two seconds.[4] She also won the silver medal in the Women's Scratch Race C3.[5]
At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Emmen, Netherlands, she won the gold medal in the Women's Time Trial C3 and fifth in the Women's Road Race C3.[6]
At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Milton, Ontario, she won the gold medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C3.[7]
Greco in her first Paralympic Games in 2020 Tokyo, won the Women's 3000m Individual Pursuit C1-3, setting a world record time of 3:50.815 in the gold medal race.[8] She won bronze medals in the Women's Road Trial Trial C1-3 with a time of 26:37:54 and Women's Road Race C1-3 with a time of 1:13.11.
At the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Baie-Comeau, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial C3 and finished 5th in the Women's Road Race C3.[9]
At the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, she won the bronze medal in Women's Time Trial C3.[10]