Rebecca Wiasak Explained

Rebecca Wiasak
Birth Date:24 May 1984
Birth Place:Geelong, Australia
Height:175cm
Weight:65kg
Currentteam:Fearless Femme Racing
Discipline:Track cycling, Road racing
Amateuryears1:2015–2017
Amateurteam1:High5 Dream Team
Amateuryears2:2017–
Amateurteam2:Fearless Femme Racing
Proyears1:2014
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Rebecca Wiasak (born 24 May 1984) is an Australian track cyclist. She represented her nation at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships where she became a world champion in individual pursuit.[1] [2] In January 2015 she was announced as part of the inaugural line-up for the High5 Dream Team.[3] In 2017, Wiasak raced domestically for ACTAS on the track, for High5 Dream Team in Australia and in the United States of America for Fearless Femme Racing on the road.[4]

In 2009 Wiasak represented Australia in Lithuanian World Games competing in women's basketball.[5] After missing out of selection to compete at a major international Games at the Glasgow 2014 and Rio 2016, Wiasak was selected for her first Commonwealth Games.[6] At the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, she set a new Australian record beating her previous national record set at the Paris 2015 track world championships, and Wiasak was one of four riders to beat the previous Commonwealth Games individual pursuit record Joanna Rowsell set in 2014.[7] [8]

Major results

2014
  • BikeNZ Classic
  • 1st Points Race
  • 2nd Omnium
  • Oceania Track Championships
  • 2nd Individual Pursuit
  • 2nd Team Pursuit (with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Georgia Baker, Lauren Perry and Elissa Wundersitz)
  • 3rd Scratch Race
  • 2nd Scatch Race, BikeNZ Cup
    2015
  • 1st Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
  • 1st Individual Pursuit, South Australian Grand Prix
    2016
  • 1st Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
    2017
  • 1st Individual pursuit, National Track Championships
  • 2nd Team Pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
  • 4th Individual Time Trial, Australian National Time Trial Championships
    2018
  • 1st Australian National Criterium Championships
  • 2nd Individual Pursuit, Commonwealth Games
  • 3rd Individual Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
    2019
  • 1st Australian National Criterium Championships
  • 5th Overall Lexus of Blackburn Bay Cycling Classic

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Rebecca Wiasak. 7 February 2015. procyclingstats.com.
    2. http://en.delfi.lt/lithuania/sports/australian-lithuanian-cycling-debutant-wiasak-crowned-a-world-champion.d?id=67242456 Australian-Lithuanian cycling debutant Wiasak crowned a World Champion
    3. Web site: New Australian women's cycling team High5 Dream Team launched . . 9 January 2015 . . 1 December 2015.
    4. Web site: News. Fearless Femme Racing. 9 April 2018.
    5. http://www.sportas.info/naujienos/36369-zvaigzdes_venomis_teka_lietuviskas_kraujas.html Žvaigždės venomis teka lietuviškas kraujas
    6. News:
      1. GC2018 WIASAK WOWS ON DEBUT; NETTIE GRABS BRONZE
      . 9 April 2018. Cycling Australia. 7 April 2018.
    7. Web site: Track Records, Female. Cycling Australia. Internet Archive. 9 April 2018. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20180409131229/http://www.cycling.org.au/Track/Track-Records-Female. 9 April 2018. dmy-all.
    8. Web site: Results - Women's 3000m Individual Pursuit Qualifying. GC2018. 9 April 2018.

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