Stephanie Morton, OAM (born 28 November 1990) is a retired Australian track cyclist who participated in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. She has won national and international cycling titles, and was Felicity Johnson's tandem pilot at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a gold medal.
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| Born | 28 November 1990 Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal
editStephanie Morton was born in Adelaide on 28 November 1990.[1][2] As of 2013[update], she works for the "Bee Safe on Bikes" education program for junior primary school students.[1]
Cycling
editMorton is a member of South Coast Cycling Club and is part of Team Jayco AIS.[1] She started cycling competitively at the age of 15.[1] Competing at the 2011 National Keirin Final, she finished second behind Anna Meares.[1] She made her Australian national team debut at the 2011 Para-cycling Track World Championships with Felicity Johnson.[1] She has said forming a friendship and real partnership was key for the pair's success.[3]
In 2012, she participated in the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles as the pilot for Johnson, and finished first in the B tandem 1 km time trial and the B Tandem sprint.[4][5] At the 2012 London Paralympics, they won a gold medal in the Women's 1 km Time Trial B event,[6] and were subsequently awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[7]
In November 2012, Morton came first in the Keirin and second in the sprint at the Oceania Track Championships.[1] In the third round of the 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics in Aguascalientes, Mexico, she came first in the team sprint with Kaarle McCulloch and 6th in the keirin, while at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk, Belarus, she came fourth in the team sprint (with McCulloch) and sixth in the individual sprint.[1]
At the 2013 Australian National Track Championships in Sydney, she came first in the keirin, individual sprint, and team sprint (with Rikki Belder).[1][8] In February 2014, she scored an upset win at the Australian track cycling championships by beating Anna Meares in the Keiren for the first time. Meares tweeted a photo of a cap that she had signed for Morton five years before, on which she had written: "Steph, maybe one day you'll beat me".[9]
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Morton competed in the track sprint and 500 m time trial, while Johnson had a new partner, Holly Takos.[10] Morton rode a personal best time of 34.079 in the 500 m time trial at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, but won silver after Anna Meares posted a faster time.[11] However, she defeated Meares in the track sprint, winning two heats to none in the best-of-three final to take the gold medal.[12]
Major results
edit- 2011
- 1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial, UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships (Pilot for Felicity Johnson)
- 1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial, New Zealand Oceania Para-Cycling Regional Cup (Pilot for Felicity Johnson)
- 2012
- 1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial, Paralympic Games (Pilot for Felicity Johnson)
- UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
- 1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial (Pilot for Felicity Johnson)
- 1st Tandem B – Sprint (Pilot for Felicity Johnson)
- 2013
- Melbourne Cup on Wheels
- 1st Keirin
- 2nd Sprint
- 2014
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st
Keirin - 1st Sprint
- 1st Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch)
- 1st
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st
Sprint - 2nd
500m Time Trial
- 1st
- Adelaide Cycling Grand Prix
- 1st Sprint
- 2nd Keirin
- 1st Sprint, Super Drome Cup
- 2nd Sprint, South Australian Track Classic
- 2015
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Team Sprint
- 2nd Sprint
- 1st
- 3rd Sprint, Super Drome Cup
- 2016
- Austral
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- Oceania Track Championships
- 2nd Keirin
- 3rd
Sprint
- 2nd
- 2nd Sprint, ITS Melbourne DISC Grand Prix
- 2nd Sprint, ITS Melbourne Grand Prix
- 2016 Summer Olympic Games
- =13th Cycling Track Keirin
- 13th Cycling Track Sprint
- 4th Cycling Track Sprint
- 2017
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch)
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 1st
- Australian Track Championships
- 1st
Sprint - 1st Team Sprint (with Rikki Belder)
- 1st Keirin
- 1st
- ITS Melbourne – DISC Grand Prix
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- ITS Melbourne – Hisense Grand Prix
- 1st Keirin
- 1st Sprint
- Austral
- 1st Keirin
- 2nd Sprint
- UCI World Track Championships
- 2nd Sprint
- 2nd Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch)
- 2nd
- 2nd Sprint, Round 1, (Pruszków) Track Cycling World Cup[13]
- 2018
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch)
- 1st Sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 2nd 500m Time Trial
- 1st
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Stephanie Morton". Cycling Australia. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
- ^ "Stephanie Morton". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ "Partners in the fast lane". The Age. 5 August 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
- ^ "Para-Cyclones Golden Finish to Worlds Campaign". International Business Times. 16 February 2012. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ "Stephanie Morton". Darwin Cycling Club. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- ^ "Stephanie Morton". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ "Australia Day honours list 2014: in full". The Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^ "South Australia And Victoria Strike Gold During Opening Session Of 2013 Track Nationals". Cycling Australia. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Stephanie Morton beats favourite Anna Meares in keirin final at national track cycling titles". 1 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ^ Paxinos, Stathi (22 July 2014). "Stephanie Morton and Felicity Johnson together but apart at Commonwealth Games". The Age.
- ^ Corkhill, Barney (25 July 2014). "Stephanie Morton "stoked" by personal best in 500m time trial final". Sports Mole. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ Coventry, James (28 July 2014). "Commonwealth Games: Stephanie Morton beats Anna Meares to win gold medal in women's sprint in Glasgow". ABC Grandstand. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ "Australia's Scotson and Meyer take Madison title, Wild claims women's omnium in Pruszkow". cyclingnews.com. 4 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
External links
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- Stephanie Morton at UCI
- Stephanie Morton at Cycling Archives
- Stephanie Morton at Olympics.com
- Stephanie Morton at Paralympic.org
- Stephanie Morton at Olympedia
