Caroline Sarah J. Alexander (born 3 March 1968) is a cross-country mountain biker and road cyclist born in Barrow-in-Furness. She was a swimmer as a child and did not cycle until she was 20. She first rode a bike in competition in a triathlon: she came second in the swimming and was fastest on the bike. She entered her first mountain bike race, which she won. Within a year she was one of the top three mountain-bike racers in the UK. She left her job as a draughtswoman in Barrow shipyards and became a full-time cyclist.
She represented Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She was a reserve for the British Cycling team at the 2001 UCI road world championships Alexander also represented Britain at the UCI Women's Road World Cup events in 2002. Alexander represented Scotland in the first mountain-bike event in the Commonwealth Games in 2002.
She was the first British female mountain biker to win a UCI World Cup stage in 1997.
Alexander retired from cycling in 2004. In 2009, she was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame.
Major results
1993 1st National XC Championships 2nd UEC European XC Championships 1994 1st National XC Championships 2nd Overall UCI XC World Cup 1995 1st UEC European XC Championships 1st National XC Championships 1996 1st Overall Mountain Bike Tour of Britain 1st 6 Stages UCI XC World Cup 2nd Bromont 3rd Helen 1997 1st National XC Championships UCI XC World Cup 1st Sankt Wendel 2nd Špindlerův Mlýn 1998 1st National CX Championships 2000 1st Stage 3 Redlands Bicycle Classic 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Sea Otter TT 2001 1st Overall Sea Otter Classic 2nd Overall UCI XC World Cup 2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne 3rd Durango 6th UCI World XC Championships 2002 1st National XC Championships UCI XC World Cup 2nd Houffalize 5th Cross-country, Commonwealth Games 7th La Flèche Wallonne
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