Simone Kennedy

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Simone Kennedy
File:XXXX15 - Simone Kennedy - 3b - 2016 Team processing.jpg
2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Kennedy
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1994-01-04) 4 January 1994 (age 31)
London, England
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Cycling
Club Parramatta Cycling Club
Medal record
Cycling
Paralympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Women's individual pursuit C1-3
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Los Angeles Women's 3km Individual Pursuit C3
Gold medal – first place 2012 Los Angeles Women's 500m Time Trial C3
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Aguascalientes Women's 3km Individual Pursuit C3
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Aguascalientes Women's 500m Time Trial C3
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Appledorn Women's 3km Individual Pursuit C3
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Appledorn Women's 500m Time Trial C3
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Montichiari Women's 3km Individual Pursuit C3
UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Nottwil Women's Time Trial C3
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Nottwil Women's Road Race C3

Simone Kennedy (born 4 January 1994) is an English-born Australian cyclist. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the road race C1-3, 500m time trial C1-3, individual pursuit C1-3 and road time trial C1-3. She has been selected in the Australian Team for the 2016 Rio Paralympics. [1]

Personal

Kennedy was born on 4 January 1994 in London, England.[2] She has cerebral palsy.[3][4]

Cycling

Kennedy is a C3 classified cyclist.[2][4] She is a member of the Parramatta Cycling Club and coached by Tom Skulander.[2][3]

Kennedy started cycling when she was a fifteen-year-old.[2] In 2012, she participated her first major international competition when she cycled in the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles, where she finished first in the C3 500-metre time trial and 3-kilometre individual pursuit.[3][5] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in cycling's 3 km pursuit, the 500m time trial and two road roads.[4][6][7] In the lead up to the Paralympics, she participated in the Blenheim Palace festival of cycling time trial event.[8][9][10]

File:050912 - Simone Kennedy - 3b - 2012 Summer Paralympics.jpg
Kennedy at the 2012 London Paralympics

At the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Aguascalientes in Mexico, she won bronze medals in the Women's 3km Individual Pursuit C3 and Women's 500m Time Trial C3. [11]

Kennedy repeated her 2014 medal results at the 2015 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Appledorn in Netherlands by winning bronze medals in the Women's 500m Time Trial C3 and Women's 3km Individual Pursuit C3. [12] [13]

At the 2015 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships Nottwil, Switzerland, she won a bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C3.[14] and Women's Road Race C3.[15]

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