Meg Lemon

Meg Lemon (born 5 October 1989) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics where she won a bronze medal.[1]

Meg Lemon
Meg Lemon in 2019
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1989-10-05) 5 October 1989
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportCycling
Disability classC4
ClubPort Adelaide Cycling Club
Medal record
Cycling
Paralympic Games
2020 TokyoRoad Time Trial C4
Road World Championships
2022 Baie-ComeauRoad Race C4
2017 PietermaritzburgTime Trial C4
2017 PietermaritzburgRoad Race C4
2018 ManiagoTime Trial C4
2019 EmmenTime Trial C4
2019 EmmenRoad Race Trial C4
2023 GlasgowRoad race C4
Track World Championships
2019 ApeldoornScratch Race C4
2020 MiltonPursuit C4
2018 RioPursuit C4
2019 ApeldoornPursuit C4
2022 Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesPursuit C4
2022 Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesScratch Race C4

Personal

Lemon was born on 5 October 1989.[2] She attended Sacred Heart College in Adelaide, South Australia. Lemon has a bachelor's degree, Nutrition and Dietetics from Flinders University and works as a sports dietitian. Lemon sustained a brain injury when hit by a car while riding to work and left her with a weakened right side of her body.[3]

Cycling

Lemon is classified as a C4 cyclist. In her international debut at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles, United States, she finished fourth in the Women's C4-C5 Scratch Race.[4]

In September 2017, at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Lemon won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Women's Road Race C4.[5] At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Pursuit C4 and was ninth in Women's Scratch Race C4-5 and Women's 500 m Time Trial C4. At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Maniago, Italy she won the bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial C4 and finished fourth in the Women's Road Race C4.[6]

In 2018, Lemon was a South Australian Institute of Sport scholarship athlete.

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she won the silver medal in the Women's Scratch Race C4 and the bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4.[7]

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Emmen, Netherlands, she won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Road Race C4.[8]

At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Milton, Ontario, she won the silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4.[9]

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Lemon won the bronze medal in the Women's Road Time Trial C4 with a time of 41:14.42 and finished fourth in Women's Individual Pursuit C4, ninth together with Amanda Reid and Gordon Allan in the Mixed Team Sprint C1–5 and eighth in Women's Road Race C4-5.[10]

Lemon won the silver medal in the Women's Road Race C4 at 2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Baie-Comeau.[11]


At the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, she won two bronze medals - Women's Pursuit C4 and Women's Scratch Race C4.[12]

References
  1. "World And Paralympic Champions Feature Among Tokyo-Bound Para-Cyclists". Paralympics Australia. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  2. "Meg Lemon". Cycling Australia website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  3. Whelan, Melanie (3 January 2018). "Same mission: para-cyclists hungry for national crown in Ballarat". The Courier News. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  4. "SA riders shine at Para-cycling world titles in LA". SASI website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  5. "Hicks, Lemon announce arrival on world stage". SASI website. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  6. "2018 UCI Para-cycling World Championships". UCI website. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  7. "Para pursuit perfection- Petricola on top of the world". Australian Cycling Team website. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  8. "2019 World Para Cycling Road Championships". Votrecourse.com/. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  9. "Australia secure eight world titles at 2020 Para-cycling Track World Championships". Cycling Australia website. 3 February 2020. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  10. "Australian Paralympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  11. "2022 UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships Official Results" (PDF). RSSTiming. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  12. "Results - UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships". UCI. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
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