Kathy Watt
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| Full name | Kathryn Ann Watt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 September 1964 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road and track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kathryn ("Kathy") Ann Watt (born 11 September 1964) is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain (gold in the road race, and silver in the pursuit).[1][2] She has won 24 national championships in road racing, track racing, and mountain bike, four Commonwealth Games gold medals, and came third in the world time trial championship. She was made a life member of Blackburn Cycling Club in 1990. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[3]
The daughter of marathoner Geoff Watt, Kathy Watt turned first to running, winning the national junior 3 km championship. She began to train on a bike after achilles tendon problems. For a while, she competed in duathlon (running and cycling), but found she was a better cyclist than runner.
In 1996, Watt was in a legal dispute with the Australian Cycling Federation over who would race the pursuit in the Olympic Games. Watt had been told that she would be[4] but was replaced a few days before the event by Lucy Tyler-Sharman. Watt appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, claiming a breach of contract. The court ordered Watt to be reinstated in the race.[5]
In 2000, Watt again became involved in a controversy over a selection, but this time she was not successful in her appeal to the CAS.
She retired after 2000 but came back three years later but was not successful in an attempt to qualify for the 2004 Olympics. After another retirement, Watt worked as a coach and personal trainer. However, she made another comeback to qualify for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where she won a silver medal in the time trial. In January 2006, she won the time trial section of the Australian open road championship in Buninyong, Ballarat.[6]
Watt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Melbourne, with a major in physiology and pathology. She studied nutrition, anatomy, and physiotherapy.[7] She attended Tintern Church of England Girls' Grammar, now Tintern Grammar.[8]
Awards and recognition
In 2015, Watt was an inaugural Cycling Australia Hall of Fame inductee.[9] She was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2019.[10]
Major results
Source:[11]
- 1990
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 3rd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1 stage victory
- 1992
- Olympic Games
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Individual pursuit
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1994
- 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st Prologue, Stages 1 & 3b (ITT)
- 1st Giro del Piave
- 1st Overall Canberra Stage Race
- 5 stage victories
- 1995
- 3rd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 1996
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1997
- Oceania Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1998
- 1st Overall GP Presov and Pravda
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 2nd Overall Tour de Bretagne
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Overall Grazia Tour
- 1st Stage 4
- 2nd Grand Prix des Nations
- 6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 7th Overall Tour de l'Aude
- 1999
- 2nd Overall International Tour de Toona
- 1st Stage 5
- 7th Overall Grazia Tour
- 2005
- 1st Chrono Champenois
- 1st Stage 2 Thuringen–Rundfahrt
- 2nd Overall GP International Feminin Bretagne
- 2006
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial, Commonwealth Games
- 2007
- 1st Overall Tour de Perth
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2008
- 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
References
- ^ Kathy Watt Cycling – Road Cycling – Track. Corporate.olympics.com.au. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ^ Kathy Watt. Sports Reference (11 September 1964). Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ^ AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Ausport.gov.au (9 January 2008). Retrieved 2 August 012.
- ^ not accurate--source needed
- ^ The Kathy Watt Saga Continued. Autobus.cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ^ Watt makes Comm Games after TT win. Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ^ "Kathy Watt".
- ^ "Kathy Watt OAM (YG 1982) | Tintern Alumni".
- ^ "Inaugural Cycling Australia Hall of Fame inductees". Cycling Australia. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ "Kathryn Watt OAM". State Government of Victoria. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ Kathy Watt at Cycling Archives (archive)