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| Full name | Caroline Alexander | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 March 1968 Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road & MTB XC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1991 | Kona | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Raleigh | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Louis Garneau | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | BMW-Klein | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Team Ritchey | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | American Eagle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Specialized MTB | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Caroline Sarah J. Alexander (born 3 March 1968)[1] 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.[2]
She represented Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[1] She was a reserve for the British Cycling team at the 2001 UCI road world championships[3] Alexander also represented Britain at the UCI Women's Road World Cup events in 2002.[4] Alexander represented Scotland in the first mountain-bike event in the Commonwealth Games in 2002.[5]
She was the first British female mountain biker to win a UCI World Cup stage in 1997.[6]
Alexander retired from cycling in 2004. In 2009, she was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame.[7]
