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Born | Dargaville, New Zealand | 6 April 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | B/VI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partner(s) | Gabrielle Vermunt (2013) Laura Thompson (2014–16) Hannah Van Kampen (2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Emma Foy (born 6 April 1989) is a New Zealand para-cyclist. She represented New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she won a silver and a bronze medal with sighted pilot Laura Thompson.[1]
From 2013 to 2019, she won a total of thirteen medals (including five gold) at the UCI Para-cycling Track and Road Championships.[2]
In 2020, with sighted pilot Hannah van Kampen, Foy retained the world title in the women's individual pursuit tandem at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships. They also claimed the bronze medal in the women's time trail tandem.[3][4]
Foy was born with oculocutaneous albinism.[4] Of Māori descent, she affiliates to the Ngāpuhi iwi.[5]