Shelley Olds
Shelley Olds (born September 30, 1980)[1] is an American former professional racing cyclist.
Olds during the points race at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Shelley Olds |
| Born | September 30, 1980 Groton, Massachusetts |
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Disciplines |
|
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Professional teams | |
| 2008–2009 | ProMan Hit Squad |
| 2010 | Twenty12 |
| 2011 | Diadora–Pasta Zara |
| 2012 | AA Drink–leontien.nl |
| 2013 | Team TIBCO–To The Top |
| 2014 | Alé–Cipollini |
| 2015 | Bigla Pro Cycling Team |
| 2015 | Alé–Cipollini |
| 2016 | Cylance Pro Cycling |
| Major wins | |
| Women's Tour of New Zealand (2010) Tour of Chongming Island World Cup (2012) | |
Career edit
Olds was born and raised in Groton, Massachusetts. She studied health and human performance at Roanoke College in Virginia, and was captain of their women's soccer team. A star on the soccer pitch, Olds was a two-time NSCAA All-South Region selection, four-time All-ODAC selection and the 2002 ODAC Player of the Year. She was inducted into the Roanoke Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016.[2]
After college, she moved to California and was introduced to cycling by Rob Evans, whom she later married. She started racing locally on the road, quickly moving up in the ranks and winning the Road Cycling State Championships. She then joined Peanut Butter & Co.TWENTY12 team,[3] won the Track National Scratch Race Championships in 2008 and 2009 and then won the National Criterium Championships in 2010 and 2011. She began racing internationally soon after and earned podium results in the Tour of New Zealand, Trofeo Costa Etrusca Iii in Italy, Drentse 8 Van Dwingeloo in Netherlands, as well as Liberty Classic road race in Philadelphia.[1][4] She registered with the UCI under her married name of Shelley Evans for the 2010 season,[5][6] but reverted to her maiden name in later seasons.
In 2012, Olds signed with Dutch team AA Drink–leontien.nl and won the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup[7] to earn a qualifying spot on the US National team for the Road race at the London Olympics. At the Olympics, she was one of the four riders in the winning breakaway group that split from the peloton with 50 kilometres (31 miles) to go, but suffered a puncture 29 kilometres (18 miles) later. After a tire change, she caught back up to the peloton and finished in 7th place.[8]
Olds carried on with her professional racing career with multiple UCI Women teams, and continued her ascent to become one of the top sprinters in the world. She took multiple Sprinters' jerseys in races across Italy, Norway and China. Back in North America, she won the Winston-Salem Cycling Classic in North Carolina, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau in Quebec, Canada, and the White Spot/Delta road race in British Columbia, Canada.
In 2015, while riding for the Italian Alé–Cipollini team, Olds won the inaugural edition of La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta[9] in a bunch sprint beating out top sprinters in the world at the time. She moved back to the United States in 2016 to join Cylance Pro Cycling team and started the year with a 2nd place finish in the Women's Down Under Tour in Australia, but had to retire in March of that year after crashing and suffering from head injuries in back to back races in Europe.[10]
Major results edit
- 2008
- 1st Scratch, National Track Championships
- 8th Liberty Classic
- 2009
- 1st Scratch, National Track Championships
- 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
- 2nd Points race, Melbourne
- 3rd Scratch, Manchester
- 3rd Points race, 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Copenhagen
- 3rd Liberty Classic
- 2010
- 1st Road race, Pan American Road Championships
- 1st National Criterium Championships
- 1st Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand
- 1st Stages 1, 2, 5 & 6
- 1st Stage 10 Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 2nd Liberty Classic
- 2011
- 1st GP Costa Etrusca
- 2nd Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo
- 2nd Liberty Classic
- 5th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
- 6th Grand Prix de Dottignies
- 2012
- Tour of Chongming Island
- 1st World Cup
- 4th Overall Stage race
- 1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 2nd 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
- 4th Road race, Pan American Road Championships
- 4th Open de Suède Vårgårda
- 7th Road race, Summer Olympics
- 8th Holland Hills Classic
- 2013
- 1st Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau
- 2nd Le Samyn des Dames
- 2nd Omloop van het Hageland
- 4th Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo
- 4th Philadelphia Cycling Classic
- 5th Overall Belgium Tour
- 5th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
- 1st Points classification
- 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 5th Cholet Pays de Loire Dames
- 6th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
- 7th Chrono Gatineau
- 8th Overall Tour of Chongming Island
- 2014
- 1st Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile — Memorial Michela Fanini
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Prologue & Stage 1
- 1st GP Comune di Cornaredo
- 1st Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
- 2nd Overall Tour of Chongming Island
- 2nd Novilon EDR Cup
- 2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies
- 3rd Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs
- 3rd Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
- 5th La Course by Le Tour de France
- 6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 6th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup
- 8th Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica
- 1st Stages 3 & 5
- 10th Sparkassen Giro
- 2015
- 1st White Spot / Delta Road Race
- 1st La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta
- 2nd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd EPZ Omloop van Borsele
- Tour of Chongming Island
- 4th World Cup
- 5th Overall Stage race
- 4th Philadelphia Cycling Classic
- 7th Dwars door de Westhoek
- 9th Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda
- 2016
- 2nd Overall Women's Tour Down Under
- 4th Omloop van het Hageland
- 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 6th Ronde van Drenthe
References edit
- ^ a b "Shelley Olds". USA Cycling. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
- ^ "The Official Website of Roanoke Athletics". Roanoke Athletics.
- ^ "Peanut Butter & Co.TWENTY12 join women's peloton". Cyclingnews. January 25, 2010.
- ^ "Moving to the road: A conversation with Shelley Evans". VeloNews.com. May 20, 2010.
- ^ Cranmer, Nicola (February 3, 2010). "The road to TWENTY12". cyclingnews.com.
- ^ "Ranking - Cycling - Road 2010 Women Elite UCI Ranking Individual Shelley EVANS (United States)". UCI. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ Atkins, Ben (May 13, 2012). "Shelley Olds wins Chongming Island World Cup in a bunch sprint". Velonation.
- ^ Weislo, Laura (July 29, 2012). "Puncture means heartbreak for Olds in Olympic road race". cyclingnews.com.
- ^ Fotheringham, Alasdair (September 13, 2015). "Olds shows Worlds form with Madrid Challenge victory". Cyclingnews.
- ^ "Cylance without Olds for Women's Tour of Flanders". Cyclingnews. March 31, 2016.
- ^ Shelley Olds at Cycling Archives
- ^ Shelley Olds-Evans profile at CycleBase
Further reading edit
- "Shelley Olds". AA Drink–leontien.nl. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
- Hazen, Bart (January 21, 2011). "Interview: Shelley Olds". Daily Peloton.
- . Daily Peloton. February 26, 2009. Archived from the original on April 20, 2013.
External links edit
- Official website
- Shelley Olds at UCI
- Shelley Olds at Cycling Archives
- Shelley Olds at ProCyclingStats
- Shelley Olds at Cycling Quotient
- Shelley Olds at CycleBase
- at CyclingDatabase.com (archived)
- Shelley Olds at Olympics.com
- Shelley Olds at Olympedia
- at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (archived)