 Alana Forster winning the bronze medal at the 2024 World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 May 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | C5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Ballarat Sebastopol Cycling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alana Forster (born 4 May 1986) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She won a gold medal and a silver medal at the 2023 UCI World Championships in Glasgow. Forster won a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. [1]
Forster suffered injuries as a result of a car accident where her car was t-boned. [2] Forster was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and spent a week in intensive care. She suffered injuries to her pelvis, femur, ulna, patella and ribs. [2] She spent three months in rehabilitation. Prior to the car accident, Forster worked as an emergency department doctor. [2]
Prior to her car accident, Forster had a successful road cycling career including racing in Europe and the Dubai Women's Tour, and earned top-10 results in Oceania and national time trial championships. [2] Forster is classified as a C5 cyclist. [3]
At the Australian Road Cycling Championships, she won the gold medal in the Women's Road Race WC4 and bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial WC4. [4] At the 2023 Oceania Track Championships, she defeated Meg Lemon in Women's Individual Pursuit C5 and finished third in the Women's Omnium C5. [5]
Forster won the gold medal in the Women's Scratch race C5 at the 2023 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Glasgow after making a successful attack with five laps to go. [6]
At the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Foster finished fifth in the Women's Scratch Race C5 and sixth in the Women's Individual Pursuit C5. [7] At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won the bronze in the Women's C5 Individual Time Trial, finished fifth in the Women's Individual pursuit C5 and seventh in the Women's road race C4-5. [8]
She is a member of the Ballarat Sebastopol Cycling Club. [9]
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