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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 suffered injuries as a result of a car accident where her car was t-boned. [1] Forster was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and was in intensive car for a week. Her injuries included broken pelvis, femur, patella, ulna bones and a number of ribs. [1] She spent three months in rehabilitation. Prior to the car accident, worked as an emergency department doctor. [1]
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. [1] Forster is classified as a C5 cyclist.
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. [2] 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. [3]
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. [4]
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. [5]
She is a member of the Ballarat Sebastopol Cycling Club. [6]
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