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Born | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | 21 September 1994|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Liv AlUla Jayco | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Track Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Track Endurance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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? | Northern Districts Cycling Club [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | Team Polygon Australia [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014 | Jayco/Apollo VIS [3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2014 | Wiggle–Honda [4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | High5 Dream Team [5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2017 | Orica–Scott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | TIS Racing [6] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022– | Team BikeExchange–Jayco | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Georgia Baker (born 21 September 1994) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. [7] She rode in the women's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. [8]
After taking a break from road racing in 2016 with the High5 Dream Team to focus on her Rio Olympics campaign, Baker signed for Orica-Scott to race in the Women's World Tour team for 2017. [9] In her first European race for the team at the end of May, Baker was among the 90 non-finishers of 121 that started at Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik. [10]
Baker withdrew from the 2017 Women's Tour on the opening stage after experiencing a racing heart and sharp pains in her chest and arm. [11] She was diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia, which is not a life-threatening condition, but needed to be treated to continue as an athlete. She had surgery in early August, and resumed training for a mixed road and track season in the run-up to the 2018 Commonwealth Games. [12] Following the successful surgery, Baker undertook a three-month training block in Australia before racing at the Oceania Track Championships in November 2017. [13]
Baker qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She was a member of the women's pursuit team. The team, consisting of Ashlee Ankudinoff, Georgia Baker, Annette Edmondson, Alexandra Manly and Maeve Plouffe, finished fifth. [14]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Baker won the gold medal in the women's team pursuit event alongside Sophie Edwards, Chloe Moran and Maeve Plouffe, setting a games record time of 4:14.06.
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