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| Full name | Kathleen Shannon | |||||||||||||
| Born | 20 September 1964 | |||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||
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Kathleen Shannon (born 20 September 1964) is a former Australian racing cyclist. She won the Australian national road race title in 1990 and 1991. [1] She won a bronze medal in the road race at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
She also competed in the road race at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. [2]
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