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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 October 1989 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | C4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Port Adelaide Cycling Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Meg Lemon (born 5 October 1989) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics where she won a bronze medal [1] and the 2024 Paris Paralympics, [2] where she won a silver medal medal. [3]
Lemon was born on 5 October 1989. [4] She attended Sacred Heart College in Adelaide, South Australia. Lemon has a bachelor's degree, Nutrition and Dietetics from Flinders University and works as a sports dietitian. Lemon sustained a brain injury when hit by a car while riding to work and left her with a weakened right side of her body. [5]
Lemon is classified as a C4 cyclist. [6] In her international debut at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles, United States, she finished fourth in the Women's C4-C5 Scratch Race. [7]
In September 2017, at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Lemon won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Women's Road Race C4. [8] At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Pursuit C4 and was ninth in Women's Scratch Race C4-5 and Women's 500 m Time Trial C4. At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Maniago, Italy she won the bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial C4 and finished fourth in the Women's Road Race C4. [9]
At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she won the silver medal in the Women's Scratch Race C4 and the bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4. [10]
At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Emmen, Netherlands, she won bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Road Race C4. [11]
At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Milton, Ontario, she won the silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4. [12]
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Lemon won the bronze medal in the Women's Road Time Trial C4 with a time of 41:14.42 and finished fourth in Women's Individual Pursuit C4, ninth together with Amanda Reid and Gordon Allan in the Mixed Team Sprint C1–5 and eighth in Women's Road Race C4-5. [13]
Lemon won the silver medal in the Women's Road Race C4 at 2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Baie-Comeau. [14]
At the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, she won two bronze medals - Women's Pursuit C4 and Women's Scratch Race C4. [15]
At the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, she won silver in the Women's C4 Individual Time Trial. [3] She finished sixth in Women's Individual pursuit C4 and twelfth in the Women's road race C4-5.
Lemon has held a South Australian Institute of Sport scholarship athlete. [16]
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