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Sarah Gigante (born 6 October 2000) is an Australian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step.[2]
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Full name | Sarah Gigante | ||||||||||||||
Born | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 6 October 2000||||||||||||||
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Current team | AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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2018 | Holden Team Gusto | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Roxsolt Attaquer | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
2020–2021 | Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank[1] | ||||||||||||||
2022–2023 | Movistar Team | ||||||||||||||
2024- | AG Insurance–Soudal | ||||||||||||||
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One day races & Classics
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Medal record
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In 2018, Gigante was national junior champion in the road race, individual time trial and criterium,[3] won the junior women's road race at the 2018 Oceania Cycling Championships,[4] won the silver medal in the Junior World Track Championships points race,[5]
In 2019, aged 18, Gigante won the elite women's race at the Australian National Road Race Championships.[6][7] She was awarded the 2019 Amy Gillett Foundation Scholarship to support her development as a professional cyclist.[8]
In December 2019, it was announced that Gigante would turn professional with the Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank team.[1] In January 2020, she won the Australian National Time Trial Championships.[9] She won the overall at the Australian National Road Series.[10] She re-signed with Tibco-SVB for the 2021 season.[11]
Gigante finished second in the inaugural UCI Cycling Esports World Championships.[12]
She had a strong start to the 2021 season in Australia winning the general classification and two stages at the Santos Festival of Cycling.[13] She then defended her national title in the individual time trial.[14]
Gigante was selected to compete in the road race and time trial at the Tokyo Olympics.[15] She finished 40th in the road race and 11th in the time trial.[16]
Gigante had her first win in Europe at the Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa.[17]
Through mutual agreement with Movistar, she left the team to join AG Insurance–Soudal without serving the third year of her contract.[18] Gigante won the 2024 Women's Tour Down Under, her first Women's WorldTour victory.[19]
In 2018, Gigante achieved a perfect high school Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) score of 99.95, earning her the prestigious University of Melbourne Chancellor's Scholarship.[20] She is studying a double degree in linguistics and geography.[21]
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