Annette Edmondson

Her greatest successes to date are her results at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she claimed a silver in the individual pursuit and a gold in the scratch race, which is her first ever gold medal at an international level and her first time being Commonwealth Champion. In addition, she has competed at the National Track Championships with gold medal results at an elite level since 2012 in multiple disciplines. She also has competed at international events, representing in Australia at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, where she has secured silver medals in the Omnium (2012), Team pursuit (2012 and 2013).

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Edmondson claimed a silver in the Individual Pursuit along with fellow athlete Amy Cure who took a bronze in the event. On the 3rd day of competition (26 July 2014), Edmondson took part in the 10 km Scratch Race, where she raced to victory taking her 1st Commonwealth Games Gold Medal and again fellow athlete Amy Cure also succeeded coming out with a silver medal from the event.

On 22 October 2014, Wiggle–Honda announced that Edmondson had signed with the team for the 2015 season, where she remained until the team disbanded at the end of the 2018 season.

After the Olympics, in 2013, she signed a professional road contract with Orica-AIS, in her first season with the team, she secured a major victory taking 1st overall in the Tour of Chongming Island. Her and teammates took 3rd in the 2013 World Road Race Championships TTT in Florence, Italy.

Edmondson has also competed in the London 2012 Olympics, securing a bronze medal for Australia in the women's Omnium and finished in fourth place in the Team pursuit.

Her first World Championships came in 2012 at the UCI World Championships in Melbourne in which she achieved silver in both the Omnium and Team Pursuit. These results helped her secure a place in the 2012 Australian Olympic Team.

In 2010, she took part in her first elite level National Championships finishing with silvers in the Team sprint, Keirin and 500m TT as well as a bronze in the Individual sprint.

Edmondson has also had an interest in charity work from a young age. Her first recognition of her work came in 2007 in which she became "Make Indigenous Poverty History Youth Ambassador for SA". Since then, she has made personal visits to deprived areas, such as parts of Indonesia to give up her time as volunteer. She is fluent in Indonesian.

When she was 13, the South Australian Sports Institute visited her school and she was identified as having the physical attributes to have a potential career in cycling. After a year in the Talent Search Program, her first major win came at the 2006 National Junior Track Championships where she won two bronze medals in the Under 17 500m Time Trial and Sprint. From that point, she began to specialise in sprint cycling and as a junior won sprint events at a National and Oceania level.

Annette Edmondson (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian cyclist who competes on the track with Cycling Australia's High Performance Unit (HPU) and on the road for the professional women's team Wiggle High5.