Alana Forster

Alana Forster (born 4 May 1986) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She won a gold medal and a silver medal at the 2023 UCI World Championships in Glasgow. Forster won a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.

Personal life Forster suffered injuries as a result of a car accident where her car was t-boned. Forster was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and spent a week in intensive care. She suffered injuries to her pelvis, femur, ulna, patella and ribs.

At the Australian Road Cycling Championships, she won the gold medal in the Women's Road Race WC4 and bronze medal in the Women's Time Trial WC4. At the 2023 Oceania Track Championships, she defeated Meg Lemon in Women's Individual Pursuit C5 and finished third in the Women's Omnium C5.

Forster won the gold medal in the Women's Scratch race C5 at the 2023 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Glasgow after making a successful attack with five laps to go.

At the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Foster finished fifth in the Women's Scratch Race C5 and sixth in the Women's Individual Pursuit C5. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won the bronze in the Women's C5 Individual Time Trial, finished fifth in the Women's Individual pursuit C5 and seventh in the Women's road race C4-5. At the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Ronse, she won gold medals in Women's Time Trial C5 and Women's Road Race C5.

She is a member of the Ballarat Sebastopol Cycling Club.

Recognition 2025 - Victorian Institute of Sport Para Athlete of the Year.