Anna Henderson

Anna Louise Henderson (born 14 November 1998) is a British professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Tour Team . She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Early life and career Henderson was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in 1998 and grew up in Edlesborough in Buckinghamshire. She attended Aylesbury High School. Growing up, her ambition was to win an Olympic medal in the Winter Olympics. She was a competitive ski racer, however in 2015, a major crash in the National Championships in Tignes forced Henderson to step back from Skiing and used cycling as a rehab method, she then changed her interest to cycling. She made the decision when she was fifteen. She had broken her leg and cycling was prescribed as helpful to her recovery. As a result, cycling became her focus. In 2018, Henderson won the British National Circuit Race Championships, and the under-23 British National Time Trial Championships in 2019.

In 2022, Henderson secured a silver medal in the Time Trial at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where Grace Brown of Australia took the gold medal. This was Henderson's first major medal representing her country.

In September 2023 she was in the Netherlands at the UEC European Road Championships. She was second in the Women's Time Trial and she was eighth in the Road race. She had come home in the time trial in first position, but Switzerland's Marlen Reusser finished after her with a better time. She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics behind Grace Brown of Australia on very wet Parisian roads.

Major results

2018 1st National Criterium Championships Tour Series 1st Aberystwyth 1st Stevenage 2019 National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Road race 1st Time trial Tour Series 1st Durham 1st Brooklands 2nd Road race, National Road Championships

2021 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st Derny, National Track Championships 1st Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites Dames 1st Stages 1 & 2 7th Dwars door het Hageland WE 8th Le Samyn 10th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour 10th GP de Plouay 2022 1st Prologue Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs RideLondon Classique 1st Mountains classification 1st British rider classification

3rd Road race, National Road Championships 7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2023 La Vuelta Femenina 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Held after Stage 1 UEC European Road Championships

8th Road race 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Simac Ladies Tour 3rd Overall Baloise Ladies Tour 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 8th Nokere Koerse 9th Gent–Wevelgem 9th Tour of Flanders 10th Ronde van Drenthe 2024 National Road Championships 1st Time trial 2nd Road race

2nd Overall Tour of Britain 2025 Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 2 Held & after Stage 2 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 8th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 8th Amstel Gold Race