Caitlin Ward

Caitlin Ward (born 1 February 1994) is an Australian track cyclist who has been selected for the 2024 Summer Paralympics.

Personal Caitlin Ward was born in Frankston, Victoria, on 1 February 1994. She has a master's degree in Physiotherapy from Flinders University in Adelaide. She runs track sessions for AusCycling in South Australia and co-owns JKT Coaching.

Cycling Ward became interested in cycling after participating in the Around the Bay in a Day in 2005 and the Great Victorian Bike Ride in 2006 when she was in the fifth grade at primary school.

She was sidelined between 2015 and 2018 with a series of injuries including glandular fever and a broken ankle after a gym accident in which it was crushed by a 250 kilogram leg press, but she came back to win the women's sprint and keirin at the Australian national titles in 2019. She represented Australia at the 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Brisbane but missed out on selection for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Ward was selected as pilot for Gallager at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, where they won silver in the Women's B 1000m Time Trial.