Georgia Simmerling

Georgia Simmerling (born 11 March 1989) is a Canadian road and track cyclist, who currently competes for UCI Women's Team . Simmerling has also previously competed in alpine skiing and skicross, and is the first Canadian to compete in three different sports in three different Olympic Games.

She won a bronze medal in team pursuit cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and also won a silver medal in team pursuit at the 2016 World Championships.

She finished fourth overall in the team pursuit cycling event, representing Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Athletics career Alpine skiing Simmerling represented Canada in alpine skiing at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, She was a member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team for the previous five years, however she suffered a catastrophic injury in 2011. Simmerling sustained a concussion as well as suffering MCL injuries in both knees. Simmerling competed for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in ski cross where she placed 14th overall. She started her return to ski cross competition in the 2016–17 World Cup with three ninth places and an eighth, before taking the first podium of her comeback when she finished third in the first of two rounds at Innichen, again behind Thompson.

Track cycling

After suffering a wrist injury in ski cross competition, Simmerling switched to competitive track cycling. She became the first Canadian athlete to compete at the Olympics in three different sports. There, she cycled to a bronze medal in the team pursuit with Glaesser, Beveridge, Lay, and Brown. After the win, she announced that she would begin training for ski cross again at the 2018 Winter Olympics. They were engaged in August 2021.