Grace Brown

Grace Brown (born 7 July 1992) is a former Australian road racing cyclist, specialising in road time trialling, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In her final year of professional cycling, Brown won the women's individual time trial event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the same event at the 2024 UCI World Road Cycling Championships and her fourth time trial title at the Australian Road Cycling Championships. She just missed out on a medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics women's time trial, finishing fourth. She also competed in the women's road race where she came 47th. She also won the monument classic Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femmes in the same year, and the time trial at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Career

2015–2018 seasons

Brown started cycling in 2015 after previously being involved in running. She started 2018 riding for Holden Team Gusto Racing. She then joined British UCI team for the latter part of 2018 season after being selected as the recipient of the Amy Gillett Cycling Scholarship. Her first race for was the Tour of California, a UCI Women's World Tour event, that was held in mid-May.

2019–2020 seasons

Brown joined the team at the start of the 2019 season. She achieved her first major victory in Europe in the autumn of 2020 winning Brabantse Pijl in a solo breakaway. She was awarded AusCycling's Female Road Cyclist of the Year award for 2020.

2021 season

Brown started the 2021 season in Australia with second places in both the road race and time trial at the National Championships.

Brown had strong results in the 2021 Spring classics. She achieved her first victory in the Women's World Tour at Brugge-De Panne. She was also second at Nokere Koerse and third at the Tour of Flanders. She was selected in the Australian team to compete in the road race and time trial at the Tokyo Olympics. She finished fourth in the time trial.

In August 2021 Brown signed a two-year contract with French Women's WorldTeam . She ended the 2021 season early to have shoulder surgery.

2024 season

Brown won the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes in April. In June 2024 Brown announced her plan to retire from professional cycling at the end of the 2024 season and in the following month she won the Olympic time trial on very wet Parisian roads. In September, she won the time trial at the World Championships, becoming the first cyclist to win both the Olympic and World championship time trial races in the same season.

Post-cycling career Brown was elected as president of The Cyclists' Alliance in October 2024.

Brown has worked as a commentator for SBS TV's cycling broadcasts in Australia. She also contributes a weekly podcast to SBS titled "Unclipped". In May 2025 she was named as race director for the women's version of a proposed revival of the Herald Sun Tour

Major results

2017 Oceania Continental Road Championships 5th Time trial 5th Road race 2018 Oceania Continental Road Championships

2nd Road race National Road Championships 3rd Road race 4th Time trial 5th Overall Tour Down Under 9th Overall Herald Sun Tour 2019

1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under 8th Overall Herald Sun Tour 10th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2020 1st Brabantse Pijl National Road Championships 2nd Time trial 3rd Road race 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships 2021 1st Classic Brugge–De Panne National Road Championships 2nd Road race 2nd Time trial 2nd Nokere Koerse 3rd Tour of Flanders 4th Clasica Femenina Navarra 4th Time trial, Olympic Games 5th La Course by Le Tour de France 6th Dwars door Vlaanderen 7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos 1st Stage 1 8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2022

National Road Championships

2nd Road race 1st La Périgord 1st Stage 3 Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta

2nd Overall The Women's Tour 1st Stage 4 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 3rd Classic Lorient Agglomération 3rd GP de Plumelec-Morbihan 4th La Classique Morbihan 5th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 7th Tour of Flanders 2023 National Road Championships

2nd Road race

1st Stage 3

1st Stage 3 (ITT) 1st GP de Plumelec-Morbihan

5th Overall Tour of Scandinavia 1st Stage 4 (ITT) 6th Amstel Gold Race 6th Overall 2024

UCI Road World Championships 1st Time trial 1st Team relay National Road Championships

4th Road race

1st Stage 1 (ITT) & 3 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège 5th Deakin University Road Race

Classics results timeline

Major championship results timeline

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