Leigh Hobson

Leigh Shawna Hobson (born August 10, 1970 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professional road cyclist. She represented her nation Canada, as a 37-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also placed third in the women's elite category at the Canadian Championships (1996, 2000, and 2006). Hobson also mounted first-place finishes at the Tri-Peak Challenge in 2006, and at the fourth stage of Tour of the Gila in Silver City, New Mexico in 2008.

Hobson qualified for the Canadian squad in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by claiming the bronze medal and receiving one of the nation's three berths from the UCI World Cup. She successfully produced her birthday reward and a best possible result for Canada women's cycling team with a seventeenth-place effort in 3:32:52, finishing behind the host nation's Gao Min by less than an inch stretch.

Career highlights

1996 3rd Canadian Championships (Road) 2000 3rd Canadian Championships (Road) 3rd Overall, Redlands Bicycle Classic, United States 3rd Stage 3 2005 3rd Stage 7, Tour de Toona, United States 2006 3rd Overall, Tri-Peaks Challenge, United States 1st Stage 2 3rd Canadian Championships (Road) 2007 2nd Overall, Tour of New Zealand, New Zealand 3rd Stage 4 2nd Overall, Sequoia Cycling Classic, United States 2nd Stage 4, Tri-Peaks Challenge, United States 3rd Canadian Championships (Road) 3rd Stage 1, Joe Martin Stage Race, United States 2008 2nd Canadian Championships (Road) 2nd Overall, Tour de Leelanau, United States 2nd Overall, Tour of the Gila, United States 1st Stage 5 3rd Stage 1 2nd Stage 6, Nature Valley Grand Prix, Stillwater, Minnesota (USA) 2nd Stage 4, Redlands Bicycle Classic, United States 3rd Stage 2, Redlands Bicycle Classic, United States 17th Olympic Games, Beijing (CHN)