1. Ellesse Andrews was born on 31 December 1999 and is a New Zealand racing cyclist.
12 Facts About Ellesse Andrews
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Ellesse Andrews represented New Zealand at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she gained a silver medal in the keirin.
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Ellesse Andrews's father is Olympic cyclist Jon Andrews, who represented New Zealand at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and 1992 Summer Olympics.
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Ellesse Andrews's mother is Angela Mote-Andrews, who competed internationally in mountain biking.
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Ellesse Andrews grew up in Wanaka and attended Mount Aspiring College until the end of Year 11 before moving to St Peter's School in Cambridge for the final two years of secondary school.
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Ellesse Andrews started cycling competitively aged 14, initially mountain biking but she soon changed to track cycling.
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Ellesse Andrews asked her father to pay for dance classes and a deal was made that they would do more cycling.
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Ellesse Andrews won four medals, including two gold at the UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships.
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Ellesse Andrews had to go through the repechage to progress to quarter and semi finals.
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At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Ellesse Andrews became the first woman to win the Olympic gold medal in both the keirin and the sprint at the same games.
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Ellesse Andrews had earlier won the silver medal in the team sprint event, alongside Rebecca Petch and Shaane Fulton.
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Ellesse Andrews won Secondary School Sportswoman of the Year at the February 2018 Waikato Regional Sports Awards.