title: Katie Mactier
text: # Katie Mactier
  
  Katie Mactier (born 23 March 1975 in Melbourne) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She began racing in 1999 at 24 and was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne.
  
  She is a member of the Carnegie Caulfield Cycling Club. She lives in Melbourne, Australia with her 2 Children, Charlie & Lachie.
  
  She won the pursuit at the 2005 world championship, the 2005 World Cup and the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. At the Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics Mactier broke the world record in the heats in the pursuit, but Sarah Ulmer set a new record in the final, relegating her to a silver medal.
  
  In 2001 Mactier won in the national road championship. In 2002/2003 she was the Australian pursuit champion, and second in the 2003 world pursuit championship. She was 2003 and 2005 Australian Female Track Cyclist of the Year.
  
  She was a favourite in the pursuit at the 2008 Olympics but ended seventh overall after being defeated by eventual winner Rebecca Romero of Great Britain in her qualifying round.
  
  ## Palmarès
  
  ### 2001
  
      1st Australian National Road Race Championships
      1st Valdengo-Biella
      1st Sprint Classification Skilled Bay Series
  
  ### 2003
  
      1st Trofeo Guareschi
      1st Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix
      1st Overall Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
      1st Stage 3 Geelong Women's Tour
      1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
      2nd Pursuit, World Championships
      2nd Road World Cup Geelong
      2nd Overall Geelong Women's Tour
      2nd T-Mobile International
  
  ### 2004
  
      1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
      1st Stage 1 Geelong Tour
      2nd Olympic Individual Pursuit (silver medal)
      2nd Pursuit, World Championships
      2nd Overall Geelong Tour
      1st Pursuit, World Cup, Los Angeles
  
  ### 2005
  
      1st Pursuit, World Championships
      1st Pursuit, World Cup
      1st Pursuit Oceania Titles
  
  ### 2006
  
      1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
      1st Jayco Bay Cycling Classic AUS
      1st Individual Pursuit, 2006 Commonwealth Games 3:30.290;
      1st Pursuit, World Cup, Sydney
  
  ### 2007
  
      3rd Pursuit, World Championships
      1st Australian National Road Race Championships
      1st Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships
      1st Pursuit, World Cup, Sydney
      1st Pursuit, World Cup, Beijing
      1st Oceania Individual Pursuit
      1st Stage 1 Mount Hood Cycling Classic
      1st Stage 2 Mount Hood Cycling Classic
      2nd Stage 6 Mount Hood Cycling Classic
      2nd Stage 3 Nature Valley Grand Prix
      3rd Stage 4 Mount Hood Cycling Classic
  
  ### 2008
  
      1st Prelude, 2008 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin (cat. 1)
      4th Individual pursuit, 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
  
  ## Sources
  
  * ↑ AIS Athletes at the Olympics Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  * ↑ "Wesley Olympians". Wesley College. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
  