title: Kathy Watt
text: # Kathy Watt
  
  Kathryn ("Kathy") Ann Watt (born 11 September 1964) is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain (gold in the road race, and silver in the pursuit). She has won 24 national championships in road racing, track racing, and mountain bike, four Commonwealth Games gold medals, and came third in the world time trial championship. She was made a life member of Blackburn Cycling Club in 1990. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
  
  The daughter of marathoner Geoff Watt, Kathy Watt turned first to running, winning the national junior 3 km championship. She began to train on a bike after achilles tendon problems. For a while, she competed in duathlon (running and cycling), but found she was a better cyclist than runner.
  
  In 1996, Watt was in a legal dispute with the Australian Cycling Federation over who would race the pursuit in the Olympic Games. Watt had been told that she would be but was replaced a few days before the event by Lucy Tyler-Sharman. Watt appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, claiming a breach of contract. The court ordered Watt to be reinstated in the race.
  
  In 2000, Watt again became involved in a controversy over a selection, but this time she was not successful in her appeal to the CAS.
  
  She retired after 2000 but came back three years later but was not successful in an attempt to qualify for the 2004 Olympics. After another retirement, Watt worked as a coach and personal trainer. However, she made another comeback to qualify for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where she won a silver medal in the time trial. In January 2006, she won the time trial section of the Australian open road championship in Buninyong, Ballarat.
  
  Watt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Melbourne, with a major in physiology and pathology. She studied nutrition, anatomy, and physiotherapy. She attended Tintern Church of England Girls' Grammar, now Tintern Grammar.
  
  In 2015, she was an inaugural Cycling Australia Hall of Fame inductee.
  
  ## Palmarès
  
  Source:
  
  ### 1990
  
      Commonwealth Games
         Road Race – 1st
         Track Pursuit – 2nd
      Giro d'Italia
         Final Overall GC – 3rd
         1 stage victory
  
  ### 1992
  
      Olympic Games
         Road Race – Gold Medal
         3 km Pursuit (track) – Silver
      Australian Road Race Championships – 1st
  
  ### 1994
  
      Giro d'Italia
         Final Overall GC – 2nd
         3 stage victories
      Giro del Piave – 1st
      Canberra Stage Race
         Final Overall GC – 1st
         5 stage victories
  
  ### 1995
  
      World Time Trial Championship – 3rd
  
  ### 1996
  
      Australian Championships
         Road Race – 2nd place
         Time Trial – 1st place
  
  ### 1997
  
      Oceania Championships
         Road Race – 2nd place
         Time Trial – 1st place
  
  ### 1998
  
      World Time Trial Championship – 6th
      GP des Nations Time Trial – 2nd
      Grande Boucle (Tour Cycliste Féminin)
         stage 12b – 3rd
      Tour Féminin de Bretagne
         Overall – 2nd
         Prologue – 2nd
         stage 1 – 1st
         stage 5 – 2nd
      Grazia Tour
         Overall – 2nd
         stage 2 – 2nd
         stage 3 – 3rd
         stage 4 – 1st
      Tour de l'Aude
         Overall – 7th
         Prologue (Gruissan) – 2nd
         stage 5 (Castelnaudary TT)- 2nd
         stage 6a (Axat to Belcaire) – 2nd
      GP Presov and Pravda
         Overall – 1st
         stage 1 (TT) – 1st
         stage 2 (Criterium) – 2nd
         stage 3 (Road Race) – 3rd
         stage 4 (Road Race) – 3rd
  
  ### 1999
  
      Tour de 'Toona
         Overall – 2nd
         stage 2 – 3rd
         stage 4 – 2nd
         stage 5 – 1st
      Grazia Tour
         Overall – 7th
         stage 3 – 3rd
      Women's Challenge
         stage 4 (Sun Valley Time Trial) – 5th
         stage 9 (Burley to Buhl) – 2nd
      Tour de Snowy
         stage 5 – 3rd
  
  ### 2005
  
      Chrono Champenois – 1st
      GP International Feminin Bretagne (cat. 2) – 2nd GC
      Thuringen-Rundfahrt (cat. 1) – stage
  
  ### 2006 (Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam)
  
      Commonwealth Games
         Individual road time trial – 2nd
         Australian Open Road Championship Time Trial – 1st
  
  ### 2007
  
      Australian Open Road Championship
         Time Trial – 2nd
         Road Race – 9th
      1st Overall Tour de Perth
  
  ### 2008
  
      Australian Open Road Championship
         Time Trial – 4th
         Road Race – 19th
  