title: Kerrie Meares
text: # Kerrie Meares
  
  Kerrie Meares (born 4 September 1982, in Blackwater) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She is the older sister of Olympic Champion Anna Meares.
  
  In 2002 and after winning 2 x Commonwealth Games Gold Medals in Manchester, Meares was awarded the Queensland Sportswoman of the Year. Later that year, she was awarded the Peter Lacey award, an award bestowed on Queensland Academy of Sport athletes who have achieved great international success as well as being an ambassador for their sport. Meares went on to win further medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in both the 500m Time Trial and Match Sprint in Melbourne, but retired before a third consecutive games in Delhi, India.
  
  As a Junior athlete, Meares was extremely successful breaking numerous State and National records in Sprint discipline events. She was a contender for the 2004 Olympic team, but pulled out from competition due to nagging back injuries, suffered during numerous crashes that occurred during competitions earlier that year.
  
  Meares retired from professional track cycling in 2007 and married former compatriot and sportswoman Emily Rosemond. Post retirement from cycling, Kerrie and her wife Emily started the Track Cycling Academy based in Brisbane and online.
  
  ## Honours
  
  * 2002 Australian Female Track Cyclist of the Year
  * 2002 Queensland Sportswoman of the Year
  * 2002 Peter Lacey Award
  * 1999-2001 Multiplex Women's Sport Rising Star Scholarship Award
  * 1997, 2000, 2001 Morning Bulletin / Frenchville Sports Club Junior Sports Star of the Year
  * 2000 Australian Junior Women's Track Cyclist of the Year
  * 1998 Coca-Cola Junior Sports Star of the Year
  
  ## Career highlights
  
  ### 1999
  
      2nd 500m TT, World Track Championships - Junior
      3rd Scratch Race, Oceania Games, Sydney
  
  ### 2000
  
      1st 500m TT, World Track Championships - Junior
  
  ### 2002
  
      3rd 500m TT, World Track Championships, Copenhagen
      2nd Sprint, World Track Championships, Copenhagen
      1st Team Sprint, Sydney
      1st 500m TT, Commonwealth Games, Manchester
      1st Sprint, Commonwealth Games, Manchester
  
  ### 2003
  
      2nd Keirin, Sydney
  
  ### 2004
  
      1st 500m TT, Oceania Games, Melbourne
      1st Sprint, Oceania Games, Melbourne
      1st Keirin, Oceania Games, Melbourne
  
  ### 2005
  
      2nd 500m TT, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
      2nd Sprint, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
      3rd Keirin, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
      3rd Sprint, Oceania Games, Wanganui
      2nd 500m TT, Oceania Games, Wanganui
      1st Keirin, Oceania Games, Wanganui
  
  ### 2006
  
      2nd 500m TT, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
      1st Team Sprint, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
      2nd Sprint, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
      1st Keirin, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
      3rd 500m TT, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne
      3rd Sprint, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne
      1st Team Sprint, Sydney
      2nd 500m TT, Oceania Games, Melbourne
      1st Sprint, Oceania Games, Melbourne
      1st Keirin, Oceania Games, Melbourne
  
  ### 2007
  
      1st Team Sprint, Australian National Track Championships, Sydney
      1st Sprint, Australian National Track Championships, Sydney
      2nd Sprint, Oceania Cycling Championships, Invercargill
      1st Team Sprint, Oceania Cycling Championships, Invercargill
      2nd Team Sprint, Sydney
  
  ### 2008
  
      3rd Team Sprint, Los Angeles
  
  ### 2009
  
      1st Keirin, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Kerrie Meares grew up close to Rockhampton in a suburb called Gracemere. Kerrie and Olympic sister Anna Meares now have streets named after them.
  
  Following retirement from cycling, via the Adelaide Advertiser Kerrie announced her marriage to Olympic speed-skater Emily Rosemond in 2015.
  
  