EVENT: Track Cycling: Women's Keirin and Individual Sprint
Ellesse Andrews is an Olympic silver medal winner, having placed second in the Keirin at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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EVENT: Track Cycling: Women's Keirin and Individual Sprint
Ellesse Andrews is an Olympic silver medal winner, having placed second in the Keirin at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Aged just 21-years-old at the time of competition, Andrews came from the back of the field, making her way to the final via the repechage.
She then delivered in the final two laps to claim silver, 0.061 of a second behind Dutch rider Shanne Braspennincx.
Andrews was born to ride, with her mother an international mountain bike competitor and father an Olympic Games Sprinter and double medallist at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.
Andrews showed remarkable skills across both sprint and endurance, winning a gold medal in the team sprint and a bronze in the individual pursuit at the 2016 junior world championships. She converted that to a gold medal the following year in Italy (along with silver in the team pursuit) to earn the Emerging Talent honours at the 2018 Halberg Awards. The young athlete has since refocussed on sprinting with significant success.
Tokyo 2020 was Ellesse's first Olympic Games.
