Bryony Botha

Bryony Botha (born 4 November 1997) is a

Bryony Botha
New Zealand road and track cyclist. On the 7th
of August 2024 she won a silver medal in the
team pursuit during the 2024 summer Olympic
Games with Ally Wollaston, Emily Shearman
and Nicole Shields.[1]

Career
Botha was raised in Auckland, New Zealand and
attended Rangitoto College.[2]

At the 2015 Juniors Track World Championships

Botha was part of the team pursuit that won the
event, and broke the world team pursuit
record.[2] In 2017 Botha represented New
Zealand at the Oceania Track Cycling
Botha in 2020
Championships where she won the team pursuit
Personal information
and scratch race.[3][4] Later in the year Botha
also competed at the Chile Track Cycling World Born 4 November 1997
Cup, winning gold in the women's team Takapuna, New Zealand
pursuit.[5] Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb)
She represented New Zealand at the 2018
Commonwealth Games claiming silver in the Team information
team pursuit.[6][7] Botha also won bronze in the Disciplines Track
team pursuit at the 2019 Track Cycling World Road
Championships in Poland.[8]
Role Rider
In February 2025 at the UCI Oceania Track Rider type Endurance
Cycling Championships, Botha set a new world Medal record
record twice in the women’s 4000 metre
Women's track cycling
individual pursuit, with a time of 4:31:446 while
qualifying and a time of 4:30.72 in the final.[9] Representing New Zealand
However, her record was surpassed twice later Olympic Games
that week, as on February 15, 2025, Anna Morris 2024 Paris Team pursuit
won the women’s 4000 metre individual pursuit World Championships
at the European Track Championships, and set a
2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Individual pursuit
new world record in that event twice that day, by
2023 Glasgow Team pursuit
2019 Pruszków Team pursuit
setting a world record time of 4:28.306 while 2023 Glasgow Individual pursuit
qualifying and then a new world record time of 2024 Ballerup Individual pursuit
4:25.874 in the final.[10][11] Commonwealth Games
2022 Birmingham Individual pursuit

Career achievements 2018 Gold Coast Team pursuit

2022 Birmingham Team pursuit
UCI Junior Track World Championships
Major results 2015 Astana Team pursuit
2014 2014 Gwangmyeong Team pursuit
National Junior Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Omnium
3rd 500m time trial

3rd Team pursuit, UCI Juniors Track

World Championships
2015
1st Team pursuit, UCI Juniors
Track World Championships
2nd Omnium, National Junior Track
Championships
3rd Time trial, National Junior Road
Championships
2016
1st Team pursuit, National Track
Championships
2017
National Track Championships
1st Team pursuit
3rd Madison

2018
2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth
Games
2019
1st Team pursuit, National Track
Championships
3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling
World Championships
2022
1st Individual pursuit,
Commonwealth Games
2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth
Games
2nd Individual pursuit, UCI Track
Cycling World Championships
Awards
In 2015 Botha won Auckland's Youth Sportswoman of the Year award and North Harbour Junior Sports
Woman of the Year award.[2]

References
1. "Olympics.com" (https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/results/cycling-track/women-s-team-pur
suit/fnl---------).
2. "Bryony Botha – Auckland's Youth Sportswoman of the Year 2015" (https://www.collegesport
media.co.nz/bike/bryony-botha-aucklands-youth-sportswoman-of-the-year-2015). College
Sport Media. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
3. Zealand, Cycling New. "NZ World Champions on fire while Australia Team Pursuit impress"
(https://www.cyclingnewzealand.nz/news/nz-world-champions-on-fire-while-australian-team-
pursuit-impress). www.cyclingnewzealand.nz. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
4. "Three Oceania titles in two days for Kiwi cyclist Kirstie James" (http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/
other-sports/99099564/three-oceania-titles-in-two-days-for-kiwi-cyclist-kirstie-james). Stuff.
Retrieved 29 March 2018.
5. "Gold medal joy for two of the NZ combinations at track cycling world cup" (https://www.stuff.
co.nz/sport/other-sports/99720585/gold-medal-joy-for-two-of-the-nz-combinations-at-track-c
ycling-world-cup). Stuff. 10 December 2017.
6. "Sport" (https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/sport/). ZB.
7. "Bryony Botha | New Zealand Olympic Team" (http://www.olympic.org.nz/athletes/bryony-bot
ha/). New Zealand Olympic Team. 17 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
8. "Cycling: Thomas Sexton's bronze medal breaks NZ drought at world championships" (http
s://web.archive.org/web/20190302025101/https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2019/02/
cycling-thomas-sexton-s-bronze-medal-breaks-nz-drought-at-world-championships.html).
Newshub. Archived from the original (https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2019/02/cyclin
g-thomas-sexton-s-bronze-medal-breaks-nz-drought-at-world-championships.html) on 2
March 2019 – via www.newshub.co.nz.
9. "Botha bags world record twice in new individual pursuit distance" (https://www.cyclingnewz
ealand.nz/news-2/news/botha-bags-world-record-twice-in-new-individual-pursuit-distance/).
Cycling New Zealand.
10. " 'I just tried to dig really deep' - Great Britain's Anna Morris sets new 4000 metre individual
pursuit world record | Cyclingnews" (https://web.archive.org/web/20250216153330/https://w
ww.cyclingnews.com/news/i-just-tried-to-dig-really-deep-great-britains-anna-morris-sets-new
-4000-metre-individual-pursuit-world-record/). web.archive.org. 16 February 2025.
11. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/anna-morris-breaks-world-record-twice-to-claim-
individual-pursuit-european-title/ar-AA1z9eMz

External links
Bryony Botha (https://www.siteducyclisme.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=97071) at
Cycling Archives (archived)
Bryony Botha (https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/195123) at ProCyclingStats
Bryony Botha (https://www.cyclebase.nl/cb-content/index.php?lang=en&page=renner&id=70
718) at CycleBase
Bryony Botha (https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes/bryony-botha) at Olympics.com
 Bryony Botha (https://www.olympic.org.nz/athletes/bryony-botha/) at the New Zealand
Olympic Committee
Bryony Botha (https://web.archive.org/web/2022/https://results.gc2018.com/en/cycling-road/
athlete-profile-n6023913-bryony-botha.htm) at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games
(archived)
Bryony Botha (https://results.birmingham2022.com/#/athlete-details/53801) at the
Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

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