Chloe Hosking

Chloe Hosking
	Hosking at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Personal information
Born	1 October 1990 (age 34); Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur teams
2004–2008	Canberra Cycling Club
2009	Moving Ladies
Professional teams
2010–2012	Team HTC–Columbia Women
2013–2014	Team Hitec Products
2015–2016	Wiggle–Honda
2017–2019	Alé–Cipollini
2020	Rally Cycling
2021–2022	Trek–Segafredo
2023	Roxsolt Liv SRAM
Major wins
	Australian National Criterium Championships ; Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta (2019) ; Tour of Guangxi Women's WorldTour (2019) ; Stage 1 Giro d'Italia Femminile (2019) ; Commonwealth Games (2018) ; Stage 3 The Women's Tour (2017); La Course by Le Tour de France (2016); Tour of Chongming Island (2009, 2016); Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo (2012)
Medal record
Commonwealth Games

Chloe Hosking (born 1 October 1990) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. She holds the record for the most professional wins for an Australian woman with 39 professional wins in her career.^[4] Hosking has represented Australia at junior and then senior levels since 2007. Following success in a number of international events she turned professional in 2010. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race,^[5] and won the women's road race at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Personal life

Childhood and early life

Hosking was born in Bendigo, Victoria, and moved to the suburb of Campbell in the Australian Capital Territory.^[5] As a child she played field hockey and did rock climbing at a national level, however following an injury she asked her father, a keen cyclist, to help get her into cycling.^[6] She began cycling competitively in 2002 at the age of twelve,^[6] and first represented Australia in 2007 at the age of seventeen.^[5]

Hosking started as a track cyclist, but changed her focus to road racing events in 2007.^[7] She now specialises in road cycling events, being a strong sprinter and a capable climber.^[6]

Outside of cycling Hosking is a student, having completed a Bachelor of Communications degree at Griffith University specialising in journalism.^[8] Hosking is currently studying a Professional Doctorate in Law, to graduate as a Juris Doctor.^[8]

Hosking is married to Jack Lindsay.^[9]

HOSKING Bikes

Chloe Hosking is the founder of HOSKING Bikes, the first bike brand in the world founded by a female professional road racing cyclist.

Cycling career

2004-2009: Early years

Hosking competed in her first national cycling events in 2004, and began representing Australia in international events in 2007. As a junior Hosking competed for the Canberra Cycling Club, mainly riding in track cycling events and achieving considerable success, including winning the Women's Under 19 Scratch race at the 2008 Australian National Track Championships.^[5] Despite this success on the track, in 2007 she shifted her focus to road cycling events. Over the next couple of years she would become a road racing specialist,^[10] with an emphasis on sprint challenges in bunch finishes to races.^[7]

In 2008 Hosking rode for Australia in the Women's road race at the UCI Juniors Road World Championships in South Africa where she placed 37th.^[5] In 2009, she relocated to Europe to ride competitively for the Moving Ladies club in the Netherlands, and by the end of the year she had been signed by top professional team Team HTC–Columbia Women.^[7]^[10] Shortly afterwards, she was the first Team HTC–Columbia Women rider to win a 2010 event, with a victory at the Australian National Criterium Championships.^[10]

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, Hosking won the bronze medal in the Women's road race.^[5] It was revealed after the event that the Australian team of six riders was under orders to ride for a victory for Hosking in the 112-kilometre (70-mile) event in preference to veteran Australian cyclist Rochelle Gilmore, however in the final sprint for the line Gilmore came out with the gold medal ahead of English rider Lizzie Armitstead in second, leaving Hosking in third.^[11] At the end of the 2010 season Hosking was ranked 52nd in the world on the UCI elite women's rankings, and was younger than any of the riders ranked above her.^[12]

Professional career

She competed in the women's road race at the 2012 Olympic Games, but finished outside the time limit.^[13] She finished in 26th place in the road race at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.^[14]

In October 2014 Wiggle–Honda confirmed that Hosking would join them in 2015 after she had spent the previous two seasons with Team Hitec Products.^[15] Her 2015 season was shortened by a hand injury in July.^[16]

In 2018, she won the women's road race at the Commonwealth Games.^[16]

In October 2020, Hosking signed a two-year contract with the Trek–Segafredo team, from the 2021 season.^[17]