# Shelley Olds

Shelley Olds (born September 30, 1980) is an American former professional racing cyclist.

## Career

Olds was born and raised in Groton, Massachusetts. She studied health and human performance at Roanoke College in Virginia, and was captain of their women's soccer team. A star on the soccer pitch, Olds was a two-time NSCAA All-South Region selection, four-time All-ODAC selection and the 2002 ODAC Player of the Year. She was inducted into the Roanoke Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016.
After college, she moved to California and was introduced to cycling by Rob Evans, whom she later married. She started racing locally on the road, quickly moving up in the ranks and winning the Road Cycling State Championships. She then joined Peanut Butter & Co.TWENTY12 team, won the Track National Scratch Race Championships in 2008 and 2009 and then won the National Criterium Championships in 2010 and 2011. She began racing internationally soon after and earned podium results in the Tour of New Zealand, Trofeo Costa Etrusca Iii in Italy, Drentse 8 Van Dwingeloo in Netherlands, as well as Liberty Classic road race in Philadelphia. She registered with the UCI under her married name of Shelley Evans for the 2010 season, but reverted to her maiden name in later seasons.
In 2012, Olds signed with Dutch team AA Drink–leontien.nl and won the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup to earn a qualifying spot on the US National team for the Road race at the London Olympics. At the Olympics, she was one of the four riders in the winning breakaway group that split from the peloton with 50 kilometres (31 miles) to go, but suffered a puncture 29 kilometres (18 miles) later. After a tire change, she caught back up to the peloton and finished in 7th place.
Olds carried on with her professional racing career with multiple UCI Women teams, and continued her ascent to become one of the top sprinters in the world. She took multiple Sprinters' jerseys in races across Italy, Norway and China. Back in North America, she won the Winston-Salem Cycling Classic in North Carolina, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau in Quebec, Canada, and the White Spot/Delta road race in British Columbia, Canada.
In 2015, while riding for the Italian Alé–Cipollini team, Olds won the inaugural edition of La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta in a bunch sprint beating out top sprinters in the world at the time. She moved back to the United States in 2016 to join Cylance Pro Cycling team and started the year with a 2nd place finish in the Women's Down Under Tour in Australia, but had to retire in March of that year after crashing and suffering from head injuries in back to back races in Europe.

## Major results

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### 2008

    1st Scratch, National Track Championships
    8th Liberty Classic

### 2009

    1st Scratch, National Track Championships
    2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
       2nd Points race, Melbourne
       3rd Scratch, Manchester
    3rd Points race, 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Copenhagen
    3rd Liberty Classic

### 2010

    1st Road race, Pan American Road Championships
    1st National Criterium Championships
    1st Overall Women's Tour of New Zealand
       1st Stages 1, 2, 5 & 6
    1st Stage 10 Giro d'Italia Femminile
    2nd Liberty Classic

### 2011

    1st GP Costa Etrusca
    2nd Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo
    2nd Liberty Classic
    5th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
    6th Grand Prix de Dottignies

### 2012

    Tour of Chongming Island
       1st World Cup
       4th Overall Stage race
    1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia Femminile
    2nd 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
    4th Road race, Pan American Road Championships
    4th Open de Suède Vårgårda
    7th Road race, Summer Olympics
    8th Holland Hills Classic

### 2013

    1st Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau
    2nd Le Samyn des Dames
    2nd Omloop van het Hageland
    4th Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo
    4th Philadelphia Cycling Classic
    5th Overall Belgium Tour
    5th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
       1st Points classification
    5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    5th Cholet Pays de Loire Dames
    6th Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
    7th Chrono Gatineau
    8th Overall Tour of Chongming Island

### 2014

    1st Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile — Memorial Michela Fanini
       1st Points classification
       1st Prologue & Stage 1
    1st GP Comune di Cornaredo
    1st Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
    2nd Overall Tour of Chongming Island
    2nd Novilon EDR Cup
    2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies
    3rd Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs
    3rd Ronde van Drenthe World Cup
    5th La Course by Le Tour de France
    6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
    6th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup
    8th Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica
       1st Stages 3 & 5
    10th Sparkassen Giro

### 2015

    1st White Spot / Delta Road Race
    1st La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta
    2nd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2
    2nd EPZ Omloop van Borsele
    Tour of Chongming Island
       4th World Cup
       5th Overall Stage race
    4th Philadelphia Cycling Classic
    7th Dwars door de Westhoek
    9th Crescent Women World Cup Vårgårda

### 2016

    2nd Overall Women's Tour Down Under
    4th Omloop van het Hageland
    5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
    6th Ronde van Drenthe