# Stephanie Morton

Stephanie Morton, OAM (born 28 November 1990) is a retired Australian track cyclist who participated in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. She has won national and international cycling titles, and was Felicity Johnson's tandem pilot at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a gold medal.

## Personal

Stephanie Morton was born in Adelaide on 28 November 1990. As of 2013, she works for the "Bee Safe on Bikes" education program for junior primary school students.

## Cycling

Morton is a member of South Coast Cycling Club and is part of Team Jayco AIS. She started cycling competitively at the age of 15. Competing at the 2011 National Keirin Final, she finished second behind Anna Meares. She made her Australian national team debut at the 2011 Para-cycling Track World Championships with Felicity Johnson. She has said forming a friendship and real partnership was key for the pair's success.
In 2012, she participated in the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles as the pilot for Johnson, and finished first in the B tandem 1 km time trial and the B Tandem sprint. At the 2012 London Paralympics, they won a gold medal in the Women's 1 km Time Trial B event, and were subsequently awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."
In November 2012, Morton came first in the Keirin and second in the sprint at the Oceania Track Championships. In the third round of the 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics in Aguascalientes, Mexico, she came first in the team sprint with Kaarle McCulloch and 6th in the keirin, while at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk, Belarus, she came fourth in the team sprint (with McCulloch) and sixth in the individual sprint.
At the 2013 Australian National Track Championships in Sydney, she came first in the keirin, individual sprint, and team sprint (with Rikki Belder). In February 2014, she scored an upset win at the Australian track cycling championships by beating Anna Meares in the Keiren for the first time. Meares tweeted a photo of a cap that she had signed for Morton five years before, on which she had written: "Steph, maybe one day you'll beat me".
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Morton competed in the track sprint and 500 m time trial, while Johnson had a new partner, Holly Takos. Morton rode a personal best time of 34.079 in the 500 m time trial at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, but won silver after Anna Meares posted a faster time. However, she defeated Meares in the track sprint, winning two heats to none in the best-of-three final to take the gold medal.

## Major results
### 2011

    1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial, UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships (Pilot for Felicity Johnson)
    1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial, New Zealand Oceania Para-Cycling Regional Cup (Pilot for Felicity Johnson)

### 2012

    1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial, Paralympic Games (Pilot for Felicity Johnson)
    UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
       1st Tandem B – 1000m Time Trial (Pilot for Felicity Johnson)
       1st Tandem B – Sprint (Pilot for Felicity Johnson)

### 2013

    Melbourne Cup on Wheels
       1st Keirin
       2nd Sprint

### 2014

    Oceania Track Championships
       1st Keirin
       1st Sprint
       1st Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch)
    Commonwealth Games
       1st Sprint
       2nd 500m Time Trial
    Adelaide Cycling Grand Prix
       1st Sprint
       2nd Keirin
    1st Sprint, Super Drome Cup
    2nd Sprint, South Australian Track Classic

### 2015

    Oceania Track Championships
       1st Keirin
       1st Team Sprint
       2nd Sprint
    3rd Sprint, Super Drome Cup

### 2016

    Austral
       1st Keirin
       1st Sprint
    Oceania Track Championships
       2nd Keirin
       3rd Sprint
    2nd Sprint, ITS Melbourne DISC Grand Prix
    2nd Sprint, ITS Melbourne Grand Prix
    2016 Summer Olympic Games
       =13th Cycling Track Keirin
       13th Cycling Track Sprint
       4th Cycling Track Sprint

### 2017

    Oceania Track Championships
       1st Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch)
       1st Sprint
       1st Keirin
    Australian Track Championships
       1st Sprint
       1st Team Sprint (with Rikki Belder)
       1st Keirin
    ITS Melbourne – DISC Grand Prix
       1st Keirin
       1st Sprint
    ITS Melbourne – Hisense Grand Prix
       1st Keirin
       1st Sprint
    Austral
       1st Keirin
       2nd Sprint
    UCI World Track Championships
       2nd Sprint
       2nd Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch)
    2nd Sprint, Round 1, (Pruszków) Track Cycling World Cup

### 2018

    Commonwealth Games
       1st Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch)
       1st Sprint
       1st Keirin
       2nd 500m Time Trial