# Katherine Bates

Katherine (Katey) Bates (born 18 May 1982 in Sydney) is an Australian former track and road cyclist. A multiple national champion, Bates rode as a professional since 2002. Katey's career highlights included Australian Road Race Champion in 2006, World Points Race Champion in 2007 and Commonwealth Games champion in 2002 and 2006.
Bates competed in both track and road at the Olympic Games, finishing fourth in the individual pursuit at the 2004 Summer Olympics and sixth in the points race at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Bates retired in December 2011 due to injury.
Her sister, Natalie Bates, was also a professional racing cyclist.
She now co-runs Chicks Who Rides Bikes, a women's cycling organisation which supports women at all levels of cycling as well as working as a freelance television commentator and host. She has covered World Championships, Olympic Games, Tour de France and other National and World Tour cycling events for Network 7 and SBS Australia, where she hosts Tour de France preview show, Bonjour Le Tour.
She co-hosts The Wheelhouse cycling podcast with Australian sports journalist Joel Spreadborough.
Her spouse, Luke Miers, is a Walkley Award-winning camera-operator.

## Palmarès
### 2000

    2nd World Time Trial Championships, Plouay – Junior

### 2001

    2nd Points Race, World Track Championships, Antwerp
    3rd Amstel Gold Race Netherlands

### 2002

    3rd Individual Pursuit, World Track Championships, Copenhagen
    1st Points Race, Commonwealth Games, Manchester
    2nd Individual Pursuit, Commonwealth Games, Manchester

### 2003

    1st Individual Pursuit, World Cup, Moscow
    1st Overall, Geelong Tour, Australia
    2nd Australian Criterium Championships, Victoria

### 2004

    4th Individual Pursuit, 2004 Summer Olympics
    1st Stage 2, Vuelta a Castilla y León, Zamora
    1st Individual Pursuit, World Cup, Manchester
    1st Points Race, World Cup, Manchester
    2nd Stage 2, Geelong Tour, Australia
    3rd overall, Geelong Tour, Australia

### 2005

    1st Points Race, World Cup, Manchester
    1st Individual Pursuit, World Cup, Manchester
    1st Scratch Race, World Cup, Manchester
    1st Individual Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
    1st Points Race, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
    1st Scratch Race, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
    2nd Individual Pursuit, World Track Championships, Los Angeles
    2nd Scratch Race, World Track Championships, Los Angeles
    3rd Points Race, World Track Championships, Los Angeles

### 2006 (Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung)

    1st Australian National Road Race Championships, Mount Torrens
    1st Scratch Race, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
    1st Points Race, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
    2nd Individual Pursuit, Australian National Track Championships, Adelaide
    1st Points Race, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne – defeated teammate Rochelle Gilmore
    2nd Individual Pursuit, Commonwealth Games, Melbourne
    1st Stage 3, Tour du Grand Montréal, Canada
    1st Stage 4, Euregio Ladies Tour, Bilzen
    1st Stage 5, Bay Classic, Docklands
    1st Points Race, World Cup, Sydney
    1st Stage 1, Tri-Peaks Challenge USA
    1st Individual Pursuit Track World Cup, United Kingdom
    2nd Scratch Race Track World Cup, United Kingdom
    3rd Women's Road World Cup Geelong, Australia

### 2007

    1st Stage 1, 1st Stage 5 & 1st Final GC Bay Classic
    1st Points Race, World Track Championships, Palma de Mallorca
    3rd Points Race, Track World Cup, Beijing
    3rd Overall, Tour du Grand Montréal, Canada
    3rd Stage 1, International Thüringen Rundfahrt, Germany
    3rd Australian Criterium Championship, Queensland

### 2008

    6th Points race, 2008 Summer Olympics

### 2010

    1st Scratch Race, Oceania Track Cycling Championships, Adelaide
    1st Women's Team Pursuit, Oceania Track Cycling Championships, Adelaide
    1st Women's Team Pursuit, Track World Cup, Melbourne

### 2011

    2nd Women's scratch, 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Apeldoorn