# Anna Henderson

Anna Louise Henderson (born 14 November 1998) is a British professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Tour Team Visma–Lease a Bike. She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

## Life

Henderson was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in 1998 and grew up in Edlesborough in Buckinghamshire. She attended Aylesbury High School. Growing up, her ambition was to win an Olympic medal in the Winter Olympics. She was a competitive international ski racer, however in 2015, a major crash in the National Championships in Tignes forced Henderson to step back from Skiing and used cycling as a rehab method, she then changed her interest to cycling. She made the decision when she was fifteen. She had broken her leg and cycling was prescribed as helpful to her recovery. As a result, cycling became her focus. In 2021, Henderson graduated from the University of Birmingham, completing a Sports Science degree.
She rode in the women's road race event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships. In 2018, Henderson won the British National Circuit Race Championships, and the under-23 British National Time Trial Championships in 2019.
In 2022, Henderson secured a silver medal in the Time Trial at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where Grace Brown of Australia took the gold medal. This was Henderson's first major medal representing her country.
In September 2023 she was in the Netherlands at the UEC European Road Championships. She was second in the Women's Time Trial and she was eighth in the Road race. She had come home in the time trial in first position, but Switzerland's Marlen Reusser finished after her with a better time.
Henderson qualified for the time trial at the 2024 Olympics and she was identified in the British press as a potential medalist. They cited her British titles and her success in gaining a silver at the previous year’s European championships, and fourth place in Glasgow at the world championships. She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics behind Grace Brown of Australia on very wet Parisian roads.

## Major Results
### 2018

    1st National Criterium Championships
    Tour Series
       1st Aberystwyth
       1st Stevenage

### 2019

    National Under-23 Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    Tour Series
       1st Durham
       1st Brooklands
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    3rd Team relay, UCI Road World Championships

### 2021

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Derny, National Track Championships
    1st Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites Dames
       1st Stages 1 & 2
    7th Dwars door het Hageland WE
    8th Le Samyn
    10th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
    10th GP de Plouay

### 2022

    1st Prologue Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
    RideLondon Classique
       1st Mountains classification
       1st British rider classification
    2nd Time trial, Commonwealth Games
    3rd Road race, National Road Championships
    7th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

### 2023

    La Vuelta Femenina
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)
       Held after Stage 1
    UEC European Road Championships
       2nd Time trial
       8th Road race
    3rd Road race, National Road Championships
    3rd Overall Simac Ladies Tour
    3rd Overall Baloise Ladies Tour
    4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    8th Nokere Koerse
    9th Gent–Wevelgem
    9th Tour of Flanders
    10th Ronde van Drenthe

### 2024

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    2nd Time trial, Olympic Games
    2nd Overall Tour of Britain