# Ally Wollaston

Ally Wollaston (born 4 January 2001) is a New Zealand professional track racing cyclist and road cyclist riding for FDJ–Suez. She was a double-medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics and is the first New Zealand rider to win two titles at the same track World Championships.

## Early life

Wollaston was born on 4 January 2001 in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the youngest of three sisters; her sister Nina has medalled at a Para-cycling road World Cup in 2019. She grew up in Auckland but later moved to the Waikato. She got into cycling through her family as they were helping out with the St Peter's School cycling team. Wollaston was educated at St Peter's School, and as of 2024 is a part-time law student at the University of Waikato.

## Career

Wollaston was part of the New Zealand team that won the team pursuit race in Hong Kong as part of the 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup. She also won gold in the individual pursuit at the 2019 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships.
Wollaston began racing professionally on the road for NXTG Racing in August 2021. In January 2022, Wollaston won the National criterium championships. She then went to join her team in Europe and got her first win for the team at the Grand Prix du Morbihan on 14 May 2022.
Wollaston was selected to represent New Zealand at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. However, she crashed and injured her wrist during stage two of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes, and was unable to compete at the Commonwealth Games.
Wollaston started the 2024 season in good form and won a stage in the Tour Down Under in February. She developed knee problems, though, that required surgery at the end of March. After having missed the 2022 Commonwealth Games, this brought on fears of also missing the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, but the recovery went well. In June, she won two stages of the Volta a Catalunya in Spain.
At the Paris Olympics, Wollaston won silver in the team pursuit (alongside Nicole Shields, Bryony Botha, and Emily Shearman), and a bronze medal in the omnium.
At the 2024 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Ballerup, Denmark, Wollaston become the first New Zealand rider to win two world championship titles at the same track world championships, taking gold medals in the elimination race and the omnium as well as bronze in the scratch race.

## Major results

Sources:

### Road
#### 2018

    National Junior Championships
       1st Road race
       2nd Time trial

#### 2019

    National Junior Championships
       1st Road race
       4th Time trial

#### 2020

    National Under-23 Championships
       3rd Road race
       4th Time trial

#### 2021

    5th Overall Watersley Womens Challenge

#### 2022

    1st Road race, National Under-23 Championships
    1st Grand Prix du Morbihan Féminin
    2nd Road race, National Championships
    3rd Overall Belgium Tour
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 1
    3rd Overall Bretagne Ladies Tour
    10th La Classique Morbihan

#### 2023

    National Championships
       1st Criterium
       1st Road race
    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
    1st Overall Festival Elsy Jacobs
       1st Points classification
       1st Youth classification
       1st Stage 2
    1st Schwalbe Classic

#### 2024

    Volta a Catalunya
       1st Stages 1 & 3
    1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under

#### 2025

    1st Surf Coast Classic
    1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
    1st Clásica de Almería
    7th Schwalbe Women's One Day Classic

### Track
#### 2018

    2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Junior Championships

#### 2019

    UCI World Junior Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       2nd Team pursuit
    1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Hong Kong

#### 2023

    2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

#### 2024

    UCI World Championships
       1st Elimination
       1st Omnium
       3rd Scratch
    Olympic Games
       2nd Team pursuit
       3rd Omnium