# Grace Brown (cyclist)

Grace Brown (born 7 July 1992) is a former Australian road racing cyclist, specialising in road time trialling, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam FDJ–Suez. In her final year of professional cycling, Brown won the women's individual time trial event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the same event at the 2024 UCI World Road Cyclng Championships and her fourth time trial title at the Australian Road Cycling Championships. She just missed out on a medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics women’s time trial, finishing fourth. She also competed in the women's road race where she came 47th. She also won the monument classic Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femmes in the same year, and the time trial at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

## Career
### 2015–2018 seasons

Brown started cycling in 2015 after previously being involved in running. She started 2018 riding for Holden Team Gusto Racing. She then joined British UCI team Wiggle High5 for the latter part of 2018 season after being selected as the recipient of the Amy Gillett Cycling Scholarship. Her first race for Wiggle High5 was the Tour of California, a UCI Women's World Tour event, that was held in mid-May.

### 2019–2020 seasons

Brown joined the Mitchelton–Scott team at the start of the 2019 season. She had a good start to the 2019 season winning the Australian National Time Trial Championships and a stage at the Tour Down Under. She achieved her first major victory in Europe in the autumn of 2020 winning Brabantse Pijl in a solo breakaway. She was awarded AusCycling's Female Road Cyclist of the Year award for 2020.

### 2021 season

Brown started the 2021 season in Australia with second places in both the road race and time trial at the National Championships.
Brown had strong results in the 2021 Spring classics. She achieved her first victory in the Women's World Tour at Brugge-De Panne. She was also second at Nokere Koerse and third at the Tour of Flanders. She was selected in the Australian team to compete in the road race and time trial at the Tokyo Olympics. She finished fourth in the time trial.
In August 2021 Brown signed a two-year contract with French Women's WorldTeam FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope. She ended the 2021 season early to have shoulder surgery.

### 2024 season

Brown won the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes in April. In June 2024 Brown announced her plan to retire from professional cycling at the end of the 2024 season and in the following month she won the Olympic time trial on very wet Parisian roads. In September, she won the time trial at the World Championships, becoming the first cyclist to win both the Olympic and World championship time trial races in the same season.

## Major results
### 2017

    Oceania Continental Road Championships
       5th Time trial
       5th Road race

### 2018

    Oceania Continental Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    National Road Championships
       3rd Road race
       4th Time trial
    5th Overall Tour Down Under
    9th Overall Herald Sun Tour

### 2019

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Stage 3 Tour Down Under
    8th Overall Herald Sun Tour
    10th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

### 2020

    1st Brabantse Pijl
    National Road Championships
       2nd Time trial
       3rd Road race
    2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    5th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships

### 2021

    1st Classic Brugge–De Panne
    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial
    2nd Nokere Koerse
    3rd Tour of Flanders
    4th Clasica Femenina Navarra
    4th Time trial, Olympic Games
    5th La Course by Le Tour de France
    6th Dwars door Vlaanderen
    7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
       1st Stage 1
    8th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

### 2022

    1st Time trial, Commonwealth Games
    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    1st La Périgord
    1st Stage 3 Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta
    2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    2nd Overall The Women's Tour
       1st Stage 4
    2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    3rd Classic Lorient Agglomération
    3rd GP de Plumelec-Morbihan
    4th La Classique Morbihan
    5th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
    7th Tour of Flanders

### 2023

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    1st Overall Tour Down Under
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 3
    1st Overall Bretagne Ladies Tour
       1st Stage 3 (ITT)
    1st GP de Plumelec-Morbihan
    2nd Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    5th Overall Tour of Scandinavia
       1st Stage 4 (ITT)
    6th Amstel Gold Race
    6th Overall Tour féminin international des Pyrénées [fr]

### 2024

    1st Time trial, Olympic Games
    UCI Road World Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Team relay
    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       4th Road race
    1st Overall Bretagne Ladies Tour
       1st Stage 1 (ITT) & 3
    1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    5th Deakin University Road Race

### Classics results timeline

Monuments results timeline :
| Monument | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | 14 | 3 | 7 | 23 | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | Did not exist | Did not exist | Did not exist | NH | — | 12 | 13 | 61 |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | — | 2 | — | 2 | 46 | 1 |

### Major championship results timeline

| Event | Event | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Olympic Games | Time trial | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | 4 | Not held | Not held | 1 |
| Olympic Games | Road race | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | 47 | Not held | Not held | 23 |
| World Championships | Time trial | — | — | — | 5 | — | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| World Championships | Road race | — | 48 | — | 91 | — | 35 | 24 | 30 |
| Oceanian Championships | Time trial | 5 | 1 | — | Not held | Not held | — | — | — |
| Oceanian Championships | Road race | 5 | 2 | — | Not held | Not held | — | — | — |
| Commonwealth Games | Time trial | NH | — | Not held | Not held | Not held | 1 | Not held | Not held |
| Commonwealth Games | Road race | NH | — | Not held | Not held | Not held | 33 | Not held | Not held |
| National Championships | Time trial | — | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| National Championships | Road race | — | 3 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
| DNE | Did not exist |