Meg Lemon has a long-held passion for sport and healthy living and worked as a dietitian across remote Indigenous communities and rural communities in Victoria. Meg acquired a brain injury while commuting on a bicycle and as a form of rehab and challenge to face a fear, she was encouraged to get back on a bike. Immediately, she found cycling gave her a sense of freedom and purpose and helped her forget about her differences.
Read MoreMeg Lemon has a long-held passion for sport and healthy living and worked as a dietitian across remote Indigenous communities and rural communities in Victoria.
Meg acquired a brain injury while commuting on a bicycle and as a form of rehab and challenge to face a fear, she was encouraged to get back on a bike. Immediately, she found cycling gave her a sense of freedom and purpose and helped her forget about her differences.
In 2015 Meg was selected in the national Para-cycling team and made international debut soon after. Since then, she has won 12 national championships and finished on the podium at every UCI Road and Track event in which she has represented Australia in the past five years.
Making her Paralympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Meg claimed a bronze medal in the women’s time trial C4 event after clocking a time of 41:14.42. In the women’s individual pursuit C4, she crossed the line in 3:48.342 to finish in fourth position. She lined up with Australian teammates Amanda Reid and Gordon Allan in the mixed team sprint C1-5 event, finishing ninth with a time of 56.989. In her final event, the women’s road race C4-5, she finished in eighth place with a time of 2:31:17.
Cycling has helped with brain neuoplasticity and allowed Meg to build a new life, balancing part-time work as a sports dietitian and cycling coach.
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