Bryony Botha (born 4 November 1997) is a New Zealand road and track cyclist. On the 7th of August 2024 she won a silver medal in the team pursuit during the 2024 summer Olympic Games with Ally Wollaston, Emily Shearman and Nicole Shields.[1]

Career

Botha was raised in Auckland, New Zealand and attended Rangitoto College.[2]

At the 2015 Juniors Track World Championships Botha was part of the team pursuit that won the event, and broke the world team pursuit record.[2] In 2017 Botha represented New Zealand at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships where she won the team pursuit and scratch race.[3][4] Later in the year Botha also competed at the Chile Track Cycling World Cup, winning gold in the women's team pursuit.[5]

She represented New Zealand at the 2018 Commonwealth Games claiming silver in the team pursuit.[6][7] Botha also won bronze in the team pursuit at the 2019 Track Cycling World Championships in Poland.[8]

In February 2025 at the UCI Oceania Track Cycling Championships, Botha set a new world record twice in the women’s 4000 metre individual pursuit, with a time of 4:31:446 while qualifying and a time of 4:30.72 in the final.[9] However, her record was surpassed twice later that week, as on February 15, 2025, Anna Morris won the women’s 4000 metre individual pursuit at the European Track Championships, and set a new world record in that event twice that day, by setting a world record time of 4:28.306 while qualifying and then a new world record time of 4:25.874 in the final.[10][11]

Career achievements

Major results

2014
National Junior Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Omnium
3rd 500m time trial
3rd Team pursuit, UCI Juniors Track World Championships
2015
1st Team pursuit, UCI Juniors Track World Championships
2nd Omnium, National Junior Track Championships
3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
2016
1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships
2017
National Track Championships
1st Team pursuit
3rd Madison
2018
2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
2019
1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships
3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
2022
1st Individual pursuit, Commonwealth Games
2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
2nd Individual pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Awards

In 2015 Botha won Auckland's Youth Sportswoman of the Year award and North Harbour Junior Sports Woman of the Year award.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Olympics.com".
  2. ^ a b c "Bryony Botha – Auckland's Youth Sportswoman of the Year 2015". College Sport Media. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  3. ^ Zealand, Cycling New. "NZ World Champions on fire while Australia Team Pursuit impress". www.cyclingnewzealand.nz. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Three Oceania titles in two days for Kiwi cyclist Kirstie James". Stuff. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Gold medal joy for two of the NZ combinations at track cycling world cup". Stuff. 10 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Sport". ZB.
  7. ^ "Bryony Botha | New Zealand Olympic Team". New Zealand Olympic Team. 17 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  8. ^ "Cycling: Thomas Sexton's bronze medal breaks NZ drought at world championships". Newshub. Archived from the original on 2 March 2019 – via www.newshub.co.nz.
  9. ^ "Botha bags world record twice in new individual pursuit distance". Cycling New Zealand.
  10. ^ "'I just tried to dig really deep' - Great Britain's Anna Morris sets new 4000 metre individual pursuit world record | Cyclingnews". web.archive.org. 16 February 2025.
  11. ^ https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/anna-morris-breaks-world-record-twice-to-claim-individual-pursuit-european-title/ar-AA1z9eMz
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