Annie Last
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Annie Last in 2012
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| Personal information | |
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| Born | 7 September 1990 [1] Bakewell, Derbyshire |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Milka Superior |
| Discipline | Cross-country mountain biking, cyclo-cross |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2012 | Milka Superior |
| 2013– | Trek Factory Racing |
Annie Last (born 7 September 1990), is an English professional cyclist, who specialises in mountain biking and cyclo-cross. She was chosen as a female competitor in the cross country mountain bike event for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She then went on to take 8th place.
Career
Last was introduced to mountain biking by her father and brother as she accompanied them on racing trips.[1] In 2009 she joined the British Cycling Olympic Academy programme, and was originally expected to be a potential athlete for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2] During the two-year-long build up for the 2012 Summer Olympics, she elected to compete in full adult competition instead of the under-23 events she was normally entitled to enter. This was in order to enhance her chances of competing at the Games.[3]
At the World Cup event in Dalby Forest during May 2011, she finished a career best of 14th place.[4] At the first World Cup event of 2012, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, she placed ninth, although at one point she was leading the race.[2] She finished one place better, in 8th place, at the World Cup event in La Bresse, and later another 9th-place finish in Windham in the United States.[5]
Her qualification for the 2012 Olympics came down to the World Cup event in La Bresse in May 2012. Great Britain did not get an automatic qualification spot for the women's mountain biking event, and so finishes in international events were required for the team to gain a place at the Games in the event.[6] She finished eighth at the event, giving Great Britain a spot at the Olympics in her event, and was expected to be announced in the British team for the Games.[3] Her place in the women's cross country was later confirmed along with Liam Killeen, who will compete in the men's competition.[7]
She was a member of the Milka-Superior Mountain Bike Racing Team.[8]
She is now a member of the Trek Factory Mountain Bike Racing Team.[9]
Personal life
She has deferred from attending university to study medicine in order to be a professional mountain biker.[3]
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- Living people
- 1990 births
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- Cyclo-cross cyclists
- People from Bakewell
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- English female cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
