Amanda Spratt

Amanda Spratt (born 17 September 1987) is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam.

Spratt was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics. In 2012, 2016 and 2020 she won the Australian National Road Race Championships in Buninyong, Victoria. In 2018, she secured the silver medal in the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria.

Personal
Spratt, nicknamed "Spratty", was born on 17 September 1987 in Penrith, New South Wales, which is a suburb of Sydney. She went to Springwood Public School before going to Blue Mountains Grammar School for high school. From 2007 to 2008, she attended Charles Sturt University where she earned a University Certificate in Business. , she lived in Springwood, New South Wales.

Spratt is a member of the Riders Council of The Cyclists' Alliance.

Cycling
Spratt raced in BMX events as a junior and competed in the BMX World Championships in Melbourne when she was 11. She began road and track racing when she was twelve years old. She has been coached by Martin Barras since 2009 and is also coached by Gary Sutton. Her primary training base is in Australia's Blue Mountains region, with a secondary training base in Varase, Italy where she lives eight months a year. She is a member of the Penrith Cycling Club. She has held a cycling scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport and the NSW Institute of Sport.

Spratt competed at the 2004 World Junior Track Championships in the United States. She competed at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games. She competed at the 2004 Junior Road World Championships in Italy. She missed most of the 2009 cycling season because of a back injury. She competed at the 2010 UCI Road World Championships. She finished eleventh at the 2011 Giro di Toscana Femminile in Italy. She finished fourth at the 2011 Sweden World Cup teams time trial in Vårgårda, Sweden. She finished first at the 2011 Tour de Feminine Krasna Lipa in the Czech Republic. She finished eighth at the 2011 Women's Tour of New Zealand. She finished first in the road race and fourth in the individual time trial at the 2012 Australia Road National Championships in Buninyong, Australia. She finished second at the 2012 Jayco Bay Classic in Victoria, Australia. She finished fourth at the 2012 Ronde van Gelderland in the Netherlands. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's road race, her first Olympics. She finished outside the time limit.

In 2018, Spratt elected to forgo a debut senior Commonwealth Games representation for Australia on the Gold Coast, to focus on an Ardennes campaign in Europe. She achieved her first ever one-day podium at World Tour or World Cup level, with a third placing at the Amstel Gold Race in April. Then in May, she won her first Women's World Tour race with a large enough leading margin to move up ten places on the final stage to also win the general classification at Emakumeen Euskal Bira.

In 2021, Spratt was selected in the Australian team to compete in the road race at the Tokyo Olympics. Unfortunately, she was unable to finish in her event, the Women's Road Race, in very trying conditions.

Major results

 * 2004
 * Commonwealth Youth Games
 * 1st gold medal blank.svg Road race
 * 1st gold medal blank.svg Time trial
 * 1st gold medal blank.svg Points race
 * 2nd Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships
 * UCI Junior Road World Championships
 * 3rd bronze medal blank.svg Time trial
 * 9th Road race


 * 2005
 * 2nd Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships


 * 2006
 * 2nd Points race, National Junior Track Championships
 * 3rd bronze medal blank.svg Individual pursuit, Oceania Games


 * 2007
 * National Track Championships
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Team pursuit
 * 2nd Individual pursuit
 * 3rd Points race
 * 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships


 * 2008
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships


 * 2010
 * 8th Overall Tour of New Zealand


 * 2011
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 4th Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT


 * 2012
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Road race
 * 4th Time trial
 * 3rd 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
 * 4th Ronde van Gelderland
 * 7th GP Comune di Cornaredo
 * 9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad


 * 2013
 * 3rd bronze medal blank.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
 * 3rd Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
 * 4th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
 * 6th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt
 * 7th EPZ Omloop van Borsele
 * 8th Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs


 * 2014
 * 2nd silver medal blank.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
 * 4th Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT
 * 5th Road race, National Road Championships
 * 8th Omloop van het Hageland


 * 2015
 * 1st Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol
 * 3rd Overall Tour of Norway
 * 4th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt
 * 4th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
 * 5th Overall Tour Down Under
 * 6th SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn
 * 8th Crescent Vårgårda TTT
 * 9th Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira


 * 2016
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
 * 1st Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
 * 2nd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt
 * 1st Stage 6
 * 5th Overall The Women's Tour
 * 6th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
 * 7th Overall Tour Down Under
 * 7th Crescent Vårgårda


 * 2017
 * 1st Jersey blue.svg Overall Tour Down Under
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
 * 5th Overall Giro d'Italia
 * 5th Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
 * 1st Stage 2
 * 5th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
 * 6th La Course by Le Tour de France
 * 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
 * 8th Strade Bianche


 * 2018
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
 * 1st Stage 4
 * 1st Jersey orange.svg Overall Tour Down Under
 * 1st [[Image:Jersey blackdots.png|20px]] Mountains classification
 * 1st Stage 3
 * 1st SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Road race, UCI Road World Championships
 * 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
 * 2nd Team time trial, Tour of Norway
 * 3rd Overall Giro Rosa
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Mountains classification
 * 1st Stage 6
 * 3rd Amstel Gold Race
 * 4th Road race, National Road Championships
 * 4th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
 * 5th La Flèche Wallonne
 * 5th GP de Plouay
 * 6th Overall Holland Ladies Tour
 * 7th Strade Bianche
 * 8th La Course by Le Tour de France


 * 2019
 * 1st Jersey orange.svg Overall Tour Down Under
 * 1st Stage 2
 * 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
 * 2nd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
 * 1st Stage 2
 * 2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour
 * 2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
 * 2nd Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
 * 3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Road race, UCI Road World Championships
 * 3rd Overall Giro Rosa
 * 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
 * 4th Overall Bay Classic Series
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 5th Overall Tour de Yorkshire


 * 2020
 * 1st MaillotAustralia.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
 * 1st Stage 1 Bay Classic Series
 * 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
 * 1st Stage 2
 * 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
 * 8th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
 * 10th Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa


 * 2021
 * 4th Amstel Gold Race
 * 9th La Flèche Wallonne
 * 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège


 * 2022
 * 8th Overall Tour de Romandie
 * 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège


 * 2023
 * 2nd Overall Tour Down Under
 * 1st Mountains classification
 * 2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
 * 2nd Trofeo Oro
 * 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
 * 3rd Overall Setmana Ciclista-Volta Comunitat Valenciana Fèmines