BROWN Grace

UCI Road World Championships

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial
2020	Imola, ITA	91	5
2018	Innsbruck, AUT	48	-

Ten best performances in major races in career

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2021	Road Race	Brugge - De Panne	De Panne, BEL
2	2020	Road Race	Liege - Bastogne - Liege	Liege, BEL
3	2021	Road Race	Ronde van Vlaanderen	Oudenaarde, BEL
5	2021	Road Race	La Course by Le Tour	Landerneau, FRA
6	2019	Team Time Trial	Vargarda TTT	Vargarda, SWE
10	2019	Road Race	Great Ocean Road Race	Geelong, VIC, AUS
11	2017	Team Time Trial	Vargarda TTT	Vargarda, SWE
13	2020	Road Race	Fleche Wallonne	Huy, BEL
14	2020	Road Race	Ronde van Vlaanderen	Oudenaarde, BEL
16	2018	Road Race	Great Ocean Road Race	Geelong, VIC, AUS

Oceania Championships

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial
2018	Evandale, TAS, AUS	2	1
2018	Railton, TAS, AUS	2	1
2017	Canberra, ACT, AUS	5	5

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, OTL - Outside the Time Limit

Athlete

International Studies, Politics - University of Melbourne, Australia

Husband Elliot Smith

English

Team BikeExchange [Australia] since 2019

She has competed in cross-country running at national level in Australia. (cyclingtips.com, 13 Oct 2020; cycling.org.au, 23 Jul 2016)

Turned professional in 2018

In 2021 she withdrew from the final two stages of the Giro d'Italia Donne after crashing. (Instagram profile, 09 Jul 2021)

She took part in her first road race in 2016 in Australia. (cyclingtips.com, 13 Oct 2020)

"I started my sports career in running - cross-country and middle-to-long distances on the track, so from 1,500m to five kilometres. I competed nationally but never outside of Australia. My physique was actually not that great for running and I suffered from a long line of injuries like stress fractures. After so many years of getting injured and recovering again I was fed up with it all. Some people had suggested I should ride a bike but I held that off. I did some commuting on a bike but that was it. But shortly after university I bought my first carbon bike. I joined a club in Melbourne and started riding criterium races." (cyclingtips.com, 13 Oct 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 09 Jul 2021)

She often practises breathing and visualisation techniques ahead of a race. (The Footprints of Leadership podcast, 18 Aug 2020)

"I am not afraid to fail while trying. I just get very excited and want to get the most out of myself. It's a disappointment if I feel like I couldn't get the most out of myself on a given day." (cyclingtips.com, 13 Oct 2020)

In 2020 she was named Female Road Cyclist of the Year by Cycling Australia. (auscycling.org.au, 17 Feb 2021)