GIGANTE Sarah

Ten best performances in major races in career

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
23	2021	Road Race	Trofeo Binda	Cittiglio, ITA
24	2020	Road Race	Great Ocean Road Race	Geelong, VIC, AUS
41	2021	Road Race	Gent - Wevelgem	Wevelgem, BEL
61	2021	Road Race	Ronde van Vlaanderen	Oudenaarde, BEL
73	2019	Road Race	Great Ocean Road Race	Geelong, VIC, AUS
79	2021	Road Race	Amstel Gold Race	Vilt, NED

Oceania Championships

Year	Location	Road Race
2019	Railton, TAS, AUS	2

UCI Road World Championships (Juniors)

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial
2018	Innsbruck, AUT	58	15

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

Learning new languages. (cycling.org.au, 04 Feb 2019)

Athlete

Geography, Linguistics - University of Melbourne, Australia

English

Team TIBCO - Silicon Valley Bank [United States of America] since 2020

Her brother Scott Gigante has competed in road cycling, and competed in the U23 road race at the 2015 National Championships in Australia. (Scott Gigante Instagram profile, 01 Apr 2017; procyclingstats.com, 10 Jan 2015)

She has represented Australia in track cycling, winning silver in the points race at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Aigle, Switzerland. (SportsDeskOnline, 17 Jul 2021)

Turned professional in 2020

In April 2021 she broke her collarbone, her fibula, and her elbow in a crash at La Fleche Wallonne in Belgium. She was off the bike for over a month. (Instagram profile, 15 May 2021 sbs.com.au, 23 Apr 2021)

In the early part of 2018 she broke her left elbow, her left shoulder, and her right wrist in a crash during a club race. She also dislocated her right shoulder in a crash later that year. (womenwhocycle.com, 28 Nov 2019)

She cycled for fun as a child. She took it up as a sport at age eight at Brunswick Cycling Club in Victoria, Australia. (cycling.org.au, 04 Feb 2019)

"My family has always been really into outdoor and active hobbies, so when I was a little kid, we used to go on the Great Victorian Bike Ride each year. It's nine days of riding across the state, camping in a new town each night with lots of families and also some school groups, while big trucks take your bags and tents between the towns for you. At eight years old, after accompanying my mum for two trips on a trailer bike and one on a tandem, I told her that I was 'sick of looking at her backside' and wanted to do the 600km on my own bike! Mum thought we might need something extra to get me prepared for the long rides. We googled 'cycling club for kids' and up came Brunswick Cycling Club. I went along to their junior clinic on a Sunday morning and was hooked from the very first day!" (voxwomen.com, 29 Jun 2021; cycling.org.au, 04 Feb 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (voxwomen.com, 29 Jun 2021)

Winning the individual time trial at the 2019 Australian Championships in Buninyong, VIC, Australia. (voxwomen.com, 29 Jun 2021)

Dutch cyclists Annemiek van Vleuten, Anna van der Breggen, and Marianne Vos, Australian cyclists Annette Edmondson and Amanda Spratt. (voxwomen.com, 29 Jun 2021)