Interviewed Anna Kiesenhofer back in 2016. A few notes:
-She was a runner whose training was running through meadows between rural towns in Austria
-The Cambridge graduate was dead last in the British university (BUCS) 10 time-trial in 2012, with 34:25. Anything is possible
-She was a runner whose training was running through meadows between rural towns in Austria
-The Cambridge graduate was dead last in the British university (BUCS) 10 time-trial in 2012, with 34:25. Anything is possible
-She would borrow cycling equipment, take trains around Europe and rely on the generosity of strangers to do sportives. She beat all but 11 men in the Gran Fondo Ventoux
-She taught herself training with Allen and Coggan's 'Training and Racing with a Power Meter'
-She taught herself training with Allen and Coggan's 'Training and Racing with a Power Meter'
-Clear parallels to Emma Pooley: Kiesenhofer was a mathematics Cambridge masters student who picked up cycle racing in earnest due to stubborn running injuries.
-Despite not liking bunch racing, won Copa España in 2016 after doing her PhD at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
-Despite not liking bunch racing, won Copa España in 2016 after doing her PhD at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Annoyingly, I deleted the sound file from our hour-long chat in 2016. But this is all the tip of the iceberg. You probably won't find a more remarkable, intelligent or unlikely #Olympics2021 champion than Anna Kiesenhofer
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