Ruby Roseman-Gannon

Ruby Roseman-Gannon’s family home was just down the road from Melbourne’s Brunswick Velodrome and she grew up around cyclists.

“My dad took me to a Brunswick Cycling Club junior clinic when I was five,” Ruby said.

It was her dad’s passion, plus the joys of riding and racing outside, that drew Ruby to the sport.

At the Brunswick club, she spent her formative years alongside Australian cycling teammate Lucas Plapp and Tokyo Olympian Sarah Gigante.

By her early teens, Ruby showed promise as both a track and road rider. When she was 16, she finished third in the criterium at the U19 national championships before winning back-to-back under-23 titles in 2019 and 2020. She then joined the Australian track cycling academy in Adelaide in 2019, halfway through her science degree at the University of Melbourne.

Ruby was selected to compete at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 off the back of a stellar National Road Championships in Ballarat, where she won the criterium and finished third in the road race in nearby Buninyong.

She topped it off by finishing second on her WorldTour debut on stage one of the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana in Spain, her first race in Europe as a pro.

Ruby kicked off 2023 by finishing fourth at the Tour Down Under in South Australia.

She was also fourth at the Thuringen Ladies Tour in Germany and turned in strong performances at the Tour de Suisse Women, the Giro d’Italia Donne and the Tour of Scandinavia.

Ruby signalled an outstanding start to the 2024 season when she won the criterium national title for the second time and beat four previous winners to take out her maiden elite road race.

Ruby rose to her first World Tour victory in June 2024, at the final stage of the Tour of Britain, after capitalising from a rival celebrating too early. Luxembourg's Christine Majerus sat up just before the line in Manchester, raising her arm in triumph believing she had won. But it was a calamitous miscalculation, as Ruby stormed through in wet conditions to beat the Luxembourger by less than half a wheel.

After a successful 2024, Ruby finished the year making her Olympic debut in Paris. Riding in the women's road race, she finished 39th with a time of 4:07:12.