Anna Henderson
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 Henderson at the 2021 UCI Road World Championships. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Anna Louise Henderson |
| Nickname | Hendo |
| Born | 14 November 1998 Hemel Hempstead |
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (160 cm) |
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Lidl–Trek |
| Disciplines | Road Cycling |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Time Trial / All Rounder |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2016 | Lovelo Cinelli RT |
| 2017–2019 | Team OnForm |
| 2019 | Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank (stagiaire) |
| Professional teams | |
| 2020 | Team Sunweb[1] |
| 2021–2024 | Team Jumbo–Visma |
| 2025– | Lidl–Trek[2] |
| Major wins | |
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Anna Louise Henderson (born 14 November 1998) is a British professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Tour Team Lidl–Trek.[3][4] She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Henderson was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in 1998 and grew up in Edlesborough in Buckinghamshire. She attended Aylesbury High School.[5] Growing up, her ambition was to win an Olympic medal in the Winter Olympics. She was a competitive ski racer, however in 2015, a major crash in the National Championships in Tignes forced Henderson to step back from Skiing and used cycling as a rehab method, she then changed her interest to cycling. She made the decision when she was fifteen. She had broken her leg and cycling was prescribed as helpful to her recovery. As a result, cycling became her focus.[6] In 2021, Henderson graduated from the University of Birmingham, completing a Sports Science degree.
She rode in the women's road race event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.[7] In 2018, Henderson won the British National Circuit Race Championships,[8] and the under-23 British National Time Trial Championships in 2019.[9]
In 2022, Henderson secured a silver medal in the Time Trial at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where Grace Brown of Australia took the gold medal. This was Henderson's first major medal representing her country.
In September 2023 she was in the Netherlands at the UEC European Road Championships. She was second in the Women's Time Trial[10] and she was eighth in the Road race. She had come home in the time trial in first position, but Switzerland's Marlen Reusser finished after her with a better time.[10]
Henderson qualified for the time trial at the 2024 Olympics and she was identified in the British press as a potential medalist. They cited her British titles and her success in gaining a silver at the previous year’s European championships, and fourth place in Glasgow at the world championships.[6] She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics behind Grace Brown of Australia[11][12] on very wet Parisian roads.[13]
