Emily Rosemond
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| Born | 11 March 1986 Cairns, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emily Rosemond (born 11 March 1986 in Cairns) is an Australian short track speed skater, who represented Australia at the 2006 Winter Olympics before changing sports and representing Australia in track cycling. She was given the Keys to the City of Brisbane in 2006 after her Olympic debut at the age of 19 years. She made her Olympic debut as a short track speed skater at the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics. She contested the 1000m and 1500m, finishing 12th and 25th respectively. Rosemond's short track career was interrupted by an ACL rupture, six months before her Olympic Games debut. She retired from short track speed skating in 2008 after the World Championships, and took up the sport of track cycling.
Rosemond represented Australia in track cycling from 2008 to 2011. She made her first Australian cycling team in the 2008/09 season, and won a silver medal at the 2008 World Cup in Melbourne, Australia in the team sprint. She also won the Oceanic Games in the sprint, keirin and team sprint events before competing at the World Championships in Copenhagen in 2009. In 2009 at the UCI Melbourne World Cup in track cycling, she continued her progression, winning a silver medal in the women's team sprint with her wife Kerrie Meares.[1][2] At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India she advanced through to the finals of the women's sprint and won a bronze medal. She retired from track cycling in 2011 after suffering a shoulder tear.
In the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Queensland she carried the Queen's Baton in her home town Cairns and rode the derny during the Women's keirin events.[3]