Tereza Medveďová

Medveďová was born on 27 March 1996, in the city of Brezno in Slovakia.^[5]

Medveďová achieved her first elite successes in cyclocross. She became Slovak champion in this discipline in 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014. In road cycling, she won both Slovak junior titles in the road race and individual time trial in 2011. She athlete was hailed as the country's "greatest cycling discovery" and dubbed "Sagan in a skirt.".^[6][7][8]

At the 2013 UCI Road World Championships, Medveďová finished sixth in the junior women's road race. In 2013 and 2014, she won the national junior titles in the individual time trial, and in 2015 she became the elite time trial champion and runner-up in the road race.^[9][10]

In 2018, Medveďová was nominated as a reserve rider for the omnium at the Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, but did not compete, and she became the Czech national road race champion.^[11] In 2020 she won both national road cycling titles, and in 2018, 2019 and 2020 the titles in the 500-meter time trial and individual pursuit on the track. In 2021 she became Slovak road cycling champion again.^[12]