27 September - World Championships ......

Post-Race Reflections

Today is a day of reflection after the World Time Trial Championships yesterday and I can’t say that I am feeling at all happy or impressed with my result. I was 23rd, which is nowhere near what I was aiming for. I believed that top 10 was a realistic goal and was therefore thinking about top 5. I crossed the line smashed but was crushed when I found out that I had only finished 7th fastest with 20 riders still to finish.

Yes, it was definitely a demanding course but my legs had been good in the last few weeks leading up to the big event and I was feeling happy and confident. So, it was certainly a knife in the guts to have finished way off the pace. The good thing to emerge is that I know what work I now need to do to improve next year and I am super motivated.

The Road Race is on Saturday and it is predominantly the same course as the Time Trial, so we will all sit down together later today and talk about our race plan. So, with the TT behind me, I am keen for Saturday and will let you know how it goes.

27 September - NEWSFLASH ......

Time Trial World Championships

Sara raced the Time Time at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany yesterday. Finishing in 23rd position, Sara's time was only 2mins 30secs down on the Gold Medal winning ride, held over the tough and testing 25.1 kilometre course.
A full race report is available on cyclingnews.com

All eyes are now firmly focused Satuday's 133km Road Race. We're all cheering ya Sara!

Send your support to fanmail@saracarrigan.com

9 September - Diary Update

Great Wall

I have just returned back home to Belgium after being in France for two weeks where we were staying in school accommodation without internet! However, I am now back in the land of the living and last time I wrote was just before I was to contest a 6day tour in Germany called, Thüringen Rundfhart, which translates as the Tour of Thüringen. ‘Thüringen’ is actually a region in the Eastern part of Germany .....

9 September - NEWSFLASH ......

Sara 2nd in TT

Sara finished 2nd overnight in a Time Trail in Italy. Full details and results to follow.

4 July - Diary Update

Oh Canada

I arrived back ‘home’ in Belgium yesterday from Canada and after a successful first half of the season, I am now going to enjoy a week’s rest. The racing in Canada with the Aussies went well, relishing in a win on the 2nd last day of the Prince Edward Island Tour. Our racing first began in Montreal, which is in the French speaking part of Canada in the Quebec province. .....

25 June - News Brief

New Photos Online Now

New photos are online now from Sara's photoshoot with Teschner Diva, and the Montreal World Cup Race.

1 June - Diary Entry

4 Weeks, 5 Countries

I am currently sitting in a very cool Italian bar sipping on a very yummy ‘capuccio’, while pondering how I am going to begin telling you of my racing adventures over the last month. Racing has been full on but I now have 2weeks of rest (ie: 2 weeks of training without racing). I arrived in Italy a little over a week ago and have been staying in ‘Varese’ at the Australian base .....

28 May - News Brief

New Photos Online Now

Some new race photos from Trofeo Alfredo Binda are now in the Gallery.

23 April - Race Results

Ronde van Gelderland - UCI 1.2 (W)

Sara finished 52 seconds down in today's 140km road race in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The race was won by Marianne Vos (DSB Bank) who recovered from an earlier wrong turn which saw her and fellow race leader, Chantal Beltman (T-Mobile) go off course whilst holding a 30 second advantage over the chasing peleton. The win maintained a 100% Dutch record in the fifth women's tour of Gelderland in the Netherlands.

11 March - Race Results

Sara Wins Stage 5 Tour of New Zealand

Current Olympic Road Race champion Sara Carrigan (Australian National Team) was totally surprised to win stage 5 of the Trust House Tour of New Zealand. As the announcer declared she had beaten current Tour leader Judith Arndt (T-Mobile) by .01 of a second, she smiled and said “Wow, I didn’t expect that .” Carrigan covered the 14km course in 17 minutes 30 seconds ahead of Arndt 17 minutes 31 seconds and Susanna Ljungskog, third place in a time of 17 minutes 35 seconds.

Feature Story

Olympic Gold ...... How it was Won

Sara Carrigan brought home the gold for Australia with a win in the women's road race, a 118 kilometre test on the same central Athens parcours used by the men one day prior. Carrigan's win is the second gold medal in the Olympic road race for Australia, following Kathy Watt's victory in 1992.

"It's absolutely awesome to be the gold medal winner. I will treasure this day forever. The race today was a complete team effort by the Australian team."

Product News

Sara inspires Diva bikes ‘made for women’

Teschner, designers of Australia’s most successful racing bike have launched a world-class road bike specially made for women.

Sara Carrigan, gold medallist from the Athens Olympic Road Race, has been the inspiration for the Diva range of racing bikes and she is ecstatic that all women will now be able to buy a bike with a proven racing pedigree designed specifically to fit the female form

Corporate News

with griffith University

Like most athletes, Sara recognises that her sporting career will not go on indefinitely, and in preparation for a bright future, has embarked on a business degree at Griffith University.

She is one of several elite athletes who are taking advantage of a program especially developed by Griffith to support students with major sporting commitments to juggle the demands of training with gaining a degree.

Race Report

Local Knowledge sets up Surfers Win

The elite women tested the course for the very first time at the Surfers Paradise International Criterium. Current Olympic gold medallist Sara Carrigan made a welcome return to racing taking out the women’s race.

Carrigan was a reluctant starter in today’s event (after 7 months off the bike). but showed the classy International field exactly why she is the Home Town Hero.

Product News

Diva debuts at Melbourne Bike Show

Among the new ranges of women's specific bikes at the Bicycling Australia Show 2006 was Teschner Technologies Group's Diva range. The range, not to be confused with Orbea's Diva range, is inspired and endorsed by Australian Olympic Gold Medalist Sara Carrigan, who was on hand for the launch of Diva at this year's exhibition.

Product News

Carrigan Colours

The October worldwide release of the Carrigan inspired ‘Diva’ range of women specific bikes has met with universal approval, not least so because of their unique paint schemes and graphics.

“The bikes not only had to perform at the elite ‘Teschner’ level, but had to look sensational as well” reports Peter Teschner. “We worked closely with Sara to ensure the bikes had stand-out appeal to women riders of all capabilities”.