Current team Retired Name Leigh Hobson Disciplines Road cycling 2007–2008 Cheerwine Cycling Team Weight 55 kg | 2006 Victory Brewing Height 1.65 m 2000 Charles Schwab Role Olympic athlete | |
Full name Leigh Ann Shawna Hobson Born August 10, 1970 (age 53)
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada ( 1970-08-10 ) 1999 Charles Schwab – Flexiblock | ||
Leigh Shawna Hobson (born August 10, 1970 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional road cyclist. She represented her nation Canada, as a 37-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also placed third in the women's elite category at the Canadian Championships (1996, 2000, and 2006). Hobson also mounted first-place finishes at the Tri-Peak Challenge in 2006, and at the fourth stage of Tour of the Gila in Silver City, New Mexico in 2008.
Hobson qualified for the Canadian squad in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by claiming the bronze medal and receiving one of the nation's three berths from the UCI World Cup. She successfully produced her birthday reward and a best possible result for Canada women's cycling team with a seventeenth-place effort in 3:32:52, finishing behind the host nation's Gao Min by less than an inch stretch.