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Born | Karen Margaret Erikson 12 February 1966 Nelson, New Zealand |
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Discipline | Road and track |
Role | Rider |
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World champion, points race (1990) ![]() |
Karen Margaret Holliday MBE (née Erikson, born 12 February 1966) is a former New Zealand track cyclist.
Biography
[edit]Holliday was born Karen Margaret Erikson in Nelson on 12 February 1966, and was educated at Nelson College for Girls.[1] In 1985, she married Daryl Holliday, and the couple went on to have three children.[1]
Holliday won the world title in the women's points race at the 1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Maebashi, and in doing so became the first New Zealander to win a world cycling title.[2] At the same championship she finished fourth in the road race.[3] Holliday also won the 1990 New Zealand women's road race title.[4]
In the 1991 New Year Honours, Holliday was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to cycling.[5] She was named as New Zealand sportswoman of the year for 1990 at the Halberg Awards.[6]
She was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Taylor, Alister, ed. (2001). New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 2001. Auckland: Alister Taylor Publishers. p. 452. ISSN 1172-9813.
- ^ a b "Postwar comrades relish memory, and new honour". The Evening Post. 27 September 1997. p. 62.
- ^ "Karen Holliday". www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/. New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
- ^ Karen Holliday at Cycling Archives
- ^ "No. 52383". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 1990. p. 30.
- ^ "1990: Halbert Disability Sport Foundation". www.halberg.co.nz/. Halberg Disability Sport Foundation. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
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