Susy Pryde

Susy Pryde
Personal information
Full nameSusannah Kate Pryde
Born (1973-10-15) 15 October 1973
Waipukurau, New Zealand
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineCross country
road racing
RoleRider
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Women's cycling
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1998 Kuala Lumpur Road Race
Silver medal – second place 2002 Manchester Cross Country

Susannah Kate Pryde (born 15 October 1973 in Waipukurau, New Zealand) is a New Zealand cyclist, who won a silver medal for New Zealand at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in the women's road race. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she again won a silver medal in the cross country discipline.[1][2]

Pryde also competed for New Zealand in both the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics.[3]

She rode the world road race championship four times finishing 16th in 1997 and 1999. She won the New Zealand National Road Race Championships in 1998.[4] In 1998, she won Berkeley Hills Road Race, a USA Cycling sanctioned event in Northern California and the oldest continuously running bicycle road race in the United States.[5]

Since retiring from cycling around 2003, she has continued some cycling coaching/mentoring work, including working with students at the high-school level.[6]

References

  1. ^ Profile at www.Sports-Reference.com
  2. ^ Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
  3. ^ Rattue, Chris (11 September 2000). "Kiwi Olympians: Susy Pryde, cycling". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
  4. ^ "procyclingstats".
  5. ^ Kennedy, Gregory (29 April 2023). "The Berkeley Hills Road Race: Where American cycling legends are born". KaiVelo. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  6. ^ "Former medallist Susy Pryde still splitting time". www.stuff.co.nz. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
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