Anna Morris

Anna Morris
	Morris in 2024
Personal information
Born	13 June 1995 (age 29); Cardiff, Wales
Team information
Disciplines	Track
Major wins
	Track World Championships Team pursuit (2023, 2024) Individual pursuit (2024)
Medal record
Women's track cycling
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships

Anna Morris (born 13 June 1995) is a Welsh track cyclist.

Career

Morris was a latecomer to cycling, only taking up the sport while studying medicine at the University of Southampton.^[1] She had a breakout year in 2022, earning three medals at the British National Track Championships before going on to represent Wales at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.^[2] Morris earned her first global medal when part of the team pursuit squad that took silver at the UCI Track World Championships in October 2022.^[3]

She won two golds at the 2024 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Ballerup, Denmark, taking both the individual^[4]^[5] and team pursuit titles.^[6]^[7]

On February 15, 2025, Morris won the women’s 4000 metre individual pursuit at the European Track Championships, and set a new world record in that event twice that day, by setting a world record time of 4:28.306 in the qualifying ride and then a new world record time of 4:25.874 in the final.^[8]^[9] On February 22, 2025, Morris once again beat her 4000 metre individual pursuit world record, with a new time of 4:24.060, at the national championships.^[10]

Major results

Road

2023: 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

Track

2022

2nd

Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

National Championships

2nd Scratch

2nd Individual pursuit

3rd Points race

2023

1st

Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

1st

Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

2024

UCI World Championships

1st

Individual pursuit

1st

Team pursuit

2nd

Team pursuit, UEC European Championships

3rd

Team pursuit, Olympic Games

References

^ "Anna Morris". Team Wales. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
^ "Cycling Road - Women's Individual Time Trial" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ "Women's Team Pursuit - Final Classification". uci.org. Tissot Timing. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ "GB's Morris wins world individual pursuit title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
^ "Track World Championships 2024: Britain's Anna Morris stuns Chloe Dygert to win individual pursuit gold". Eurosport. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
^ "GB win women's team pursuit gold at World Championships". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
^ "'We came out swinging' - Great Britain make sensational catch to win team pursuit gold at World Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
^ "'I just tried to dig really deep' - Great Britain's Anna Morris sets new 4000 metre individual pursuit world record | Cyclingnews". web.archive.org. 16 February 2025.
^ https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/anna-morris-breaks-world-record-twice-to-claim-individual-pursuit-european-title/ar-AA1z9eMz
^ "Great Britain's Anna Morris sets another world record in women's 4km Individual Pursuit". cyclingnews.com. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.

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[1] "Anna Morris". Team Wales. Retrieved 10 August 2024.

[2] "Cycling Road - Women's Individual Time Trial" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[3] "Women's Team Pursuit - Final Classification". uci.org. Tissot Timing. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[4] "GB's Morris wins world individual pursuit title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 October 2024.

[5] "Track World Championships 2024: Britain's Anna Morris stuns Chloe Dygert to win individual pursuit gold". Eurosport. Retrieved 19 October 2024.

[6] "GB win women's team pursuit gold at World Championships". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 October 2024.

[7] "'We came out swinging' - Great Britain make sensational catch to win team pursuit gold at World Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 18 October 2024.

[8] "'I just tried to dig really deep' - Great Britain's Anna Morris sets new 4000 metre individual pursuit world record | Cyclingnews". web.archive.org. 16 February 2025.

[9] ttps://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/anna-morris-breaks-world-record-twice-to-claim-individual-pursuit-european-title/ar-AA1z9eMz

[10] "Great Britain's Anna Morris sets another world record in women's 4km Individual Pursuit". cyclingnews.com. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.

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v t e UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Women's team pursuit
2000s	2008: Great Britain (Houvenaghel, Romero, Rowsell) 2009: Great Britain (2) (Houvenaghel, Armitstead, Rowsell)
2010s	2010: Australia (Ankudinoff, Kent, Tomic) 2011: Great Britain (3) (Trott, Houvenaghel, King) 2012: Great Britain (4) (Trott, Rowsell, King) 2013: Great Britain (5) (Trott, E Barker, King) 2014: Great Britain (6) (Trott, E Barker, Rowsell, Archibald) 2015: Australia (2) (Edmundson, Ankudinoff, Cure, Hoskins) 2016: United States (Catlin, Dygert, Valente, Hammer) 2017: United States (2) (Catlin, Dygert, Valente, Geist) 2018: United States (3) (Catlin, Dygert, Valente, Geist) 2019: Australia (3) (Edmundson, Ankudinoff, Cure, Baker, Manly)
2020s	2020: United States (4) (Dygert, Valente, White, Williams) 2021: Germany (Brauße, Brennauer, Kröger, Süßemilch) 2022: Italy (Balsamo, Consonni, Fidanza, Guazzini, Alzini) 2023: Great Britain (7) (Archibald, E Barker, Knight, Morris, M Barker) 2024: Great Britain (8) (Archibald, Roberts, Knight, Morris, M Barker)
Riders in italics took part in the qualifying rounds.