Alice Sharpe
Cycling
BIOGRAPHY
Alice was born in Munich and grew up in Cambridge, but qualifies for Ireland through her father Steve, who lives in Belfast. She competed in triathlon until she switched to cycling while at Manchester Metropolitan University. She joined Cycling Ireland’s elite ranks in 2018 and has been part of the Team Pursuit squad that has knocked almost six seconds off the Irish record since 2021, won European bronze that year, and won silver at the Nations Cup in Hong Kong in March; the result which secured Olympic qualification. She is also a two-time Irish Road Race champion (2019, 2022), and races professionally for a UK team where Mia Griffin is a teammate. Alice and Lara Gillespie just missed the podium in the Madison at the Ghent International at the end of last month.