Caroline Buchanan is a big deal in Australian biking. A fixture on the podium in BMX and Mountain Biking events across Australia and around the world, Buchanan represented Australia at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics the BMX -- finishing fifth in London and making the semifinals in Rio. 

Tragically, in 2017 she was involved in an off-road car accident, suffered life-threatening injuries and was forced off the bike as she underwent a long and arduous rehabilitation progress. Helped by their one-year delay, she targeted a third Olympics at Tokyo 2020 but, alas, missed out on selection. 

Not one to rest on her laurels, though, Buchanan immediately turned her focus elsewhere and in August became the first-ever woman to perform a front flip on a mountain bike at an Audi Nines event in Germany. 

Having announced on her Instagram in June that she was set to focus full-time on Mountain Biking, the 30-year-old has a jam-packed schedule ahead of her over the next 12-months, a competitive slate she will balance with her work with Ignite -- a mentorship program for young Australian girls all across the action, two-wheel world.

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