"“The right DNA has made Anna a genetic outlier. She packs a world-beating amount of power into her 165cm-tall frame, squatting more than twice her 72kg body weight, but this was far from the case when she and sister Kerrie took up track and road cycle racing in 1994. The nearest cycling club was in Mackay, so the sisters would be driven 300km from Middlemount every Friday to compete. Kerrie often won, but Anna struggled. “I wasn’t talented when I started,” she says. “I was very short, I was skinny – I was just making up the numbers and collecting the competitor ribbons.”"

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Anna Meares’ winning formula | adelaidenow

Lovely profile of the track superstar