Anna Henderson

Anna Henderson
	Henderson at the 2021 UCI Road World Championships.
Personal information
Full name	Anna Louise Henderson
Nickname	Hendo
Born	14 November 1998 (age 25); Hemel Hempstead
Height	5 ft 3 in (160 cm)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Team information
Current team	Visma–Lease a Bike
Disciplines	Road Cycling
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time Trial / All Rounder
Amateur teams
2016	Lovelo Cinelli RT
2017–2019	Team OnForm
2019	Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2020	Team Sunweb
2021–	Team Jumbo–Visma
Major wins
	One-day races and Classics National Time Trial Championships (2021, 2024)
Medal record
Women's road bicycle racing
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
Commonwealth Games
World Championships
European Championships

Anna Louise Henderson (born 14 November 1998) is a British professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Tour Team Visma–Lease a Bike.^[2]^[3] She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Life

Henderson was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in 1998 and grew up in Edlesborough in Buckinghamshire. She attended Aylesbury High School.^[4] Growing up, her ambition was to win an Olympic medal in the Winter Olympics. She was a competitive international ski racer, however in 2015, a major crash in the National Championships in Tignes forced Henderson to step back from Skiing and used cycling as a rehab method, she then changed her interest to cycling. She made the decision when she was fifteen. She had broken her leg and cycling was prescribed as helpful to her recovery. As a result, cycling became her focus.^[5] In 2021, Henderson graduated from the University of Birmingham, completing a Sports Science degree.

She rode in the women's road race event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.^[6] In 2018, Henderson won the British National Circuit Race Championships,^[7] and the under-23 British National Time Trial Championships in 2019.^[8]

In 2022, Henderson secured a silver medal in the Time Trial at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where Grace Brown of Australia took the gold medal. This was Henderson's first major medal representing her country.

In September 2023 she was in the Netherlands at the UEC European Road Championships. She was second in the Women's Time Trial^[9] and she was eighth in the Road race. She had come home in the time trial in first position, but Switzerland's Marlen Reusser finished after her with a better time.^[9]

Henderson qualified for the time trial at the 2024 Olympics and she was identified in the British press as a potential medalist. They cited her British titles and her success in gaining a silver at the previous year’s European championships, and fourth place in Glasgow at the world championships.^[5] She took a silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Summer Olympics behind Grace Brown of Australia^[10]^[11] on very wet Parisian roads.^[12]