Background
Ulmer was born in Auckland, where she studied at the Diocesan School for Girls. Her father Gary was a national road and track champion.
Ulmer was born in Auckland, where she studied at the Diocesan School for Girls. Her father Gary was a national road and track champion.
After the 2004 Olympics, she held the Olympic, Commonwealth and World Championship Pursuit titles, and the records for those events. Her grandfather Ron Ulmer was a track cyclist for New Zealand at the 1938 British Empire Games. Individual pursuit races
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics she was seventh after qualifying 6th with 3m 43s.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics she qualified 4th with 3m 36.8s and came 4th after losing the ride off for third by 0.08 of a second.
Ulmer reduced the world record by six seconds. The silver and bronze medalists, Katie Mactier from Australia and Leontien Ziljaard-van Moorsel from the Netherlands, also went under the previous world record (3m 306s) in each of their three rides.
They rode faster with each ride and rode 3m 27.6s and 3m 27.0s respectively in the finals. In May 2010 at Aguascalientes, Mexico at an altitude of 1,870 metres (6,140 ft), American Sarah Hammer broke Ulmer"s world record with a time of 3m 22.269s.
As of September 2014 nine current world cycling records for distances of 4 km or less have been set at Aguascalientes.
The current world championship record of 3m 27.268s was set by fellow New Zealander, Alison Shanks in Melbourne in 2012. Other races
Ulmer did well in points races, winning a junior world championship and placing 3rd and 4th at senior world championships. She placed 2nd and 5th (twice) at Commonwealth Games.
After the 2004 Olympics she switched to road racing.
The Cycling Archives website includes results for her competing in road races in the United States, France, Australia, Belgium and Germany from 1999 to 2006. Other information
She trained at the velodrome in Te Awamutu.
Her home town is Cambridge. She announced her retirement from cycling on 24 November 2007.
She attended the 2008 Olympics as a mentor.
In 2011, she signed up as an "ambassador" for the New Zealand Cycle Trail. Ulmer has two daughters.