Carol Lynn Cooke, AM (born 6 August 1961) is a Canadian-born Australian cyclist, swimmer and rower.
A keen swimmer, she was part of the Canadian national swimming team and was hoping to be selected for the 1980 Moscow Olympics before her country boycotted the games.
She moved to Australia in 1994, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and took up rowing in 2006, in which she narrowly missed out on being part of the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.
[2][3] Cooke is a keen swimmer, and was hoping to make the Canadian team for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, but she did not compete because Canada joined the boycott of the games.
[11] In 2006, at the age of 44, she qualified for the Telstra Commonwealth Games Swimming Trials; she reached the finals of the 50m breaststroke multi-disability event.
[11] Her coxed four team missed out on a position at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics by 0.8 seconds in the qualifying World Cup tournament in Munich.
[14] Classified as a T2 cyclist, she is coached by Rebecca Henderson, receives a scholarship from the Victorian Institute of Sport, and is a member of St. Kilda CC.
[17] Cooke successfully defended the titles at the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Greenville, South Carolina.
[34] In 2019 and 2022, Cooke was awarded Cycling Australia's Para Female Road Cyclist of the Year.