Linda Jackson (cyclist)

Linda Jackson (born November 13, 1958, in Nepean, Ontario) is best known as a former Canadian professional bicycle road racer.

The six-time Canadian national champion (three for road race and three for time trials) competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and several Pan American Games and won silver medals the 1994 road race and 1998 time trial at the Commonwealth Games.

Jackson received the maglia arancia (orange jersey) as the best foreigner of that year's Giro d'Italia Femminile.

The following year, Jackson won the 1998 Women's Challenge and repeated her second-place finish at the Giro d'Italia Femminile.

Shortly after announcing her retirement, she began working as a chief financial officer of a San Francisco internet start-up company.