Sophie Smith (journalist)
Sophie Elizabeth Smith (born 13 December 1986) is an Australian journalist, television reporter and presenter.
Smith specialises in professional road and track cycling and has covered, from location, events including the Tour de France, UCI Road World Championships as well as the UCI Track World Championships for print, television and online.
Smith moved to London, UK in June 2012 to work for IPC Media's Cycling Weekly and Cycle Sport magazines. She made three appearances on BBC World News throughout the London 2012 Olympic Games and in December started working on the Revolution Series, which is broadcast on ITV 4. Smith has also been a guest on talkSPORT, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 live.
Smith previously worked for the Australian national TV network Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and its Cycling Central website and television programme.
Smith has reported live for SBS from 2011 Tour de France champion Cadel Evans's victory homecoming as well as the 2012 national road titles. She anchored the weekly Cycling Central programme during the 2012 Australian summer and presented its red carpet coverage of the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under Legends' Night Dinner. In 2011 she was a co-host on the station's popular Tour de France Sag Wagon podcast alongside Australian TV identity and comedian Sam Pang and Olympian David Culbert.
Smith has freelanced for the Australian quarterly Ride Cycling Review magazine. She contributes to SEN 1116 Sport News and Radio Melbourne and its All Night Appetite show during major cycling meets.
Smith graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and completed her cadetship at the Geelong Advertiser where she started in news but was moved to sport. There she was put in charge of writing and producing a weekly cycling page in the lead-up to the 2010 road world titles after which she joined SBS full-time. Smith was ACTIVE in the paper's multimedia coverage, reporting from events including the Geelong Football Club 150th Anniversary gala in 2009. In 2010 she presented Lance Armstrong with a jersey, designed by the company, at the Tour Down Under in what was an online video report and front news page package.
Smith has been a panellist and MC at major cycling corporate events in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
She competed in the inaugural Omara Witsup.com Celebrity Triathlon, which raised awareness of women in sport and money for Ovarian Cancer Australia, alongside Brodie Harper, Natalie Garonzi, Dani Venn and Lola Berry.
She is as an ambassador for the Liptember Foundation, a registered Australian charity that raises funds for women's mental health services.
Smith moved from Canberra to Melbourne, Victoria in 1999 with her family including parents, one younger sister and two younger brothers. She is listed under Koonung Secondary College notable alumni and was part of its High Achievers Program and Class of 2004 School Captain.
She had an early interest in acting and appeared in various national television commercials as a teenager but focused on studies in her senior high school year.