Cyclist Anna Meares Family Of 4 With Husband Nick Flyger – Meet Their Two Children

Anna Meares’s family encouraged her to start cycling. She was born to parents Anthony Meares and Marilyn Meares as the youngest of four children.

In 1994, at age 11, she began competing in the sport after her older sister Kerrie Meares.

The girls had to travel more than two hours from the family’s home in Middlemount, a small coal mining town in Queensland, to the closest cycling track in Mackay.

Meares has described how, throughout her career, she gradually realized that she was serving as a role model and presenting “a different stereotypical image of what it is to be a powerful woman.” 

She was formerly married to Mark Chadwick. Her marriage to her first husband ended in divorce in January 2015. After their divorce, Anna struggled and was considering giving up riding.

After the birth of her first baby, daughter, Evelyn, in February 2020 with her husband Nick Flogger, she felt happier than she had since the divorce.

Anna Meares and Nick Flyger were gifted with a baby daughter Evelyn Bette Meares Flyger, on February 10, 2020.

Their daughter was born at 12:07 am on 10/02/2020 weighing 3.39kg. Anna announced the news on Instagram the next day and listed being a mother as her greatest accomplishment.

In September 2019, Anna and her partner Nick jointly announced that she was pregnant with their first child. Anna Meares and her husband, Nick Flyger, have two children together, daughter Evelyn and son Bill.

Their son, William (Bill) Cossey Meares Flyger, joined their growing family on October 15, 2021. He was 47cm at birth and weighed 3.450kg. Bill weighed heavier than Evelyn by 0.06kg.

Being a mother had been a lifelong dream of hers. And after the divorce from her first husband, Mark Chadwick, she did not believe she would become a mother. Thankfully, she found love again in the arms of Nick and experienced motherhood twice.

“One of my first coaches, Marv [Martin Barras] would always joke that I had my kid’s names already on the doors,” Anna Meares said.

She has also been a foster parent before giving birth to her daughter. Meares has looked after many kids between the ages of four and eight.

Anna Meares married her husband, Nick Flyger, on March 26, 2022. Melissa Alagich took their wedding photos.

Nick Meares, Anna Meares’ husband, works for “Cycling Australia” as a national senior track sprint cycling educator.

Flyger, originally from New Zealand, has been employed by Cycling Australia’s dash utility for the past ten years. He was born in Greymouth and was reared in Nelson. Before moving abroad, he earned his degree at Otago University, where he also taught physical education.

He subsequently began working as a biomechanics expert at the Malaysian National Sports Institute before moving to Canberra to enroll in the Cycling Australia program at the Australian Institute of Sport.

Flyger worked there as a Senior Physiologist for three years before starting to teach the monitor dash software application full-time in 2016.

As a result of Cycling Revised Zealand’s new sprint strategy, Nick joined the organization in February 2022, replacing Rene Wolff, who left following the Olympics in Tokyo.