Jennifer Valente

Jennifer Valente
Jennifer Valente (2018)
Personal information
Born (1994-12-24) December 24, 1994
San Diego, California, United States
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1]
Weight 165 lb (75 kg)[1]
Team information
Current team TWENTY20 p/b Sho-Air
Discipline Track and road
Role Rider
Professional team(s)
2013–2014 Exergy Twenty16[2]
2017– Sho-Air TWENTY20[3]

Jennifer Valente (born December 24, 1994) is an American professional racing cyclist.[4]

Career

She enjoyed a successful junior career, winning 12 national and one world junior title.[5] At the 2011 and 2012 Junior Track World Championships she won three medals, a gold medal in the scratch race and two bronze medals in the keirin.[6]

In the individual pursuit she won a silver medal at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

In the team pursuit she won two gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Major results

2011
Junior Track World Championships
1st Scratch Race
3rd Keirin
2012
1st Keirin, United States National Track Championships[7]
Junior Track World Championships
3rd Keirin
2013
2nd Team Pursuit, Los Angeles Grand Prix (with Kimberly Geist, Sarah Hammer and Ruth Winder)
2014
Pan American Track Championships
1st Team Pursuit (with Amber Gaffney, Kimberly Geist and Elizabeth Newell)
3rd Omnium
1st Omnium, United States National Track Championships[8]
1st Omnium, Grand Prix of Colorado Spring
2015
Track Cycling World Championships
2nd Individual Pursuit
Pan American Track Championships
1st Individual Pursuit
1st Scratch Race
1st Team Pursuit (with Kelly Catlin, Sarah Hammer and Ruth Winder)
2nd Team Pursuit, Pan American Games (with Kelly Catlin, Sarah Hammer, Lauren Tamayo and Ruth Winder)
Independence Day Grand Prix
2nd Scratch Race
3rd Individual Pursuit
2016
Track Cycling World Championships
1st Women's Team Pursuit
Olympic Games
2nd Women's Team Pursuit
2017
Track Cycling World Championships
1st Women's Team Pursuit
1st Omnium, US Sprint GP
1st Omnium, Fastest Man on Wheels
2nd Omnium, Round 1, (Pruszków) Track Cycling World Cup[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Jennifer Valente". United States Olympic Committee. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ Jennifer Valente at Cycling Archives Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ↑ "Rider Profile: Jennifer Valente". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Jennifer Valente". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ "UCCS student wins silver in cycling". University of Colorado. August 18, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Jennifer Valente". Cycling Archives. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Tamayo adds national title to Olympic silver". cyclingnews.com. October 1, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Valente, Lea set track records en route to omnium titles". USA Cycling. August 13, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Australia's Scotson and Meyer take Madison title, Wild claims women's omnium in Pruszkow". cyclingnews.com. 4 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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