Kirsti Lay

Kirsti Lay
	Lay in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Kirsti Lay
Born	7 April 1988[1]; Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road; Track;
Role	Rider
Amateur team
2014–2015	SAS–Mazda–Macogep
Professional team
2016–2019	Rally Cycling[2]
Representing Canada
Women's track cycling
Olympic Games
World Championships
Pan American Games
Pan American Championships

Kirsti Lay (born 7 April 1988) is a Canadian former professional racing cyclist,[3] who rode professionally for UCI Women's Team Rally UHC Cycling between 2016 and 2019. She rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships,[4] winning a bronze medal in the Team Pursuit.[5] In 2016, she was named in Canada's 2016 Olympic team.[6] She won the bronze medal in the team pursuit event.

Prior to taking up cycling Lay was a speed skater, competing at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007[7] and at the 2009 Winter Universiade.[8]

Personal life

Lay is married to Canadian former speed skater Mathieu Giroux.[3]

2015: 1st Team pursuit, Pan American Games (with Allison Beveridge, Laura Brown and Jasmin Glaesser); 2nd Team pursuit, Pan American Track Championships (with Allison Beveridge, Annie Foreman-Mackey and Stephanie Roorda); 3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
2016: 2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships; 3rd Team pursuit, Olympic Games
2017: 1st Stage 1 Cascade Cycling Classic[9]; 2nd Road race, National Road Championships[10]
2018: 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

Kirsti Lay at Cycling Archives
Soladay, Tom. "2019 men's and women's rosters". Rally UHC Cycling. Circuit Sport. Archived from the original on 22 January 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
"Olympic medallist Kirsti Lay announces retirement from track cycling". Airdrie City View. Great West Newspapers. The Canadian Press. 16 September 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
"Entry List: Women" (PDF). UCI. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
Final Results
Tozer, Jamie (29 June 2016). "Returning Olympians highlight Canada's cycling team". www.olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
"Kirsti Lay". Speed Skating Canada. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
"CAN Announces Long Track Speed Skating Team". Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire. 15 February 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
"Cascade Cycling Classic: Lay wins stage 1 McKenzie Pass Road Race". cyclingnews.com. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
"Beveridge Wins Canadian Road Title". Cycling Canada Cyclisme. 25 June 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.

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