Jennifer Valente
Jennifer Marie Valente (born December 24, 1994) is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team Twenty20 Pro Cycling.[4]
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| Full name | Jennifer Marie Valente | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 24, 1994 San Diego, California, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 165 lb (75 kg)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Twenty20 Pro Cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Pursuitist (track) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2014 | Twenty16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2013 | Exergy Twenty16[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015– | Twenty16 p/b Sho-Air[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
She enjoyed a successful junior career, winning 12 national titles and one world junior title.[5] At the 2011 and 2012 UCI 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 has won three gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games.
Major results
- 2011
- UCI Junior Track World Championships
- 1st
Scratch - 3rd
Keirin
- 1st
- 2012
- 1st
Keirin, National Track Championships[7] - 3rd Keirin, UCI Junior Track World Championships
- Pan American Track Championships
- 3rd Keirin
- 3rd Scratch
- 3rd
- 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
- 1st Omnium, National Track Championships[8]
- 1st Omnium, Grand Prix of Colorado Spring
- 2015
- 2nd
Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships - Pan American Track Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Scratch
- 1st Team pursuit (with Kelly Catlin, Sarah Hammer and Ruth Winder)
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Scratch
- 1st
- 2nd Team pursuit, Pan American Games (with Kelly Catlin, Sarah Hammer, Lauren Tamayo and Ruth Winder)
- Independence Day Grand Prix
- 2nd Scratch
- 3rd Individual pursuit
- 2016
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2nd Team pursuit, Olympic Games
- 2017
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- Pan American Track Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Points race
- 1st Scratch
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Points race
- 1st Scratch
- 1st
- 1st Omnium, US Sprint GP
- 1st Omnium, Fastest Man on Wheels
- 2017–18 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
- 1st
Omnium, Manchester[9] - 2nd Omnium, Pruszków[10]
- 1st
- 5th Overall Cascade Cycling Classic
- 2018
- UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Points race
- 1st
- Pan American Track Championships
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Points race
- 1st Scratch
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st
- National Track Championships
- 1st Madison
- 1st Omnium
- 1st Points race
- 1st Scratch
- 1st
- 10th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
- 2019
- 3rd Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
References
- "Jennifer Valente". United States Olympic Committee. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
- Jennifer Valente at Cycling Archives
- "Rider Profile: Jennifer Valente". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
- "Sho-Air TWENTY20 Announces 2019 Roster with 4 Canadians". CanadianCyclist.com. Canadian Cyclist. January 16, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- "UCCS student wins silver in cycling". University of Colorado. August 18, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
- "Jennifer Valente". Cycling Archives. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
- "Tamayo adds national title to Olympic silver". cyclingnews.com. October 1, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
- "Valente, Lea set track records en route to omnium titles". USA Cycling. August 13, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
- Daniel Benson (November 12, 2017). "Valente takes 'incredible' World Cup Omnium win". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
- "Australia's Scotson and Meyer take Madison title, Wild claims women's omnium in Pruszkow". cyclingnews.com. November 4, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jennifer Valente. |
- Jennifer Valente at Olympedia
- Jennifer Valente at Cycling Archives
- Jennifer Valente at ProCyclingStats
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