Kristen Faulkner
Personal information | |
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Full name | Kristen Faulkner |
Nickname | Faulks |
Born | Homer, Alaska, United States | December 18, 1992
Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) |
Team information | |
Current team | EF Education–Cannondale |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Time trialist |
Amateur teams | |
2017–2018 | Century Road Club Association / Dave Jordan Racing |
2019 | JLVelo |
2019 | Revolution Racing p/b Jakroo |
Professional teams | |
2020–2021 | Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank[1][2] |
2022–2023 | Team BikeExchange–Jayco |
2024– | EF Education–Cannondale |
Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF Education–Cannondale.[3][4] She is the current USA National Road Race Champion.[5]
Biography[edit]
Faulkner was born in Homer, Alaska. She was raised in the Alaskan fishing community along with four siblings.[6]
Faulkner graduated from Harvard[7] in 2016 with a B.A in Computer Science, where she competed in varsity rowing.[8] She holds the university's record for fastest 2k indoor rowing time for lightweight women. Before that, she attended Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where she was an honor roll student and varsity runner, swimmer, and rower.
Faulkner started competitive cycling in New York City in 2017. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2018 and joined Team Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank in 2020. During her first year cycling professionally, she was also working full-time as an investment associate at Threshold Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.
She won the Women's road time trial, at the 2023 Pan American Games.[9] In October 2023, it was announced that Faulker would join the UCI Women's Continental Team EF Education–Cannondale for the 2024 season.[10]
Faulkner posted a strong start to the 2024 season with her new team. She took victories at Omloop van het Hageland and Stage 4 of La Vuelta Feminina. In May, Faulkner won the Road Race and finished 2nd in the Time Trial at the United States National Road Race Championships.
Major results[edit]
- 2020
- 1st Super Sweetwater, Grasshopper Adventure Series race[11]
- 1st Stage 4 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 2021
- 3rd Overall Tour of Norway
- 1st Stage 1
- 3rd GP de Plouay
- 7th Gent–Wevelgem
- 10th Tour of Flanders
- 2022
- Giro Donne
- 1st Mountains Classification
- 1st Prologue (ITT) & Stage 9
- 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 3rd Overall Itzulia Women
- 3rd Navarra Elite Classics
- 4th Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa
- 2024
- La Vuelta Feminina
- 1st Stage 4
- National Championships
- 1st Road Race
- 2nd Time Trial
- 1st Omloop van het Hageland
- 2nd Overall Trofeo Ponente in Rosa
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st Mountains Classification
- 1st Stages 2 & 3
- 6th Strade Bianche Donne
References[edit]
- ^ "Rider spotlight: Meet Kristen Faulkner". Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank. May 19, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- ^ "TIBCO-SVB renew contracts with core virtual Tour de France team". Cyclingnews.com. August 27, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- ^ "EF Education - Cannondale". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ "Kristen Faulkner". efprocycling.com. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
- ^ "2024 US Professional Road Race Championship - Sunday". my.raceresult.com. Retrieved May 25, 2024.
- ^ Biz, Carson (July 31, 2020). "Meet the VC who raced this year's (virtual) Tour de France". Protocol. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- ^ "Kristen Faulkner | Road Cyclist".
- ^ Sayers, Michael (March 27, 2020). "The Kristen Faulkner Interview". Interviews from the Gruppetto. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- ^ Kirsten Frattini (October 23, 2023). "Faulkner, Vargas win time trial titles at Pan American Games". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
- ^ "Kristen Faulkner signs for EF Education-Cannondale as American team's latest big-name transfer".
- ^ Delany, Ben (March 1, 2020). "Stetina, Faulkner win Super Sweetwater Grasshopper Adventure Series race". VeloNews. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Kristen Faulkner at Cycling Archives
- Kristen Faulkner at CQ Ranking
- Kristen Faulkner at ProCyclingStats
- Living people
- 1992 births
- American female cyclists
- People from Homer, Alaska
- Harvard Crimson women's rowers
- Cyclists at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in cycling
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- American cycling biography stubs