Kristen Faulkner
Faulkner as Stage 1 winner of the Giro Donne 2022 in Calgiari, Italy
Personal information
Full nameKristen Faulkner
NicknameFaulks
Born (1992-12-18) December 18, 1992
Homer, Alaska, United States
Height5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Team information
Current teamTeam Jayco–AlUla
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeTime trialist
Amateur teams
2017–2018Dave Jordan Racing
2019JLVelo
2019Revolution Racing p/b Jakroo
Professional teams
2020–2021Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank[1][2]
2022-Team BikeExchange–Jayco

Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Team Jayco–AlUla.[3] 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.

Biography

Faulkner was born in Homer, Alaska. She was raised in the Alaskan fishing community along with four siblings.[4]

Faulkner graduated from Harvard[5] in 2016 with a B.A in Computer Science, where she competed in varsity rowing.[6] 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.

She won the Women's road time trial, at the 2023 Pan American Games.[7]

Major results

2020
1st Super Sweetwater, Grasshopper Adventure Series race[8]
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

References

  1. ↑ "Rider spotlight: Meet Kristen Faulkner". Team Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank. May 19, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ "TIBCO-SVB renew contracts with core virtual Tour de France team". Cyclingnews.com. August 27, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Team Tibco - Silicon Valley Bank". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on January 27, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
  4. ↑ Biz, Carson (July 31, 2020). "Meet the VC who raced this year's (virtual) Tour de France". Protocol. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Kristen Faulkner | Road Cyclist".
  6. ↑ Sayers, Michael (March 27, 2020). "The Kristen Faulkner Interview". Interviews from the Gruppetto. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  7. ↑ Kirsten Frattini (October 23, 2023). "Faulkner, Vargas win time trial titles at Pan American Games". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
  8. ↑ Delany, Ben (March 1, 2020). "Stetina, Faulkner win Super Sweetwater Grasshopper Adventure Series race". VeloNews. Retrieved October 1, 2020.


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