Jennifer Valente

Jennifer Marie Valente (born December 24, 1994) is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team Sho-Air TWENTY20.[4]

Jennifer Valente
Valente in 2018
Personal information
Full nameJennifer Marie Valente
Born (1994-12-24) December 24, 1994
San Diego, California, United States
Height5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1]
Weight165 lb (75 kg)[1]
Team information
Current teamSho-Air TWENTY20
Discipline
  • Track
  • Road
RoleRider
Rider typePursuitist (track)
Amateur team
2014Twenty16
Professional teams
2013Exergy Twenty16[2]
2015–Twenty16 p/b Sho-Air[3]

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
2012
1st Keirin, National Track Championships[7]
3rd Keirin, UCI Junior Track World Championships
Pan American Track Championships
3rd Keirin
3rd Scratch
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, 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)
National Track Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Omnium
1st Scratch
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
National Track Championships
1st Omnium
1st Points race
1st Scratch
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]
5th Overall Cascade Cycling Classic
2018
UCI Track World Championships
1st Team pursuit
2nd Points race
Pan American Track Championships
1st Omnium
1st Points race
1st Scratch
1st Team pursuit
National Track Championships
1st Madison
1st Omnium
1st Points race
1st Scratch
10th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
2019
3rd Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
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References
  1. "Jennifer Valente". United States Olympic Committee. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  2. Jennifer Valente at Cycling Archives
  3. "Rider Profile: Jennifer Valente". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  4. "Sho-Air TWENTY20 Announces 2019 Roster with 4 Canadians". CanadianCyclist.com. Canadian Cyclist. January 16, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  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. Daniel Benson (November 12, 2017). "Valente takes 'incredible' World Cup Omnium win". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  10. "Australia's Scotson and Meyer take Madison title, Wild claims women's omnium in Pruszkow". cyclingnews.com. November 4, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
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