Jennifer Valente

Jennifer Valente

Jennifer Valente (2020) - World Championship gold in the team pursuit
To person
Nickname	Jenn
Date of birth	December 24, 1994
nation	United States
discipline	Train / street
Team (s)
2013	Exergy Twenty16
Most important successes
Olympic games 2016 - team pursuit UCI track world championships 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 - team pursuit Pan American Games 2019 - Omnium
Last updated: June 13, 2019

The world championship four of 2020 (from left to right): Lily Williams, Emma White, Chloé Dygert and Jennifer Valente

Jennifer Valente (born December 24, 1994 in San Diego ) is an American cyclist who is primarily active on the track .

Athletic career

At the age of 14, Jennifer Valente came into contact with track cycling at the San Diego Velodrome while attending an open course there. Since then she has been at least 17 times American champion in various age groups (as of the end of 2015). In 2011 she won the title of world champion in scratch at the junior track world championships .

In 2015, Valente was a three-time Pan American champion, in the single pursuit , in the scratch and in the team pursuit (with Kelly Catlin , Sarah Hammer and Ruth Winder ). Together with Hammer, Catlin and Chloé Dygert , she became world champion in the team pursuit in 2016 . In the same year she was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she won the silver medal in the team pursuit with Catlin, Dygert and Winder. In the same discipline she became world champion the following year at the World Railroad Championships in Hong Kong ; In 2018 , the American women's foursome with Valente, Dygert, Catlin and Kimberly Geist repeated this success.

successes

2011

• Junior World Champion - Scratch
• World Championship (Juniors) - Keirin

2012

• Pan American Cycling Championships - Scratch, Keirin
• World Championship (Juniors) - Keirin
• American Champion - Keirin

2013

• American Champion - Keirin

2014

• Pan American Champion - Team Pursuit (with Kimberly Geist , Elisabeth Newell and Amber Gaffney )

2015

• World Championship - Individual Pursuit
• Pan American Games - Team Pursuit (with Lauren Tamayo , Kelly Catlin and Sarah Hammer )
• Panamerican Champion - Single Pursuit, Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Kelly Catlin , Sarah Hammer and Ruth Winder )
• American Champion - One Pursuit, Omnium, Scratch

2016

• Olympic Games - Team Pursuit (with Kelly Catlin , Chloé Dygert and Ruth Winder )
• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Sarah Hammer , Kelly Catlin and Chloé Dygert )

2017

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Chloé Dygert , Kelly Catlin and Kimberly Geist )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles - Team Pursuit (with Chloé Dygert , Kelly Catlin and Kimberly Geist )
• World Cup in Manchester - Omnium
• Panamerica Champion - Omnium, Scratch, points race
• American champion - Omnium, points race, scratch

2018

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Chloé Dygert , Kelly Catlin and Kimberly Geist )
• World Championship - points race
• Track Cycling World Cup 2017/18 overall ranking - Omnium
• World Cup in Minsk - team pursuit (with Kelly Catlin , Chloé Dygert and Kimberly Geist )
• Panamerica Champion - Omnium, points race, scratch, team pursuit (with Kimberly Geist , Kelly Catlin and Christina Birch )
• Pan American Championship - two-man team driving (with Kimberly Geist )
• American champion - scratch, omnium, points race, two-man team race (with Christina Birch )

2019

• World Championship - Omnium
• American champion - scratch, omnium, points race, two-man team race (with Megan Jastrab )
• Pan American Game Winner - Omnium
• Panamerica Champion - points race, scratch, omnium, two-man team race (with Kendall Ryan )
• World Cup in Minsk - points race, omnium, team pursuit (with Christina Birch , Chloé Dygert and Emma White )
• World Cup in Brisbane - Omnium
• World Cup in Milton - Omnium, Team Pursuit (with Lily Williams , Chloé Dygert and Emma White )
• Track Cycling World Cup 2019/20 - overall ranking Omnium

2020

• World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Chloé Dygert , Lily Williams and Emma White )
• World Championship - Scratch, points race

Web links

Commons : Jennifer Valente  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jennifer Valente in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Jennifer Valente in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Biography of Jennifer Valente ( Memento from April 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )