Kate O'Brien (athlete)

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Kate O'Brien Road cycling
To person
Date of birth July 23, 1988
nation CanadaCanada Canada
discipline Train (short term)
Most important successes
Pan American Games
2015 gold - team sprint
2015 silver - Sprint
Pan American Championships
2015 bronze - team sprint
Last updated: September 11, 2019

Kate O'Brien (born July 23, 1988 in Calgary ) is a Canadian bobsleigh and track cyclist .

Kate O'Brien began her athletic career in 2010 as a bobsleigh driver under coach Quin Sekulich. In 2011 she started for the first time in the European Bobsleigh Cup in the two-man bobsleigh as a brakeman for pilot Jenny Ciochetti and in the four-man bobsleigh. After she achieved a good result with her teammates in the four-bobsleigh at the Altenberg World Cup in December 2011 as eleventh, she finally got a permanent place in the national team of coach Tom De-La-Hunty in 2012 . In 2013 she started with Ciochetti at the Bobsleigh World Championship , which she finished 18th, but then fell out due to an injury, so she could not qualify for the Winter Olympics in Sochi . Back to the 2014/15 season, after winning the North American Cup in November, she achieved her first World Cup podium four weeks later in Calgary, finishing third. At the 2015 Bobsleigh World Championships in Winterberg, she narrowly missed a medal in the mixed team competition, finishing fourth.

In parallel to these sporting activities, O'Brien attended a training camp run by the Canadian Cycling Association, Cycling Canada , where she achieved such good results that she was invited to another training session in the Velodrome in Los Angeles . As early as September 2014, at the age of 26, she made her debut as a track cyclist at the Pan American Championships and finished fifth in the Keirin and in the team sprint (with Monique Sullivan ). In the winter season 2014/15 she started in the World Cups and the World Championships in track cycling as well as in bobsleigh.

At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto , Kate O'Brien won two medals, a gold with Sullivan in the team sprint and a silver in the sprint , where she lost to Sullivan in the final. At the UCI Track World Championships 2016 in London , she was sixth in the sprint.

In 2016 O'Brien was nominated for starts in the team sprint, sprint and keirin at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . She finished 14th in the sprint and 13th in the Keirin. In the team sprint she was eighth with Monique Sullivan. The following year, she suffered serious injuries in a training fall at the Calgary Open Air Velodrome.

Success in cycling

2014
2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Olympian Kate O'Brien Seriously Injured on the Track while Training in Calgary. In: Pedal Magazine. July 25, 2017, accessed August 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Brien, Kate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Canada