Keiana Lester

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Keiana Lester Road cycling
Keiana Leister (2016)
Keiana Leister (2016)
To person
Date of birth May 26, 1997
nation Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
discipline Train / street
Most important successes
Pan American Junior Championships
2015 PanAmericanJersey.png - team sprint
Last updated: March 26, 2020

Keiana Lester (born May 26, 1997 in Arima ) is a cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago .

Athletic career

Keiana Leister comes from Arima, where there is an open concrete cycling track . In 2012, at the age of 15, she became a junior champion of Trinidad and Tobago in the individual time trial , thus also winning the title among the elite women. The following year she was national road champion and again time trial champion in 2014. In 2015 she and Kollyn St. George won the gold medal in the team sprint at the Pan-American Junior Championships . The two athletes set a new Pan-American junior record with 34.718 seconds. In 2015 and 2016 Lester became national champion in the keirin . In November 2016, she was the first female cyclist from her country to compete in a track cycling world cup in Apeldoorn .

Because of her successes, Lester and St. George were invited by the Union Cycliste Internationale , the world cycling association, to train for three months at the World Cycling Center in Aigle, Switzerland , in 2017 .

On December 11, 2016, Keiana Lester collided head-on with a car that was driving on the wrong side of the road during a training drive in southern Trinidad. She was taken to the hospital unconscious and was in mortal danger. She was discharged from the hospital in early January, first in a wheelchair and then on crutches. She resumed her training in August and competed in a competition for the first time in March 2018.

successes

2012
  • Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Champion (Juniors and Elite) - Individual Time Trial
2013
  • Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Champion of Trinidad and Tobago - Road Race
2014
  • Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Champion - Individual Time Trial
2015
  • PanAmericanJersey.pngPan American Junior Champion - Team Sprint (with Kollyn St. George )
  • Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Master of Trinidad and Tobago - Keirin
2016
  • Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Champion - Individual Time Trial

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sean Taylor: Team sprint setback for young T&T cyclists. In: trinidadexpress.com. December 11, 2016, archived from the original ; accessed on December 12, 2016 .
  2. ^ Browne at Track Cycling World Cup. In: Trinidad Express. November 4, 2016, archived from the original ; accessed on December 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Alina Doodnath: National cyclist fighting for life after head-on collision. In: Loop. December 11, 2016, accessed December 12, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Six-month layoff. In: trinidadexpress.com. January 6, 2017, archived from the original on January 6, 2017 ; accessed on January 6, 2017 (English).
  5. ^ Lester ready to saddle up again. In: guardian.co.tt. May 25, 2017, archived from the original on May 26, 2017 ; accessed on May 26, 2017 .
  6. ^ Eastmond cops main event at Arima Velodrome. In: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. March 13, 2018, accessed March 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lester, Keiana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Arima