Kelly Catlin

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Kelly Catlin Road cycling
Kelly Catlin - World Championship Gold in Team Pursuit (2018)
Kelly Catlin - World Championship Gold
in Team Pursuit (2018)
To person
Date of birth November 3, 1995
date of death March 7, 2019
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Road / train / mountain bike
Most important successes
Olympic games
2016 silver - team pursuit
UCI track world championships
2016, 2017, 2018 World Champion - team pursuit
Last updated: March 10, 2019

Kelly Catlin (born November 3, 1995 in Saint Paul , Minnesota - † March 7, 2019 in Stanford , California ) was an American cyclist . She won a silver medal at the Olympics and was world champion three times.

biography

Family and studies

Kelly Catlin was born a triplet ; she had a brother and a sister. Her brother Colin introduced her to cycling. Until 2018 she studied Chinese and medical technology at the University of Minnesota , completing this bachelor's degree with summa cum laude . She then moved to Stanford University to take up a master's degree in computational and mathematical engineering .

Catlin was a "versatile all-rounder", played the violin, was artistically gifted and was involved in a home for assisted living . She was considered to be extremely determined and ambitious, both in her studies and in sports.

Athletic career

In 2013 Kelly Catlin finished seventh in the individual time trial and ninth in the road race at the World Road Championships in Tuscany . The following year she became national champion in the U23 individual time trial.

At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto , Catlin won the women's individual time trial. In the team pursuit on the track , she won the silver medal together with Jennifer Valente , Sarah Hammer and Lauren Tamayo . In the same year she was with Sarah Hammer, Ruth Winder and Jennifer Valente Pan American champion in the team pursuit, in the single pursuit she won silver.

At the UCI Track World Championships in London in 2016 , the US quartet made up of Catlin, Sarah Hammer, Chloé Dygert and Jennifer Valente won the team pursuit world title. 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 together with Chloe Dygert, Jennifer Valente and Ruth Winder . The following year, Catlin became world champion in the team pursuit for a second time together with Chloe Dygert, Jennifer Valente and Kimberly Geist .

In 2017 the American women's team with Catlin, Dygert, Valente and Kimberly Geist was able to repeat its world championship title in the team pursuit; she herself took bronze in one's pursuit . She was also the Pan American champion in this discipline. The quartet Catlin, Dygert, Valente and Geist also won two races at track cycling world cups in 2017. At the UCI Track World Championships in 2018 , Catlin became world champion in the team pursuit with Dygert, Valente and Geist, in the single pursuit she won bronze again. In the same year she was two-time Pan American champion, in single and team pursuit (with Geist, Valente and Christina Birch ).

death

On February 27, 2019, Catlin reported on the Velo News website about the double burden as a student and top athlete. She has to reconcile three careers - as a student, as a track driver in the national team and as a professional road racing driver - which is very difficult for her. On March 7, 2019, she committed at the age of 23 years suicide .

After Kelly Catlin's death, her sister Christine stated that Catlin fell twice in 2018; once she broke her arm, the second time she suffered a concussion . Since then, she has suffered from headaches, difficulty concentrating and increased light sensitivity and has changed. In the end, she assumed that her health problems would remain in the long term. Catlin tried to commit suicide back in January 2019 and has received medical treatment ever since.

The US cycling association USA Cycling announced that it would set up a foundation in memory of Kelly Catlin; the use of the funds should be discussed with Catlin's family. In April 2019 it was announced that the Kelly Catlin Fund would sponsor the Minnesota Cycling Center to train female cyclists.

The family plans to donate Kelly Catlin's brain to the Veterans Affairs-Boston University-Concussion Legacy Foundation Brain Bank . She also hopes to learn what caused her behavior change.

successes

Street

2015:

  • gold Pan America Game Winner - Individual Time Trial

train

2015:

2016:

2017:

2018:

Teams

Web links

Commons : Kelly Catlin  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kelly Catlin passes away at 23. In: velonews.com. March 10, 2019, accessed on March 10, 2019 . Lt. Cycling News , Catlin died the day before in Stanford , California .
  2. ↑ a b Pat Malach: Kelly Catlin dies at age 23. In: Cycling News. March 10, 2019, accessed March 11, 2019 .
  3. ^ Holden Foreman: Grad student found dead in dorm room. In: The Stanford Daily. March 8, 2019, accessed March 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Cyclist’s father says Stanford could have done more before her suicide. March 28, 2019, accessed April 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b USA's Kelly Catlin, three-time cycling world champion, dies aged 23. In: The Guardian . March 10, 2019, accessed on March 10, 2019 . The information about their subjects varies from source to source. Die Welt states that she studied mathematics at the University of Minnesota , graduated summa cum laude , and then studied medical technology and Chinese at Stanford. See [1]
  6. ↑ Suicide at the age of 23: Track bike world champion Kelly Catlin is dead. In: rtl.de. March 10, 2019, accessed March 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Kelly Catlin. In: teamusa.org. July 22, 2015, accessed July 27, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Kelly Catlin journal: Trying to balance grad school and pro racing. In: velonews.com. February 27, 2019, accessed March 11, 2019 . The World Cup run, in which the US four finished second, was the one in London, not Berlin.
  9. ↑ Track cycling world champion Kelly Catlin (23 †) has died. In: welt.de . March 11, 2019, accessed March 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Cindy Boren: US Olympic cycling medalist Kelly Catlin dies at 23. In: The Washington Post . March 11, 2019, accessed March 11, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Fund set up in memory of Kelly Catlin to support young US female track talent. In: road.cc. April 18, 2019, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Cycling body sets up fund honoring Catlin. In: the-japan-news.com. March 15, 2019, accessed March 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Catlin, Kelly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Paul , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2019
Place of death Stanford , California