Kimberly spirit

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Kimberly spirit Road cycling
Kimberly Geist (2018)
Kimberly Geist (2018)
To person
Nickname Kim
Date of birth April 29, 1987
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
End of career 2019
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2017, 2018 World Champion - Team Pursuit
2015 bronze - points race
Pan American Games
2019 gold - Team Pursuit
Last updated: November 9, 2019

Kimberly "Kim" Geist (born April 29, 1987 in Allentown ) is a former American cyclist.

Athletic career

Kimberly Geist grew up in Emmaus , Pennsylvania , near Trexlertown , where the Valley Preferred Cycling Center is located. Like many other children from the area, she started racing on the local cycle track at an early age . In 2004 and 2005 she won the bronze medal in the single pursuit at the junior track world championships . In 2005 she finished fifth in the road race of the juniors at the road world championships .

In 2007 Geist was involved in a serious accident with a semi-trailer during a training drive on the road : She broke six ribs , several vertebrae , the sacrum and the pelvis ; her lungs partially collapsed. During her recovery, she was temporarily dependent on a walker .

After Kim Geist recovered the following year, she turned her focus to track cycling and in 2008 became a national champion in the singles pursuit. She also completed a degree in nutritional science and founded her own coaching company. In 2011, 2014 and 2016 she won three more national titles. In total, she won 23 national titles in the course of her sporting career.

From 2015, Geist was also internationally successful: In the points run, she won bronze at the UCI Track World Championships in 2015 and silver at the Pan-American championships. At the 2017 Track Cycling World Cup in Los Angeles , she won the team pursuit together with Kelly Catlin , Chloé Dygert and Jennifer Valente . A few weeks later she became world champion in team pursuit with the same drivers in Hong Kong ; In 2018 , the American women's foursome with Valente, Dygert, Catlin and Geist repeated this success.

In November 2019, Kim Geist retired from competitive cycling after 23 years.

successes

Geist (2nd from right) with (from left to right) Kelly Catlin, Chloé Dygert and Jennifer Valente as world champions in the 2018 team pursuit
2004
  • bronze Junior World Championship - Single Pursuit
2005
  • bronze Junior World Championship - Single Pursuit
  • MaillotUSA.PNG American Junior Champion - Scratch, Single Pursuit
2008
  • MaillotUSA.PNG American Champion - Single Pursuit
2011
  • MaillotUSA.PNG American Champion - Scratch
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Web links

Commons : Kimberly Geist  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kirsten Frattini: Geist's bronze medal at Worlds caps eight-year recovery from near-fatal accident. Cyclingnews, February 24, 2015, accessed April 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b American Kim Geist retires from world-class track racing. Cyclingnews, accessed on November 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Guillermo Rojas: USA Cycling National Team rider, Kimberly Geist retires from world-class track racing. USA Cycling, November 7, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Spirit, Kimberly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spirit, Kim (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Allentown