Kristin Armstrong

Kristin Armstrong

Kristin Armstrong (born August 11, 1973 in Boise , Idaho ) is an American cyclist and former triathlete . Her greatest sporting success to date is winning the world championship title in the time trial in 2006 and 2009 as well as the gold medals at the Olympic Games in 2008 , the Olympic Games in 2012 and the Olympic Games in the time trial as well.

She is often confused with the former wife Kristin of the American cyclist Lance Armstrong because of the same name , but is neither related to nor by marriage with him.

Athletic career

Armstrong grew up in a soldier's family in Tennessee , California and Japan ; in her youth she was a successful swimmer. Later she specialized in triathlon and became a professional in this sport. In 2001 she was considered a potential member for the US Olympic team for Athens 2004; when she had to give up running because of a diagnosis of osteoarthritis . Armstrong then specialized in cycling; In 2002 she received her first professional contract with T-Mobile ; her first race in Europe was the women's Tour de France in 2002, the finish of which she reached.

In 2004 Armstrong was American road champion and took part in the road cycling competitions of the Summer Olympics, she was the best American woman in road races. The final international breakthrough came in 2005; in addition to the US time trial championship, which she was able to defend in 2006, she won the gold medal in time trials at the Pan American Games and the bronze medal at the World Road Championships in Madrid ; She also won the Sea Otter Classic tour plus two stages. For the 2006 season she moved from T-Mobile to the US team Lipton . In 2006 she achieved some successes in the fall; in September she won the Euregio Ladies Tour in the Belgian-German-Dutch border triangle and the time trial at the World Championship in Salzburg . In 2009 she won again the title in the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships 2009 in Mendrisio . In 2008 and 2012 she won the gold medal in the Olympic Games in the individual time trial.

After the 2012 Olympics, Armstrong announced her retirement from active cycling. Three years later, in April 2015, she announced her comeback and a start at the Pan-American Championships in the same year. A few days later, however, it turned out that their start is not possible according to the applicable criteria of the American Cycling Association at the Pan-American Championships. The driver can, however, qualify at the national championships for the world championships in Richmond .

Web links

• Kristin Armstrong in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ The other Armstrong: More than a water carrier now ; Article on cyclingnews.com from October 29, 2003
2. ↑ radsport-news.com - Armstrong comeback at Pan American championships. In: radsport-news.com. September 14, 2014, accessed April 15, 2015 . 
3. ↑ But no comeback for Kristin Armstrong at the PanAm championships - cycling at rad-net.de. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed April 24, 2015 .