Lauren Tamayo

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Lauren Tamayo Road cycling
To person
Date of birth October 25, 1983
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
End of career 2016
Most important successes
Olympic Summer Games
2012 silver - team pursuit
Last updated: November 19, 2016

Lauren Tamayo (born October 25, 1983 in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania ) is a former American cyclist who was active on track and road .

Athletic career

Lauren Tamayo grew up in Allentown and began cycling at the age of twelve on the velodrome at the nearby Valley Preferred Cycling Center . But she also competed in races on the road . She later founded the Victory Brewing cycling team with her husband Mike Tamayo , which existed until 2006. In 2014, she moved to the UnitedHealthcare Women's Team , which was managed by her husband.

On the track, Tamayo was mainly successful in team pursuit . She has been on the podium several times with the American team in races of the Track Cycling World Cup . At the UCI Track World Championships 2010 in Ballerup , she finished fourth together with Sarah Hammer and Dotsie Bausch, and in the same year she won the gold medal with the same riders at the Pan-American Cycling Championships in Aguascalientes . The team set a new world record of 3.19.569 minutes, which lasted until April 2012. At the 2012 World Track Championships in Melbourne , the team reached fifth place.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Lauren Tamayo won the silver medal in the team pursuit together with Sarah Hammer and Dotsie Bausch. In 2015 she won the silver medal in the team pursuit at the Pan-American championships together with Kelly Catlin , Sarah Hammer and Jennifer Valente . At the end of the 2016 season, Tamayo ended her active cycling career.

successes

2012
2015

Teams

  • 2008-2009 Tibco To The Top
  • 2013 Exergy Twenty16
  • 2014 UnitedHealthcare Women's Team
  • 2015 UnitedHealthcare Women's Team
  • 2016 UnitedHealthcare Women's Team

Web links

Commons : Lauren Tamayo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kirsten Frattini: Lauren Tamayo signs off 15-year cycling career in the stars-and-stripes. In: Cycling News. April 28, 2016, accessed November 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Tamayo, Lauren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Bethlehem