Megan Jastrab

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Megan Jastrab Road cycling
Megan Jastrab with her gold medal in the Omnium at the 2019 Junior World Championships
Megan Jastrab with her gold medal
in the Omnium at the 2019 Junior World Championships
To person
Date of birth January 29, 2002
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Road / train
To the team
Current team Rally UHC Cycling Women
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships for Juniors
2019 World Champion - road race
UCI Track World Championships for Juniors
2019 World Champion - Omnium, two-man team driving
Last updated: August 30, 2020

Megan Jastrab (born January 29, 2002 in Apple Valley , California ) is an American cyclist who competes on track and road .

Athletic career

Megan Jastrab had already mastered motorcycling at the age of two and started BMX at the age of eight . From 2014 she also raced on the road and on the mountain bike . Her father was a cyclist himself; her older brother is her training partner.

In 2018 Megan Jastrab won the Gent-Wevelgem junior edition , the following year she won the Healthy Aging Tour and the Trofeo Da Moreno in the same age group in spring .

In June 2019, Jastrab became US junior champion in road racing and in the criterion , which was her 20th and 21st national title since 2014. A little later, she won other national junior titles on the track ; in winning the team pursuit , her team set a new US record, six seconds faster than the previous one. In addition, she became elite champion in two-man team driving together with Jennifer Valente, who is eight years her senior . In August she won two gold medals at the Junior World Track Championships in Frankfurt (Oder) , in the Omnium (as the first American junior) and with Zoe Ta-Perez in a two-man team.

A little later, Megan Jastrab wanted to start at the Colorado Classic in the elite women's class; The UCI, the World Cycling Association, refused to grant her the necessary exemption . At the UCI Road World Championships in 2019 , she also won the title of Junior World Champion in road racing.

successes

Street

2018
2019

train

2019

Teams

Web links

Commons : Megan Jastrab  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aliya Traficante, Ella Intern: Faces of the Future: Megan Jastrab, the 15-year-old who's taking on the pros. In: CyclingTips. August 30, 2017, accessed August 25, 2019 .
  2. ^ Tom Mahoney: Two National Records Fall at Track Nationals in Carson. In: USA Cycling. July 4, 2019, accessed August 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jastrab becomes first American to win Junior Omnium world title. In: cyclingnews.com. August 17, 2019, accessed August 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Pat Malach: Jastrab denied entry to Colorado Classic. In: cyclingnews.com. August 21, 2019, accessed on August 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jastrab, Megan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 2002
PLACE OF BIRTH Apple Valley