Personal information | |
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Full name | Kristen Faulkner |
Nickname | Faulks |
Born | Homer, Alaska, United States | December 18, 1992
Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) |
Team information | |
Current team | EF Education–Cannondale |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Time trialist |
Amateur teams | |
2017–2018 | Century Road Club Association / Dave Jordan Racing |
2019 | JLVelo |
2019 | Revolution Racing p/b Jakroo |
Professional teams | |
2020–2021 | Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank [1] [2] |
2022–2023 | Team BikeExchange–Jayco |
2024– | EF Education–Cannondale |
Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF Education–Cannondale. [3] [4] Her first year cycling professionally, she was also working full-time as an investment associate at Threshold Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.
Faulkner was born in Homer, Alaska. She was raised in the Alaskan fishing community along with four siblings. [5]
Faulkner graduated from Harvard [6] in 2016 with a B.A in Computer Science, where she competed in varsity rowing. [7] She holds the university's record for fastest 2k indoor rowing time for lightweight women. Before that, she attended Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where she was an honor roll student and varsity runner, swimmer, and rower.
Faulkner started competitive cycling in New York City in 2017. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2018 and joined Team Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank in 2020.
She won the Women's road time trial, at the 2023 Pan American Games. [8]
In October 2023, it was announced that Faulker would join the UCI Women's Continental Team EF Education–Cannondale for the 2024 season. [9]