Alison Marie Tetrick (born April 4, 1985) is an American

racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing ...

. She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. Tetrick comes from a sporting family – her grandfather, Paul Tetrick, won more than a dozen national time trial titles, whilst her father played

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for

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and subsequently competed in mountain biking. Alison competed as a tennis player whilst at college, becoming an

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n, before she took up elite competition in triathlon as an amateur after graduating. She switched to cycling after attending a

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Talent ID camp in 2008. In November 2015 she was announced as part of the inaugural squad for the team for the 2016 season. In 2017 she won

Unbound Gravel Unbound Gravel, formerly known as the Dirty Kanza, is an event comprising gravel racing covering various distances held annually during the late spring in the Flint Hills region of the Great Plains around Emporia, Kansas, United States. The race ...

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, a race billed as one of the world's top ranked gravel races. She also finished on the podium of the events in 2018 and 2019, even though she had retired as a pro cyclist and no longer rode with a pro team. In 2020, it was cancelled due to COVID-19, but she entered it again in 2021 and placed just outside the top 10. She entered the race again in 2022, but this time she was not targeting a high finish, rather she concentrated on pacing other riders to the finish.

Major results

;2010 : 3rd

Chrono Gatineau Chrono Gatineau is an elite women's professional one-day time trial held in Canada and is currently rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 1.1 race. In the same week, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau Grand Prix cycliste de Gat ...

;2011 : 5th

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;2012 : 2nd

Chrono des Nations Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendée is a single-day individual time trial road bicycle race held annually in October in Les Herbiers, Vendée, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It was orig ...

;2013 : 2nd

;2014 : 2nd

: 3rd

Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

: 5th Chrono Champenois-Trophée Européen ;2015 : 4th Overall

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::1st Stage 3 : 5th Overall Tour Femenino de San Luis ::1st Stage 6 : 5th Overall

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tetrick, Alison 1985 births Living people American female cyclists People from Solvang, California 21st-century American women