Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) is an American professional

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, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . Her first year cycling professionally, she was also working full-time as an investment associate at Threshold Ventures, an early stage

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Biography

Faulkner was born in

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. She was raised in the Alaskan fishing community along with four siblings. Faulkner graduated from Harvard in 2016 with a B.A in

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, where she competed in varsity rowing. She holds the university's record for fastest 2k

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time for lightweight women. Before that, she attended Phillips Academy in

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, where she was an honor roll student and varsity runner, swimmer, and rower. Faulkner started competitive cycling in

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in 2017. She moved to the

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in 2018 and joined Team Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank in 2020. She won the Women's road time trial, at the

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Major results

;2020 : 1st Super Sweetwater, Grasshopper Adventure Series race : 1st Stage 4

Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in the Ardèche region in southeastern France. The race was rated by the UCI as a 2.2 race, until 2018 when it was promoted to 2.1 status. Fo ...

;2021 : 3rd Overall

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::1st Stage 1 : 3rd GP de Plouay : 7th

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: 10th

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;2022 :

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::1st

Mountains classification ::1st Prologue ( ITT) & Stage 9 : 2nd Overall

Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse ( en, Tour of Switzerland) is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France ...

::1st Stage 2 ( ITT) : 3rd Overall Itzulia Women : 3rd Navarra Elite Classics : 4th

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* * * * Living people 1992 births American female cyclists People from Homer, Alaska Harvard Crimson women's rowers Cyclists at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in cycling 21st-century American women 21st-century American people {{US-cycling-bio-stub