Giddeon Massie
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| Full name | Giddeon Massie | |||||||||||||||
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27 August 1981 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 95 kg (209 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||
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| 2007–2008 | SPIKE | |||||||||||||||
| 2009– | Bike Religion | |||||||||||||||
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Giddeon Massie (born August 27, 1981 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is an American professional track cyclist. He collected two medals (silver and bronze) each in men's Keirin and sprint at the 2003 Pan American Games, and later represented the United States in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008). Massie has been considered one of the best American track sprinters on the domestic and international circuits, having awarded a conglomerate of twenty U.S. championship titles since his sporting debut in 2001. At the peak of his career, Massie currently races for the Bike Religion pro cycling team, and works as a resident athlete for the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Mike and Robin Massie, Massie had been playing baseball and basketball throughout his early childhood. He discovered cycling as a ten-year-old upon entering the Air Products Development Program, a free sporting institution in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania that highly fostered people of all ages to take up track cycling. Since then, he finished his junior career fifth in the world, and earned two U.S. national titles, and top finishes at the UCI World Cup series. Off the sport, Massie also attended the Faith Christian Academy in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, where he enrolled on a music scholarship from the U.S. National Band Association for his talent in clarinet, an instrument that had been inherited by his father.
In 2003, Massie moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he trained and worked as a resident athlete for the U.S. Olympic Training Center and has been continuously lived until the present. On that same year, Massie also claimed the gold medal in men's Keirin and silver in men's sprint when he competed for the first time on the international scene at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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