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Full name | Jennie Reed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Kirkland, Washington, United States |
April 20, 1978 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jennie Reed (born April 20, 1978) is a World and U.S. champion track cyclist and Olympian (2004, 2008, 2012). Reed won her first national titles in 1994 at the U.S. Junior Track National Championships held at the Marymoor Velodrome near Seattle, Washington where she won both the 2 km pursuit and the matched sprints. The following year, she repeated as pursuits champion at the U.S. Junior Nationals. She won her first national title as a senior level racer at the 1998 U.S. National Track Championships and would later, in 2002, earn a second national title in the keirin. At the U.S. Track Championships in 2006, Reed won 3 more national titles - in the sprints, the 500 meter time trial, and the keirin. In 2008, she won her first world championship in the keirin. In the 2012 Olympics in London, Reed earned a silver medal in the team pursuit.