Kristin Armstrong
Winning the 2012 Olympics time trial
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| Full name | Kristin Armstrong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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August 11, 1973 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 128 lb (58 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Exergy TWENTY12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2001–2005 | T-Mobile Women | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Team Lipton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Cervélo–Lifeforce Pro Cycling Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Peanut Butter & Co. Team TWENTY12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Exergy TWENTY12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015– | Twenty16 presented by Sho-Air | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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One-day races
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Medal record
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Kristin Armstrong (born August 11, 1973) is a professional road bicycle racer and three-time Olympic gold medalist, the winner of the women's individual time trial in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Before temporarily retiring to start a family in 2009, she rode for Cervélo TestTeam in women's elite professional events on the National Racing Calendar (NRC) and UCI Women's World Cup. She announced a return to competitive cycling beginning in the 2011 season, competing for Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12 at the Redlands Classic.
Prior to her professional cycling career, Armstrong had been a junior Olympian in swimming, a distance runner in college, and then became a triathlete. She spent many hours perfecting her strokes in the pool at the Boise Family YMCA, where she also served as Director of Aquatics, managing more than 50 lifeguards, swim instructors, and others. She was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in both hips in 2001 at age 27, and told that she could no longer run at an elite level, thus ending her triathlon career and leading her to focus exclusively on cycling.
The three-time national champion finished 8th (top U.S. finisher) in the women's road race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in China, Armstrong completed the biggest achievement of her career by winning the gold medal in the women's road time trial competition on August 13. Finishing in under 35 minutes, Armstrong was 25 seconds ahead of silver medalist Emma Pooley from Great Britain, with Karin Thürig from Switzerland taking the bronze.
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