ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Just two days after a triumphant gold medal in road cycling, Homer’s Kristen Faulkner is in position to win another.
Faulkner and Team USA topped Great Britain in the Team Pursuit semifinals Wednesday at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to advance to the finals against New Zealand, set to begin at 9:28 a.m. Wednesday.
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Team USA on Tuesday advanced to the medal round with three others — New Zealand, Great Britain and Italy — after posting the second-fastest qualifying time.
The Americans set a national record along the way: Faulkner, Jennifer Valente, Chloé Dygert, and Lily Williams completed the 4-kilometer event in 4 minutes, 5.238 seconds, less than a second behind New Zealand (4:04.679).
Faulkner was originally selected to represent the U.S. in Team Pursuit only, before being subbed in as a replacement in the road cycling event, which is her more experienced discipline.
The Homer cyclist came through in grand fashion Sunday, claiming a shocking gold medal for Team USA.
She told Alaska’s News Source last month she began track cycling in 2019 and competed in her first race just earlier this year.
“The trajectory has been really fast and the learning curve has been really steep and so to go from kind of a beginner level almost a year ago to making the Olympic team is really special,” Faulkner said.
Team USA has never finished off the podium in this event at the Olympics, earning silvers in 2012 and 2016, respectively, and bronze in 2020.
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