The 26-year-old returning Olympian grew to become the primary American athlete to qualify in two sports activities for the Paris 2024 Olympics when she gained the 2024 USA Biking Time Trial Nationwide Championships in Could. The victory earned her a visit to Paris, the place she was already scheduled to compete in a triathlon.
She’s now obtained a busy schedule forward, with the Olympic time trial on July 27, the person triathlon on July 31 and the combined relay triathlon on August 5.
This offers her three possibilities to develop her trophy assortment, which already comprises a silver Olympic medal from her half within the triathlon combined workforce relay on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Taylor Knibb and Brandon McNulty gained the 2024 US Nationwide TT Championships
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Whereas nonetheless comparatively unknown within the biking world, Knibb isn’t any stranger to world-class competitors.
A star triathlete, Knibb is a two-time Ironman 70.3 world champion, an Olympic medalist, and a multi-time World Triathlon Championship Collection medalist.
Knibb grew up within the triathlon world. Her mom, Leslie Knibb was an Ironman competitor, and Knibb herself began dabbling in triathlon at an early age and loved a stellar junior and U23 profession. She belongs to a choose membership of feminine triathletes who’ve gained the Junior, U23 and Elite World Championships. In school, Knibb competed in Division 1 degree Observe and Area and swimming for Cornell College. In 2017, on the age of 19, Knibb grew to become the youngest athlete ever to be chosen for the U.S. nationwide triathlon and once more took that honour when she certified for the Olympic workforce at Tokyo 2020.
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Seeking to take her expertise to new arenas, Knibb joined the Trek-Segafredo biking workforce(now Lidl-Trek) in 2023 as a method to ‘take a look at herself on the highest degree {of professional} biking and study all in regards to the methods I can proceed to enhance and develop.’
She made her professional biking debut on the 2023 U.S. Nationwide Street Racing Championships, the place she completed fourth within the particular person time trial behind Chloe Dygert, Lauren Stephens and Amber Neben.
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Since then, Knibb has solely grown in each biking and triathlon. She has spent the final two seasons racking up a collection of wins and podium finishes in each short-course and long-course triathlons. She is very dominant within the bike leg of a triathlon and infrequently out-bikes different formidable skilled feminine triathletes.
She is at present ranked first on this planet within the Skilled Triathlete Group rankings. In Paris, Knibb is favoured to win gold within the girls’s particular person triathlon and play an enormous half in Group USA’s medal candidacy within the combined workforce relay.
On the biking aspect, Knibb was initially additionally scheduled to compete within the Olympic street race. Nonetheless, with a busy schedule as is, Knibb selected to bow out, and Kristen Faulkner was referred to as as much as take Knibb’s place.
Knibb’s first race takes place the morning after the opening ceremonies. Observe alongside as she takes her likelihood to make historical past. See the Olympic biking schedules and streaming providers right here.
