Kirstie James
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Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 25 May 1989||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | The Meteor / Intelligentsia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Track cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Endurance | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Autoglas Wetteren Cycling Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Velo Classic / Stan's No Tubes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The Meteor / Intelligentsia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kirstie Klingenberg (née James, born 25 May 1989) is a New Zealand track cyclist and former rower.[1] She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's sprint, and Women's team pursuit.[2]
She was a competitor in the women's team pursuit event at the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, where she won a bronze medal. Kirstie competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where she won silver in the team pursuit.[3]
Klingenberg started in rowing but switched to cycling in 2012.[4] She was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2016, and is an ambassador for Endometriosis New Zealand.[5]
Major results[]
- 2015
- Oceania Track Championships, Invercargill, New Zealand
- 1st Team Pursuit (with Holly Edmondston, , Elizabeth Steel and )
- 2nd Omnium
- 2016
- Oceania Track Championships, Cambridge, New Zealand
- 2nd Team Pursuit (with Bryony Botha, and )
- 3rd Individual Pursuit
- 2017
- 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 3rd Team Pursuit (with Racquel Sheath, Rushlee Buchanan, Jaime Nielsen and Michaela Drummond)
- Elmhurst Cycling Classic Criterium, Chicago, IL, USA
- 1st Place
- Track Cycling National Championships, Invercargill, New Zealand
- 1st Scratch Race
- UCI Track Cycling World Cup Milton, Canada
- 2nd Team Pursuit
- Uci Track Cycling World Cup Santiago, Chile
- 1st Team Pursuit
- 2018
- Oceania Cycling Championships, Cambridge, New Zealand
- 1st Team Pursuit (with Racquel Sheath, Bryony Botha, Rushlee Buchanan and Michaela Drummond)
- 1st Individual Pursuit
- 1st Points Race
- 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Apdeldoorn, Netherlands
- 6th Team Pursuit (with Racquel Sheath, Rushlee Buchanan, Bryony Botha and Michaela Drummond)
- 6th Individual Pursuit
- 2018 Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, Australia
- 2nd Team Pursuit (with Bryony Botha, Racquel Sheath and Rushlee Buchanan)
- 5th Individual Pursuit
- 5th Scratch Race 2019
- UCI Track Cycling World Cup Paris, France
- 2nd Team Pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Cup Milton, Canada
- 3rd Team Pursuit
- UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cambridge, New Zealand
- 1st Team Pursuit
- Track Cycling National Championships, Cambridge, New Zealand
- 1st Individual Pursuit
- 1st Scratch Race
- 1st Points Race
- 2nd Team Pursuit
- 2019
- Oceania Cycling Championships, Cambridge, New Zealand
- 1st Team Pursuit (with Jessie Hodges, Nicole Sheilds and Emily Shearman)
- 1st Individual Pursuit
- UCI Track Cycling World Cup Cambridge, New Zealand
- 1st Team Pursuit
- Track Cycling National Championships, Cambridge, New Zealand
- 1st Individual Pursuit
- 2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Pruskow, Poland
- 3rd Team Pursuit (with Holly Edmondston, Rushlee Buchanan, Bryony Botha and Michaela Drummond)
- 4th Individual Pursuit
- 2020
- 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Berlin, Germany
- 6th Team Pursuit (with Holly Edmondston, Rushlee Buchanan, Bryony Botha and Jaime Nielsen)
References[]
- ^ "Kirstie James | New Zealand Olympic Team". New Zealand Olympic Team. 17 February 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ^ "Cycling Track JAMES Kirstie - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". olympics.com. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "More medals for New Zealand cyclists". Radio New Zealand. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- ^ "NZ cyclist Kirstie James grateful to Southland for rowing transition as track cycling nationals come to Invercargill". Stuff. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "'I thought I was crazy': cyclist's painful endo battle". Newsroom. 8 September 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
External links[]
- Kirstie James at Cycling Archives
- Official website
Categories:
- 1989 births
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
- Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Living people
- New Zealand female cyclists
- Cyclists from Auckland
- New Zealand track cyclists
- Olympic cyclists of New Zealand
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics