Katie Compton
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Katie Compton is an American bicycle racer. She specializes in cyclo-cross
racing and piloting a tandem
with a blind partner in Paralympic events.
She has the won the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships
Elite Women's title every year from 2004 to 2009. Since she takes part in Paralympic events she can not enter any bicycle races which award UCI
points. Since she was unable to take part in major races before the National Championship, her win was a surprise to other racers, fans and journalists.
In 2007 she became the first American woman to podium in the Cyclo-cross World Championships (held in the Cyclo-cross capital of the world that year—Belgium) where she won silver between a French
duo composed of Maryline Salvetat
(who took the gold) and Laurence Leboucher
(who won the bronze). In the 2007–2008 season she began racing professionally in UCI races as she no longer had her Paralympic obligations. In the beginning of the season she routinely has won the elite women's races in the US and on November 11, in only her third ever, she won her first World Cup Race in Pijnacker, Netherlands. Compton won by a margin of 54 seconds ahead of race favorite Daphny Van Den Brand who had won the previous World Cup race in Kalmthout.
In Paralympic events she rides a tandem with a blind partner Karissa Whitsell
. Katie, the sighted team member, pilots and pedals the tandem in the captain position while Karissa rides in the rear, stoker, position on their tandem. They were dominant in the 2004 Games, winning medals in every event they entered and setting a world record in the 3 km pursuit event.
Katie has amassed twelve World Cup wins and three medals at the Cyclocross World Championships making Compton the most successful US Cyclocross athlete male or female in the sport.
In Cyclocross World Cup competition Katie has earned nineteen podiums from twenty-one starts.
In 2011, Katie Compton signed a contract with the Rabobank Giant Offroad Team.
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Cyclo-cross
Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. Races typically take place in the autumn and winter , and consists of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and...
racing and piloting a tandem
Tandem bicycle
The tandem bicycle or twin is a form of bicycle designed to be ridden by more than one person. The term tandem refers to the seating arrangement , not the number of riders. A bike with two riders side-by-side is called a sociable.-History:Patents related to tandem bicycles date from the late 19th...
with a blind partner in Paralympic events.
She has the won the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships
USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships
The United States National Cyclo-cross Championships is a four day competition held annually each December and is sponsored by USA Cycling. The winners at various levels, including elite, U-23, masters, juniors, and collegiate for men and women, wear the coveted stars and stripes jersey and are...
Elite Women's title every year from 2004 to 2009. Since she takes part in Paralympic events she can not enter any bicycle races which award UCI
Union Cycliste Internationale
Union Cycliste Internationale is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland....
points. Since she was unable to take part in major races before the National Championship, her win was a surprise to other racers, fans and journalists.
In 2007 she became the first American woman to podium in the Cyclo-cross World Championships (held in the Cyclo-cross capital of the world that year—Belgium) where she won silver between a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
duo composed of Maryline Salvetat
Maryline Salvetat
Maryline Salvetat is a French cyclist born in Castres. She participates in road cycling as well as in cyclo-cross and mountain biking. In 2002, 2004 and 2005 she became French national champion in cyclo-cross...
(who took the gold) and Laurence Leboucher
Laurence Leboucher
Laurence Leboucher is a French professional cross-country mountain bike and cyclo-cross racer. She is a three-time Olympian and two-time world cyclo-cross champion.- Major achievements :...
(who won the bronze). In the 2007–2008 season she began racing professionally in UCI races as she no longer had her Paralympic obligations. In the beginning of the season she routinely has won the elite women's races in the US and on November 11, in only her third ever, she won her first World Cup Race in Pijnacker, Netherlands. Compton won by a margin of 54 seconds ahead of race favorite Daphny Van Den Brand who had won the previous World Cup race in Kalmthout.
In Paralympic events she rides a tandem with a blind partner Karissa Whitsell
Karissa Whitsell
Karissa Whitsell is an accomplished American blind cyclist. Whitsell, with her tandem partner Katie Compton, won four medals at the 2004 ΧΙΙ Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece...
. Katie, the sighted team member, pilots and pedals the tandem in the captain position while Karissa rides in the rear, stoker, position on their tandem. They were dominant in the 2004 Games, winning medals in every event they entered and setting a world record in the 3 km pursuit event.
Katie has amassed twelve World Cup wins and three medals at the Cyclocross World Championships making Compton the most successful US Cyclocross athlete male or female in the sport.
In Cyclocross World Cup competition Katie has earned nineteen podiums from twenty-one starts.
In 2011, Katie Compton signed a contract with the Rabobank Giant Offroad Team.
Major results
2002- IPC World Championships, Altenstadt, Germany (with Karissa WhitsellKarissa WhitsellKarissa Whitsell is an accomplished American blind cyclist. Whitsell, with her tandem partner Katie Compton, won four medals at the 2004 ΧΙΙ Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece...
)- 1st, 3 km pursuit
- 1st, 23 km time trial
- 2nd, kilometer time trial
2003
- IPC European Games, Prague, Czech Republic (with Karissa WhitsellKarissa WhitsellKarissa Whitsell is an accomplished American blind cyclist. Whitsell, with her tandem partner Katie Compton, won four medals at the 2004 ΧΙΙ Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece...
)- 1st, kilometer time trial
- 1st, 14 km time trial
- 2nd, 3 km pursuit
- 2nd, road race
- 3rd, match sprints
- IBSA World Championships, Quebec, Canada (with Karissa WhitsellKarissa WhitsellKarissa Whitsell is an accomplished American blind cyclist. Whitsell, with her tandem partner Katie Compton, won four medals at the 2004 ΧΙΙ Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece...
)- 1st, 3 km pursuit
- 1st, match sprints
- 2nd, kilometer time trial
- 2nd, road race
- US Paralympic National Championships, Colorado Springs, CO (with Karissa WhitsellKarissa WhitsellKarissa Whitsell is an accomplished American blind cyclist. Whitsell, with her tandem partner Katie Compton, won four medals at the 2004 ΧΙΙ Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece...
)- 1st, 3 km pursuit
- 1st, kilometer time trial
- 1st, match sprints
2004
- 1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsUSA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsThe United States National Cyclo-cross Championships is a four day competition held annually each December and is sponsored by USA Cycling. The winners at various levels, including elite, U-23, masters, juniors, and collegiate for men and women, wear the coveted stars and stripes jersey and are...
- 2004 ΧΙΙ Paralympic GamesCycling at the 2004 Summer ParalympicsCycling at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, consisted of 31 events in two disciplines, track cycling and road cycling. Track cycling took place at the Olympic Velodrome, and road cycling at Vouliagmeni.-Classifications and events:...
, Athens, Greece (with Karissa WhitsellKarissa WhitsellKarissa Whitsell is an accomplished American blind cyclist. Whitsell, with her tandem partner Katie Compton, won four medals at the 2004 ΧΙΙ Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece...
)- 1st (Gold Medal), 3 km pursuit (set current world record of 3:36.816)
- 1st (Gold Medal), combined road race and time trial
- 2nd (Silver Medal), kilometer time trial
- 3rd (Bronze Medal), match sprints
2005
- 1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsUSA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsThe United States National Cyclo-cross Championships is a four day competition held annually each December and is sponsored by USA Cycling. The winners at various levels, including elite, U-23, masters, juniors, and collegiate for men and women, wear the coveted stars and stripes jersey and are...
2006
- 1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsUSA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsThe United States National Cyclo-cross Championships is a four day competition held annually each December and is sponsored by USA Cycling. The winners at various levels, including elite, U-23, masters, juniors, and collegiate for men and women, wear the coveted stars and stripes jersey and are...
2007
- 2nd (Silver Medal), UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup #3 - Pijnacker, Netherlands
- 2nd, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup #1 - Kalmthout, Belgium
- 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup #82007–2008 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2007–2008 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition takes place between 21 October 2007 and 20 January 2008 and is sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale . Nine events are organised, a reduction of two from the 2006/07 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup...
- Koksijde, Belgium
- 1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsUSA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsThe United States National Cyclo-cross Championships is a four day competition held annually each December and is sponsored by USA Cycling. The winners at various levels, including elite, U-23, masters, juniors, and collegiate for men and women, wear the coveted stars and stripes jersey and are...
2008
- 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup #42008–2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2008–2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition will take place between 19 October 2008 and 25 January 2009 and is sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale...
- Koksijde, Belgium - 3rd, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup #32009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition took place between 4 October 2009 and 24 January 2010, and was sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:-See also:* 2009–2010 Cyclo-cross Superprestige...
-Pijnacker, Netherlands - 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup #62008–2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2008–2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition will take place between 19 October 2008 and 25 January 2009 and is sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale...
- Nommay, France - 4th, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup #72008–2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2008–2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition will take place between 19 October 2008 and 25 January 2009 and is sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale...
- Heusden-Zolder, Belgium - 1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsUSA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsThe United States National Cyclo-cross Championships is a four day competition held annually each December and is sponsored by USA Cycling. The winners at various levels, including elite, U-23, masters, juniors, and collegiate for men and women, wear the coveted stars and stripes jersey and are...
- 1st, USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships, National Champion - Short Track - Mt.Snow, Vt., USA
2009
- 3rd (Bronze Medal), UCI Cyclo-cross Championships, Hoogerheide, NL
- 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition took place between 4 October 2009 and 24 January 2010, and was sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:-See also:* 2009–2010 Cyclo-cross Superprestige...
-Treviso, Italy - 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition took place between 4 October 2009 and 24 January 2010, and was sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:-See also:* 2009–2010 Cyclo-cross Superprestige...
-Nommay, France - 3rd, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition took place between 4 October 2009 and 24 January 2010, and was sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:-See also:* 2009–2010 Cyclo-cross Superprestige...
-Kalmthout, Belgium - 3rd, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition took place between 4 October 2009 and 24 January 2010, and was sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:-See also:* 2009–2010 Cyclo-cross Superprestige...
-Heusden-Zolder, Belgium - 3rd, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2009–2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition took place between 4 October 2009 and 24 January 2010, and was sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:-See also:* 2009–2010 Cyclo-cross Superprestige...
-Koksijde, Belgium - 1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsUSA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsThe United States National Cyclo-cross Championships is a four day competition held annually each December and is sponsored by USA Cycling. The winners at various levels, including elite, U-23, masters, juniors, and collegiate for men and women, wear the coveted stars and stripes jersey and are...
-2009
2010
- 1st, USA Cycling MTB Shorttrack National Championships
- 1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsUSA Cycling Cyclocross National ChampionshipsThe United States National Cyclo-cross Championships is a four day competition held annually each December and is sponsored by USA Cycling. The winners at various levels, including elite, U-23, masters, juniors, and collegiate for men and women, wear the coveted stars and stripes jersey and are...
-2010 - 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2010–2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2010–2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition will take place between 17 October 2010 and 23 January 2011, sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:...
-Aigle, Switzerland - 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2010–2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2010–2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition will take place between 17 October 2010 and 23 January 2011, sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:...
-Koksijde, Belgium - 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2010–2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2010–2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition will take place between 17 October 2010 and 23 January 2011, sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:...
-Kalmthout, Belgium - 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2010–2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2010–2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition will take place between 17 October 2010 and 23 January 2011, sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:...
-Zolder-Heusden, Belgium - 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2010–2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2010–2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition will take place between 17 October 2010 and 23 January 2011, sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:...
-Hoogerheide, Netherlands - 2nd, 2010-2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships -Sant Wendel, Germany
2011
- 1st, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2011–2012 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2011–2012 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition will take place between 16 October 2011 and 22 January 2012, sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:...
-Plzen, Czech Republic - 3rd, UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup2011–2012 UCI Cyclo-cross World CupThe 2011–2012 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup events and season-long competition will take place between 16 October 2011 and 22 January 2012, sponsored by the Union Cycliste Internationale .-Events:...
-Koksijde, Belgium