Kristen Faulkner

Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team. She is the current USA National Road Race Champion.

Biography
Faulkner was born in Homer, Alaska. She was raised in the Alaskan fishing community along with four siblings.

Faulkner graduated from Harvard in 2016 with a B.A in Computer Science, where she competed in varsity rowing. She holds the university's record for fastest 2k indoor rowing time for lightweight women. Before that, she attended Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where she was an honor roll student and varsity runner, swimmer, and rower.

Faulkner started competitive cycling in New York City in 2017. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2018 and joined Team Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank in 2020. During her first year cycling professionally, she was also working full-time as an investment associate at Threshold Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.

She won the Women's road time trial, at the 2023 Pan American Games. In October 2023, it was announced that Faulker would join the UCI Women's Continental Team for the 2024 season.

Faulkner posted a strong start to the 2024 season with her new team. She took victories at Omloop van het Hageland and Stage 4 of La Vuelta Feminina. In May, Faulkner won the Road Race and finished 2nd in the Time Trial at the United States National Road Race Championships.

In light of this decision, 2024 USA Cycling Road Race National Champion Kristen Faulkner (Homer, Alaska; EF-Oatly-Cannondale) Faulkner has been selected to join Dygert in the Road Race. Faulkner has quickly risen to the top of the international ranks in women’s road cycling, winning three Grand Tour stages over the past two years. In addition to the Road Race on August 4, Dygert and Faulkner will compete in the Women’s Team Pursuit, with qualifying starting on August 6.

Major results

 * 2020
 * 1st Super Sweetwater, Grasshopper Adventure Series race
 * 1st Stage 4 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche


 * 2021
 * 3rd Overall Tour of Norway
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 3rd GP de Plouay
 * 7th Gent–Wevelgem
 * 10th Tour of Flanders


 * 2022
 * Giro Donne
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Mountains Classification
 * 1st Prologue (ITT) & Stage 9
 * 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
 * 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
 * 3rd Overall Itzulia Women
 * 3rd Navarra Elite Classics
 * 4th Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa


 * 2024
 * La Vuelta Feminina
 * 1st Stage 4
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotUSA.PNG Road Race
 * 2nd Time Trial
 * 1st Omloop van het Hageland
 * 2nd Overall Trofeo Ponente in Rosa
 * 1st Points Classification
 * 1st Mountains Classification
 * 1st Stages 2 & 3
 * 6th Strade Bianche Donne