Kristen Faulkner

Kristen Faulkner
	Faulkner as Stage 1 winner of the Giro Donne 2022 in Calgiari, Italy
Personal information
Full name	Kristen Faulkner
Nickname	Faulks
Born	December 18, 1992; Homer, Alaska, United States
Height	5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Team information
Current team	Team Jayco–AlUla
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time trialist
Amateur teams
2017–2018	Dave Jordan Racing
2019	JLVelo
2019	Revolution Racing p/b Jakroo
Professional teams
2020–2021	Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank
2022-	Team BikeExchange–Jayco

Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) is an American professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Team Jayco–AlUla. 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.

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.

She won the Women's road time trial, at the 2023 Pan American Games.