Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Cristian David Ortega Fontalvo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Cris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Barranquilla, Colombia | 29 September 2000|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | Team Colombia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Sprinter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Cristian David Ortega Fontalvo (born 29 September 2000) is a Colombian track cyclist, who specializes in sprinting events. [1] He competed in the 2022 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. [2]
Martin Wayne Nothstein is an American former professional road bicycle racer and track cyclist. He is a three-time world champion in track events and an Olympic gold and silver medalist. Nothstein also servied as a Lehigh County Commissioner and ran unsuccessfully as the Republican Party nominee for the 2018 United States House of Representatives election in Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district and 2018 Pennsylvania's 7th and 15th congressional district special elections.
Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez is a Cuban racing cyclist.
Kaarle McCulloch is an Australian former professional track cyclist and four time World Champion in the team sprint. She also won three golds at the Commonwealth Games and an Olympic bronze medal. She qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and rode in two events, the Women's Keirin where she came ninth, and the Women's Sprint where she came thirteenth.
Yumari González Valdivieso is a Cuban professional road and track cyclist. She competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race.
Sam Webster is a former New Zealand track cyclist. He was the sprint, keirin and team sprint World Champion at the 2009 Junior World Championships and New Zealand national track cycling champion. He won gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the individual sprint and the team sprint.
Denis Sergeyevich Dmitriev is a Russian track cyclist. Specialising in the sprint events, Dmitriev's best result in international sports was winning a gold medal at the 2017 World Championships in Hong Kong. At the 2016 Summer Olympics he succeeded to the bronze medal race in sprint, winning the medal. Dmitriev is a four-time European Champion at senior level in the Sprint event for men, and the most successful sprint cyclist in the competitions's history.
Njisane Nicholas Phillip is a former Trinidadian track cyclist active from 2010 until 2019. Born in Siparia, he competed for Trinidad and Tobago at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he achieved a fourth place finish in the individual sprint, as well as at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. and at several Pan American Games and Championships. In the latter, he was the 2012 Pan American Championships sprint champion.
Monique Sullivan is a Canadian cyclist. She was born in Calgary, Alberta. She competed in keirin at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she placed sixth. She also competed in women's sprint and placed 11th.
Fabian Hernando Puerta Zapata is a Colombian track cyclist. He competed in keirin at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and in keirin at the 2011 Pan American Games where he won a gold medal. He is married to fellow track cyclist Juliana Gaviria, and is brother in law to former track World Champion and Giro D'Italia points classification winner Fernando Gaviria.
Daniela Grelui Larreal Chirinos is a Venezuelan track cyclist. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's team sprint for the national team as well as the women's individual sprint and the keirin.
Juliana Gaviria Rendon is a Colombian track cyclist, born in La Ceja. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's team sprint, women's keirin, and Women's sprint. She also competed in the women's sprint at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is the elder sister of track and road cyclist Fernando Gaviria. She is married to fellow track cyclist Fabián Puerta.
Kian Emadi-Coffin is a former British track cyclist. He has represented Great Britain and England at international level, and is a three-time British National Track champion. Originally a sprinter, he transferred following injury to the endurance squad, and in 2018 won a gold medal as part of the team pursuit squad for Great Britain at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Jennifer Marie Valente is an American professional racing cyclist who is the gold medal winner of the women's omnium at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Valente has ridden for UCI Women's Team Virginia's Blue Ridge–TWENTY24. She has won multiple gold medals in team pursuit championships and earned an Olympic silver medal in the team pursuit in 2016.
Mandy Marquardt is an American female Sprint track cyclist, representing the United States and Team Novo Nordisk, the world's first-all diabetes professional cycling team. Marquardt was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 16. Marquardt is an 27-time U.S National Champion, 4-time U.S National Record Holder in the Standing 500m Time Trial, Standing 1km Time Trial, Team Sprint (2-rider) and Team Sprint (3-rider).
Nicholas Paul is a Trinidadian track cyclist, who specializes in sprinting events.
Kevin Santiago Quintero Chavarro is a Colombian track cyclist, who specializes in sprinting events. He has won numerous medals in continental games and championships, as well as competed at the 2018, 2019 and 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He most notably won the Keirin at the 2023 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Callum Saunders is a New Zealand track cyclist, who competes in sprinting events. He competed in the team sprint for the 7th/8th place final at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He is considered to be a pioneer of the shaved head, or "dome" haircut, in pursuit of improved aerodynamics. Studies into the aerodynamic gain of this style are ongoing.
James (Jamie) Alvord III is an American male sprint track cyclist, representing Edge Cycling Team. Alvord is a 10-time American National Champion. He is the reigning American National Champion in sprint, Time Trial and Team sprint.
Dylan Bibic is a Canadian professional road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Israel Premier Tech Academy. He notably won the scratch race at the 2022 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, the first Canadian to win gold in the event, in his world championship debut. He had previously won the men's points race at the UCI Junior Track World Championships.
The following is the qualification system and qualified countries for the cycling at the 2023 Pan American Games competition in Santiago, Chile.