Tristan Bangma

Last updated

Tristan Bangma
2024 UCI Road World Championships Zurich Women & Men B Medal Ceremonies 04 (Tristan Bangma).jpg
Bangma at the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships
Personal information
Born (1997-10-06) 6 October 1997 (age 27)
Donkerbroek, Netherlands
Sport
CountryNetherlands
Sport Para-cycling
DisabilityVision impairment
Medal record
Paralympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 1 km time trial B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Individual pursuit B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Paris Individual pursuit B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 Paris Road time trial B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 Paris Road race B
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2020 Tokyo Road race B
Road World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Baie-Comeau Time trial B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Baie-Comeau Road race B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Glasgow Time trial B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Zurich Time trial B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 ZurichRoad race B
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Ronse Time trial B
Track World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Individual pursuit C2
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Glasgow Individual pursuit B
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Rotterdam Time trial B
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 RotterdamRoad race B

Tristan Bangma (born 6 October 1997) is a visually impaired Dutch Paralympic cyclist. He is a gold medalist in cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, the 2020 Summer Paralympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics.

Contents

At the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he won the gold medal in the men's 1 km time trial B with his sighted pilot Teun Mulder. [1] [2] In 2021, he won the gold medal in the men's individual pursuit B at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan with his sighted pilot Patrick Bos. [3] He also won the silver medal in the men's road race B at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. He won the gold medal again in the men's pursuit B at the 2024 Summer Paralympics held in Paris, France with his sighted pilot Patrick Bos.

Career

At the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships held in Montichiari, Italy, Bangma and Teun Mulder won the silver medal in the Sprint Tandem B event and also in the 1 km time trial Tandem B event.

Bangma also won the silver medal in the 109.3 km road race at the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships held in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he won three medals in total: one silver medal and two bronze medals.

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships held in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Bangma and Patrick Bos won the bronze medal in the men's time trial B event. [4]

In 2022, Bangma won two gold medals at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships held in Baie-Comeau, Canada. He also won a silver medal at the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships held in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.

References

  1. ↑ "Tristan Bangma". paralympic.org. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  2. ↑ "Baanwielrenner Bangma wint paralympisch goud op kilometer tijdrit". NU.nl (in Dutch). 11 September 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Berkeley, Geoff (25 August 2021). "Greco breaks world record to win first gold of Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in style". InsideTheGames.biz . Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "Apeldoorn 2019: Sensational Sarah Storey". paralympic.org. 17 March 2019.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.