Katie Compton

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updated = September 7, 2008

Katie Compton (born 3 December 1978) 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 2006. 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 compsed by Maryline Salvetat (who took the gold) and Laurence Leboucher (winner of 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 11th, in only her third ever, she won her first World Cup Race in Pijnacker, Netherlands. Compton won by a margin of 54 secs 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.

Major results

;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;2006
* 1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships;2005
* 1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships;2004
* 1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships
*2004 ΧΙΙ Paralympic Games, Athens, Greece (with Karissa Whitsell)
**1st (Gold Medal), 3km 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

;2003
*IPC European Games, Prague, Czech Republic (with Karissa Whitsell)
**1st, kilometer time trial
**1st, 14km time trial
**2nd, 3km pursuit
**2nd, road race
**3rd, match sprints
*IBSA World Championships, Quebec, Canada (with Karissa Whitsell)
**1st, 3km pursuit
**1st, match sprints
**2nd, kilometer time trial
**2nd, road race
*US Paralympic National Championships, Colorado Springs, CO (with Karissa Whitsell)
**1st, 3km pursuit
**1st, kilometer time trial
**1st, match sprints

;2002
*IPC World Championships, Altenstadt, Germany (with Karissa Whitsell)
**1st, 3km pursuit
**1st, 23km time trial
**2nd, kilometer time trial

External links

* [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2005-01-24-compton_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA Jan 2005 Interview on USA Today]
* [http://www.cyclingnews.com/riders/2005/interviews/?id=katie_compton05 2004 Interview on Cycling News.]
* [http://www.mountainbikeracer.com/interviews/in_katie_compton_iron_hill_99.htm 1999 Interview on Mountain Bike Racer]
* [http://www.mountainbikeracer.com/interviews/interviews_2004/compton_katie_cx_champion_2004.shtml 2004 Interview on Mountain Bike Race]