Jennifer Marie Valente (born December 24, 1994) 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.^[4] She has won multiple gold medals in team pursuit championships and earned an Olympic silver medal in the team pursuit in 2016.

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Jennifer Valente

Valente in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Jennifer Marie Valente
Born	(1994-12-24) December 24, 1994 (age 29) San Diego, California, United States
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1]
Weight	165 lb (75 kg)[1]
Team information
Current team	Virginia's Blue Ridge–TWENTY24
Discipline	Track Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Pursuitist (track)
Amateur team
2014	Twenty16
Professional teams
2013	Exergy Twenty16[2]
2015–	Twenty16 p/b Sho-Air[3]
Medal record Women's track cycling Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Omnium 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team pursuit 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit World Championships 2016 London Team pursuit 2017 Hong Kong Team pursuit 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2020 Berlin Team pursuit 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Omnium 2023 Glasgow Scratch 2023 Glasgow Omnium 2015 Yvelines Individual pursuit 2018 Apeldoorn Points race 2020 Berlin Scratch 2020 Berlin Points race 2019 Pruszków Omnium 2021 Roubaix Scratch 2021 Roubaix Elimination 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Elimination 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Points race 2023 Glasgow Elimination Pan American Games 2019 Lima Omnium 2015 Toronto Team pursuit Pan American Championships 2014 Aguascalientes Team pursuit 2015 Santiago Scratch 2015 Santiago Individual pursuit 2015 Santiago Team pursuit 2017 Couva Omnium 2017 Couva Points race 2017 Couva Scratch 2018 Aguascalientes Omnium 2018 Aguascalientes Points race 2018 Aguascalientes Scratch 2018 Aguascalientes Team pursuit 2019 Cochabamba Omnium 2019 Cochabamba Scratch 2019 Cochabamba Points race 2019 Cochabamba Madison 2019 Cochabamba Team pursuit 2012 Mar del Plata Keirin 2012 Mar del Plata Scratch 2012 Mar del Plata Team pursuit 2014 Aguascalientes Omnium

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She enjoyed a successful junior career, winning 12 national titles and one world junior title.^[5] At the 2011 and 2012 UCI Junior Track World Championships she won three medals, a gold medal in the scratch race and two bronze medals in the keirin.^[6]

In the individual pursuit she won a silver medal at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In the team pursuit she has won three gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and a silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games.

In June 2021, she qualified to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[7] She took the gold medal in the women's omnium, beating reigning World champion Yumi Kajihara of Japan. This was the first women's track cycling gold medal for the United States.^[8]