Clara Brown (cyclist)
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Nickname | Brownie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Para cycling | November 3, 1995||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | C3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Track cycling Road cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Noah Middlestaedt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Clara Brown (born November 3, 1995) is an American
Sporting career
Early beginnings
Brown was a very active young person: she was a competitive
Discovery of para sport
She has mild
Brown bought her first modified road bike when she attended first year at
Her first international competition was an invitation by her then-coach to participate in the Para-cycling World Cup in 2018 at Baie-Comeau in Canada where she was third in the road race and fourth in the time trial. She went to the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Emmen, Netherlands and won two of her first medals in the competition: two bronze medals then in September, she went to represent the United States at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru where she won two gold medals and two silver medals in both road and track cycling events.[5]
On April 17, 2021, Brown won the U.S. Paralympics Cycling Open for C3 15 km time trial in Huntsville, Alabama, qualifying her for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (delayed until 2021 because of Covid-19).[6]
References
- ^ "Clara Brown – Team USA". United States Olympic Committee. May 26, 2020.[dead link]
- ^ "Sideline Stories: Clara Brown". Maine Sports Commission. March 17, 2020.
- ^ Price, Karen (December 6, 2018). "Fate Leads Former Competitive Gymnast Clara Brown Down Para-cycling Path". teamusa.org/News/2018/December/06/Fate-Leads-Former-Competitive-Gymnast-Clara-Brown-Down-Para-cycling-Path. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020.
- ^ "After a Gymnastics Accident Left Her Paralyzed, Clara Brown Found Solace in Cycling". Bicycling. January 7, 2019.
- ^ "Bicycle opens new avenues – and much more – to para-cyclist Clara Brown". Bicycle Colorado. February 6, 2019. Archived from the original on September 26, 2020.
- ^ "US Para Cycling. Power couple". Team USA. Archived from the original on May 10, 2021.
External links
- Clara Brown on Instagram
- Clara Brown at Team USA (archived)