Katie Compton
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Katie Compton (born 3 December 1978) is a bicycle racer. She specializes in cyclo-cross racing and piloting a tandem with a blind partner in Paralympic events.
She has twice won the US National Women's Cyclo-cross title in 2004 and 2005. 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 Paralympic events she rides a tandem with a blind parnter 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 dominate in the 2004 Games, winning medals in every event they entered and setting a world record in the 3 km pursuit event.
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[edit] Major results
[edit] 2005
- US National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st Elite Women
[edit] 2004
- IPC Paralympic Games, Athens, Greece
- 1st 3km pursuit (set current world record of 3:36.816)
- 1st combined road race and time trial
- 2nd kilometer time trial
- 3rd match sprints
- US National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st Elite Women
[edit] 2003
- IPC European Games, Prague, Czech Republic
- 1st kilometer time trial
- 1st 14km time trial
- 2nd 3km pursuit
- 2nd road race
- 3rd match sprints
- IBSA World Championships, Quebec, Canada
- 1st 3km pursuit
- 1st match sprints
- 2nd kilometer time trial
- 2nd road race
- US Paralympic National Championships, Colorado Springs, CO
- 1st 3km pursuit
- 1st kilometer time trial
- 1st match sprints
[edit] 2002
- IPC World Championships, Altenstadt, Germany
- 1st 3km pursuit
- 1st 23km time trial
- 2nd kilometer time trial
