Jasmin Glaesser

Jasmin Glaesser

Personal information
Born	(1992-07-08) July 8, 1992 Paderborn, Germany
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight	128 pounds (58 kg; 9.1 st)
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Endurance
Medal record Competitor for  Canada Track cycling Summer Olympics Bronze 2012 London Team pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Championships Silver 2012 Melbourne Points race Bronze 2012 Melbourne Team pursuit Bronze 2013 Minsk Team pursuit Pan American Games Gold 2011 Guadalaraja Team pursuit
Infobox last updated on 21 February 2013

Jasmin Glaesser is a Canadian cyclist. Glaesser was part of the Canadian team that won bronze medals at the 2012 London Olympics in the women's team pursuit. She was also part of the team that won gold at the 2011 Pan American Games in the team pursuit.

Glaesser was born in Germany and currently resides in Coquitlam, British Columbia. She received her Canadian citizenship shortly before the 2012 Olympics.^[1]

Career

Her first competition for Canada was at the 2011 Pan American Games where she won gold for her new nation. Glaesser then appeared for Canada at the 2012 World Championships, there she won a silver in the points race before adding a bronze as a member of the team pursuit.^[2] She built onto this the next season, she finished in preparation for the Olympics second in the team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Cup in London in February 2012 and won bronze as a part of the Canada's women's team pursuit at the 2012 Olympics together with Tara Whitten and Gillian Carleton.^[3] After winning the bronze Glaesser said "We were so ready to just go out there and do our best. Team Canada, in coming here, has a saying, ‘Give Your Everything, and that was kind of our motto — leave everything out there."^[4]

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