Name: Ruth Winder

Sport: Cycling

Discipline(s): Road Cycling, Track Cycling

Event(s): Road Race

Height: 5-4

Weight: 127

DOB: 7/9/1993

Birthplace: Yorkshire, Great Britain

Hometown: Lafayette, Calif.

High School: Homeschooled (Walnut Creek, Calif.) '11

Team/Club: Trek-Segafredo

Olympic Experience

• Two-time Olympian (2016, 2020); one-time Olympic medalist (1 silver)
• Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, 45th (road race)
• Olympic Games Rio 2016, silver (track – team pursuit)

World Championship Experience

• Most recent: 2020 – DNF (road – road race)
• Years of participation: Road – 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020; Track – 2016
• Medals: 1 (1 gold)
• Gold – 2016 (track – team pursuit)

Personal: Part of the five-member women’s team that made history for USA Cycling by winning the program’s first world title in team pursuit…Daughter of Margaret and Robert Winder...Has five siblings – three sisters and two brothers, all of whom were born in the United Kingdom...Her family moved to the U.S. in 2000...Nickname is “Rambo”...Hobbies include drawing, going for walks with her dog and shopping.

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