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Kirsti Lay

Lay in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Kirsti Lay
Born	(1988-04-07) 7 April 1988 (age 36) Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Team information
Current team	Retired
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider
Amateur team
2014–2015	SAS–Mazda–Macogep
Professional team
2016–2019	Rally Cycling
Medal record Representing  Canada Women's track cycling Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team pursuit World Championships 2016 London Team pursuit 2015 Yvelines Team pursuit Pan American Games 2015 Toronto Team pursuit Pan American Championships 2015 Santiago Team pursuit

Kirsti Lay (born 7 April 1988) is a Canadian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally for UCI Women's Team Rally UHC Cycling between 2016 and 2019. She rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, winning a bronze medal in the Team Pursuit. In 2016, she was named in Canada's 2016 Olympic team. She won the bronze medal in the team pursuit event.

Prior to taking up cycling Lay was a speed skater, competing at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and at the 2009 Winter Universiade.

Personal life

Lay is married to Canadian former speed skater Mathieu Giroux.

Major results

Track

2014

Team pursuit, 2014–15 UCI Track Cycling World Cup

2nd Guadalajara

3rd London

2015

1st Team pursuit, Pan American Games (with Allison Beveridge, Laura Brown and Jasmin Glaesser)

Team pursuit, 2015–16 UCI Track Cycling World Cup

1st Cali

2nd Cambridge

2nd Team pursuit, Pan American Track Championships (with Allison Beveridge, Annie Foreman-Mackey and Stephanie Roorda)

3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships

2016

2nd Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships

3rd Team pursuit, Olympic Games

2017

3rd Team pursuit, 2016–17 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Los Angeles

Road

2014

5th Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau

2015

1st Mountains classification Tour of California

10th Overall San Dimas Stage Race

2017

1st Stage 1 Cascade Cycling Classic

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau

8th Chrono Gatineau

9th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic

2018

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd White Spot / Delta Road Race

4th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic

10th Overall Tour of the Gila

References

1. Kirsti Lay at Cycling Archives (archived)
2. Soladay, Tom. "2019 men's and women's rosters". Rally UHC Cycling. Circuit Sport. Archived from the original on 22 January 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
3. ^ "Olympic medallist Kirsti Lay announces retirement from track cycling". Airdrie City View. Great West Newspapers. The Canadian Press. 16 September 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
4. "Entry List: Women" (PDF). UCI. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
5. Final Results
6. Tozer, Jamie (29 June 2016). "Returning Olympians highlight Canada's cycling team". www.olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
7. "Kirsti Lay". Speed Skating Canada. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
8. "CAN Announces Long Track Speed Skating Team". Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire. 15 February 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
9. "Cascade Cycling Classic: Lay wins stage 1 McKenzie Pass Road Race". cyclingnews.com. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
10. "Beveridge Wins Canadian Road Title". Cycling Canada Cyclisme. 25 June 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.

External links

• Kirsti Lay at UCI
• Kirsti Lay at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Kirsti Lay at ProCyclingStats
• Kirsti Lay at Cycling Quotient
• Kirsti Lay at CycleBase

• 1988 births
• Living people
• Canadian female cyclists
• Sportspeople from Medicine Hat
• Canadian female speed skaters
• Cyclists at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
• Olympic cyclists for Canada
• Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
• Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic bronze medalists in cycling
• Pan American Games medalists in cycling
• Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
• 21st-century Canadian sportswomen