Jenny Holl

Jenny Holl
MBE
Holl at the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships
Personal information
Full nameJennifer Anne Holl[1]
Born (1999-09-13) 13 September 1999
Stirling, Scotland[2]
Team information
DisciplineTrack, road
RoleRider
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Women's track cycling
European Games
Silver medal – second place2019 MinskTeam pursuit
Women's para cycling
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place2024 ParisInd. pursuit B
Gold medal – first place2024 ParisRoad race B
Silver medal – second place2020 TokyoRoad race B
Silver medal – second place2024 ParisRoad time trial B
Bronze medal – third place2020 TokyoInd. pursuit B
Bronze medal – third place2024 ParisTime trial B
Road World Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 CascaisRoad race B
Gold medal – first place2022 Baie-ComeauTime trial B
Silver medal – second place2022 Baie-ComeauRoad race B
Silver medal – second place2023 GlasgowTime trial B
Silver medal – second place2024 ZurichTime trial B
Silver medal – second place2024 ZurichRoad race B
Bronze medal – third place2023 GlasgowRoad race B
Track World Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesInd. pursuit B
Gold medal – first place2023 GlasgowSprint B
Gold medal – first place2023 GlasgowTime trial B
Gold medal – first place2023 GlasgowInd. pursuit B
Gold medal – first place2025 Rio de JaneiroPursuit B
Silver medal – second place2024 Rio de JaneiroTime trial B
Silver medal – second place2024 Rio de JaneiroSprint B
Silver medal – second place2024 Rio de JaneiroInd. pursuit B
Bronze medal – third place2022 Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesSprint B
Bronze medal – third place2022 Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesTime trial B
Bronze medal – third place2025 Rio de JaneiroSprint B

Jennifer Anne Holl (born 13 September 1999) is a Scottish professional racing cyclist.[3][4] Originally from Scotland, Holl moved to Manchester in 2017.[5][6]

Career

Holl (left) piloting Sophie Unwin (right) at the 2024 Road World Championships.

In January 2018, Holl became Scotland's youngest national champion, at the British Track Cycling Championships.[7] In June 2019, at the European Games in Minsk, Holl won a silver medal in the team pursuit event.[8][9]

Holl became a para-cycling sighted pilot for Sophie Unwin in March 2021 after coming to the end of her time with the Great Britain Senior Academy.[2]

Just four months after first partnering with Unwin, the pair were selected as members of the ParalympicsGB cycling squad for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.[10] Holl won the bronze medal in the individual pursuit on the track at the 2020 Summer Paralympics alongside Unwin, before taking silver in the road race B.[11]

At the 2024 British Cycling National Track Championships, she won both the Scratch and Points national titles.[12][13]

On 22 July 2024 it was announced that Holl had been selected for the British team ahead of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, her second Games, as a pilot for Sophie Unwin.[14] Together they competed in both road and track cycling disciplines, and medalled in all four of their events. The first of these medals, a bronze, came on 30 August in the women's 1000 m time trial B. A second medal, the duo's first Paralympic gold, came two days later in the women's 3000 m pursuit B. In the road time trial B on 4 September they claimed silver, beating fellow British pairing Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall, who won bronze. Holl and Unwin won a second gold medal of the Games in the women's road race B on 6 September.[15]

Holl was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[16]

Major results

2018
National Track Championships
1st Team pursuit
2019
National Track Championships
1st Team pursuit
2021
Paralympic Games
2nd Road race B
3rd Individual pursuit B
2023
Para-cycling Road World Championships
2nd Time trial B
3rd Road race B
2024
National Track Championships
1st Scratch
1st Points
Paralympic Games
1st Individual pursuit B
1st Road race B
2nd Road time trial B
3rd Time trial B
Para-cycling Track World Championships
2nd Time trial B
2nd Sprint B
2nd Individual pursuit B
Para-cycling Road World Championships
2nd Time trial B
2nd Road race B

References

  1. ↑ "2025 New Year Honours List" (PDF). Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Jenny Holl - Great Britain Cycling Team Rider Profile". British Cycling. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "Jenny Holl". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  4. ↑ "Jenny Holl". British Cycling. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "Jenny Holl loving life at British Cycling's 'medal factory'". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "Stirling cycling talents join Manchester 'medal factory' in a bid to make Team GB". Daily Record. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "Teenager Jenny Holl become British Champion". The National. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Jack Carlin beats Jason Kenny in men's sprint at European Games". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  9. ↑ "Barker and Robers claim stunning gold". British Cycling. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  10. ↑ "ParalympicsGB confirms Para-cycling team for Tokyo 2020". British Cycling. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  11. ↑ "Cycling Track – Women's B 3000m Individual Pursuit – Finals – Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 28 August 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  12. ↑ "National Track Championships 2024: Jody Cundy wins national title on return". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  13. ↑ "Report: Day 3 British Track Championships". Velo UK. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  14. ↑ "ParalympicsGB cycling squad announced for Paris 2024 Paralympic Games". ParalympicsGB. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  15. ↑ "Who won ParalympicsGB's 124 medals in Paris?". BBC. 8 September 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  16. ↑ "Southgate knighted in New Year Honours - full list". BBC. 30 December 2024. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
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