Jenny Holl

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| fullname = Jennifer Anne Holl{{cite web |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/676a8be3ff2c870561bdea50/NEW_YEAR_HONOURS_LIST_2025.pdf |title=2025 New Year Honours List |access-date=31 December 2024}}

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| birth_place = Stirling, Scotland{{Cite web |title=Jenny Holl - Great Britain Cycling Team Rider Profile |url=https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/bio/Jenny_Holl |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=British Cycling |language=en}}

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| discipline = Track, road

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Jennifer Anne Holl (born 13 September 1999) is a Scottish professional racing cyclist.{{cite web |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/jenny-holl |title=Jenny Holl |work=ProCyclingStats |accessdate=1 July 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/points?person_id=99665&type=national |title=Jenny Holl |work=British Cycling |accessdate=1 July 2019}} Originally from Scotland, Holl moved to Manchester in 2017.{{cite web |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/other_sports/15694745.jenny-holl-loving-life-at-british-cyclings-medal-factory/ |title=Jenny Holl loving life at British Cycling's 'medal factory' |work=Herald Scotland |accessdate=1 July 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/stirling-cycling-talents-join-manchester-11364488 |title=Stirling cycling talents join Manchester 'medal factory' in a bid to make Team GB |work=Daily Record |accessdate=1 July 2019}}

Career

File:2024 UCI Road World Championships Zurich Women & Men B 16.jpg (right) at the 2024 Road World Championships.]]

In January 2018, Holl became Scotland's youngest national champion, at the British Track Cycling Championships.{{cite web |url=https://www.thenational.scot/sport/15903520.teenager-jenny-holl-become-british-champion/ |title=Teenager Jenny Holl become British Champion |work=The National |accessdate=1 July 2019}} In June 2019, at the European Games in Minsk, Holl won a silver medal in the team pursuit event.{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/worldcup2010/news/17738123.jack-carlin-beats-jason-kenny-in-mens-sprint-at-european-games/ |title=Jack Carlin beats Jason Kenny in men's sprint at European Games |work=Oxford Mail |accessdate=1 July 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/track/article/20190630-Barker-and-Roberts-claim-stunning-gold-to-close-out-in-Minsk-0 |title=Barker and Robers claim stunning gold |work=British Cycling |accessdate=1 July 2019}}

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.

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.{{cite web |title=ParalympicsGB confirms Para-cycling team for Tokyo 2020 |url=https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/ParalympicsGB-confirms-Para-cycling-team-Tokyo-2020 |website=British Cycling |date=15 July 2021 |access-date=8 September 2024}} 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.{{cite web |title=Cycling Track – Women's B 3000m Individual Pursuit – Finals – Results |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/resPG2020-/pdf/PG2020-/CTR/PG2020-_CTR_C73A2_CTRWPURSUIT-03031-----FNL---------.pdf |work=Tokyo 2020 Paralympics |publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |date=28 August 2021 |access-date=28 August 2021 |archive-date=28 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210828130749/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/resPG2020-/pdf/PG2020-/CTR/PG2020-_CTR_C73A2_CTRWPURSUIT-03031-----FNL---------.pdf |url-status=dead}}

At the 2024 British Cycling National Track Championships, she won both the Scratch and Points national titles.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/68385552 |title=National Track Championships 2024: Jody Cundy wins national title on return | website=BBC Sport |access-date=25 February 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.velouk.net/2024/02/26/report-day-3-british-track-championships/ |title=Report: Day 3 British Track Championships | website=Velo UK |access-date=27 February 2024}}

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.{{cite web |title=ParalympicsGB cycling squad announced for Paris 2024 Paralympic Games |url=https://www.paralympics.org.uk/articles/paralympicsgb-cycling-squad-announced-for-paris-2024-paralym |website=ParalympicsGB |date=22 July 2024 |access-date=8 September 2024}} 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.{{cite web |title=Who won ParalympicsGB's 124 medals in Paris? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cp3521d4zxvo |website=BBC |date=8 September 2024 |access-date=8 September 2024}}

Holl was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to cycling.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cg4zpngy2k7o |title=Southgate knighted in New Year Honours - full list |website=BBC |date=30 December 2024 |access-date=31 December 2024}}

Major results

;2018

:National Track Championships

::1st 20px Team pursuit

;2019

:National Track Championships

::1st 20px Team pursuit

;2021

:Paralympic Games

::2nd 15px Road race B

::3rd 15px Individual pursuit B

;2023

:Para-cycling Road World Championships

::2nd 15px Time trial B

::3rd 15px Road race B

;2024

:National Track Championships

::1st 20px Scratch

::1st 20px Points

:Paralympic Games

::1st 15px Individual pursuit B

::1st 15px Road race B

::2nd 15px Road time trial B

::3rd 15 px Time trial B

:Para-cycling Track World Championships

::2nd 15 px Time trial B

::2nd 15 px Sprint B

::2nd 15 px Individual pursuit B

:Para-cycling Road World Championships

::2nd 15 px Time trial B

::2nd 15 px Road race B

References

External links

[https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/gbcyclingteam/bio/Jenny_Holl Jenny Holl] at British Cycling
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Category:1999 births

Category:Living people

Category:Scottish female cyclists

Category:British female cyclists

Category:Place of birth missing (living people)

Category:Cyclists at the 2019 European Games

Category:European Games medalists in cycling

Category:European Games silver medalists for Great Britain

Category:Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Category:Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Category:Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics