Toronto (Canada), July 12 (EFE).- Since Kelsey Mitchell started cycling six years ago now, the Canadian athlete has literally not stopped pedaling, amazing and winning competitions.
The last one happened last April when he won a gold medal at the UCI World Cup.
Born 29 years ago in Brandon, Manitoba’s second largest city, Mitchell tested herself in multiple sports and forged herself physically while enjoying and enduring the wind, sun, cold and rain along of the Assiniboine River.
The young woman, who will turn 30 on November 26, began to dazzle the world of track cycling during the Pan American Games in Lima in 2019.
The Canadian arrived as an unknown, having only ridden a bike two years earlier after going through gymnastics, football and basketball, and left the Peruvian capital a revelation of surprising potential after dropping out gold in the Speed Test.
Since then, Mitchell has not disappointed.
Four years later, his name is very attractive for fans and experts who are preparing to experience the Pan American Games which will begin in Santiago in exactly 100 days.
The rapid career of the Canadian does not seem to have any respite.
A month after the Pan American Games in Lima, he won gold in the individual and team sprint events at the Pan American Track Championships in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba.
Mitchell also set a new record in the 200 meter event at an altitude of 2,558 meters in Cochabamba.
At the Tokyo Olympics, the Canadian athlete confirmed her quality by winning the gold medal in the sprint, beating Olena Starikova by two laps to zero.
And at the World Championships in Roubaix (France) in 2021, Mitchell won a bronze medal.
But so far, 2022 has been the best year of Mitchell’s track cycling career.
The Canadian won three silver medals and a bronze at the Commonwealth Games held in the English city of Birmingham.
Last year, she returned with the entire luxury team from Canada to the city where it all started for her career.
At the Lima 2022 Pan American Track Cycling Championships, Mitchell won three gold medals (keirin, sprint and team sprint) and one silver (500 meters).
The Camino de Santiago is nearby and is not without appeal for the ambitious and talented cyclist.
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