Gunnar Holmgren
Gunnar Holmgren competes at the 2021 UCI Cross Country MTB World Cup in Snowshoe, West Virginia. | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | June 23, 1999 Barrie, Ontario | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Pivot Cycles–OTE | ||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Gunnar Holmgren (born June 23, 1999) is a Canadian cross-country mountain biker and cyclo-cross cyclist.[1][2] He won the cross-country race at the 2023 Pan American Games.[3]
Early and family life
Holmgren grew up in a sporting, outdoors environment, with his parents Robert and Lisa both being keen mountain bike racers and his family living on the Hardwood Ski and Bike facility. Despite this, Gunnar's first sport was figure skating, which he competed in at a high level until the age of 14, when he switched to cycling. He is the older brother of fellow racing cyclists Ava and Isabella Holmgren.[4]
Career
At the 2024 Mountain Bike World Cup round in Nové Město na Moravě in May, Holmgren scored a personal best of eighth, the day after his sister Isabella won on her Under-23 World Cup debut at the same venue.[4] That same year, Gunnar and Isabella were named to Canada's 2024 Olympic team.[5]
Major results
Mountain bike
- 2016
- 3rd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- 2017
- 2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- 2021
- 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- 2023
- 1st Cross-country, Pan American Games
- Pan American Championships
- 1st Mixed relay
- 3rd Cross-country short track
- 2024
- Pan American Championships
- 3rd Cross-country
- 3rd Cross-country short track
Cyclo-cross
- 2015–2016
- 2nd National Junior Championships
- 2016–2017
- 1st National Junior Championships
- 1stJunior Indianapolis I & II
- Junior KMC Festival
- 2nd Day 1
- 3rd Day 2
- 2018–2019
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- 1st Peterborough
- 1st Day 1 & 2, Sherbrooke
- 2019–2020
- 1st National Under-23 Championships
- 2nd Peterborough
- 2022–2023
- 2nd Northampton II
- 3rd Northampton I
- 3rd National Championships
- 2024–2025
- 1st Indianapolis II
References
- ^ "Gunnar Holmgren". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
- ^ "Gunnar Holmgren". FirstCycling.com. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
- ^ McKall, Terry (October 21, 2023). "Gunnar Holmgren brings home Canada's first gold medal of 2023 Pan Am Games". cyclingmagazine.ca. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
- ^ a b Donkin, Karissa (July 25, 2024). "Cycling is a family affair for Olympic mountain bikers Isabella and Gunnar Holmgren". CBC.ca. Retrieved November 21, 2025.
- ^ Evans, Tyler (June 3, 2024). "Local brother-sister cycling duo will race for Canada at Olympics". Barrie Today. Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
External links
- Gunnar Holmgren at Cycling Archives
- Gunnar Holmgren at ProCyclingStats
- Gunnar Holmgren at Olympedia