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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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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Mountain bike
[edit]- 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
- 1st
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- 2024
- Pan American Championships
- 3rd Cross-country
- 3rd Cross-country short track
- 3rd
Cyclo-cross
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "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
[edit]- Gunnar Holmgren at ProCyclingStats
- Gunnar Holmgren at Olympedia
- Gunnar Holmgren at InterSportStats
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- Canadian mountain bikers
- Canadian cyclo-cross cyclists
- 21st-century Canadian sportsmen
- Cyclists at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada in cycling
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for Canada
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