BROWN Clara

United States of America

Date of Birth: 3 Nov 1995

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Sport Class: C3

Place of birth: PORTLAND, ME

Birth Country:

United States of America

Place of residence : WHITEFISH, MT

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Cycling Track	Women's C1-3 3000m Individual Pursuit	4
	Women's C1-3 500m Time Trial

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Izu Velodrome	Women's C1-3 3000m Individual Pursuit Qualifying	Finished
	Izu Velodrome	Women's C1-3 3000m Individual Pursuit Final - Bronze	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

CYCLING ROAD

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Road World Championships
3	Women's C3 - Road Race	2019	Emmen, NED
3	C3 Time Trial	2019	Emmen, NED
Track World Championships
1	Women's C3 - Omnium	2020	Milton, ON, CAN
2	Women's C3 - Scratch Race	2020	Milton, ON, CAN
6	Women's C3 - Scratch Race	2019	Apeldoorn, NED

CYCLING TRACK

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Track World Championships
1	Women's C3 - 500m Time Trial	2020	Milton, ON, CAN
2	C3 3000m Individual Pursuit	2020	Milton, ON, CAN
5	Women's C3 - 500m Time Trial	2019	Apeldoorn, NED
8	C3 3000m Individual Pursuit	2019	Apeldoorn, NED

Cooking breakfast, spending time outside hiking and camping, downhill skiing. (teamusa.org, 01 Jan 2020)

Occupation:

Economics, Environmental Planning - University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, USA

Partner Noah Middlestaedt

Languages spoken:

English, Spanish

Sarah Hammer [national]; Noah Middlestaedt [personal]

Sporting relatives:

Her partner Noah Middlestaedt has represented the United States of America in Para cycling at the world championships. He has also served as her coach. (teamusa.org, 15 Nov 2020)

Other sports:

She was a competitive gymnast at level 7 before her injury. She also served as coxswain for the University of Puget Sound rowing team in the United States of America. (teamusa.org, 01 Jan 2020, 06 Dec 2018; bicycling.com, 07 Jan 2019)

She began riding a modified bicycle in 2014, and took up Para cycling in 2017. (bicycling.com, 07 Jan 2019)

She took up rowing when she was younger, and some of her teammates did cycling in their spare time. "I thought it sounded cool, but I wasn't sure if I could ride or modify a bike to be what I needed. But I met a guy in college who worked at a bike shop. He said I could definitely modify a bike, and that riding was totally a possibility. After studying, I sought an atypical professional path, working as a travel guide, leading hiking and cycling tours around the US and Europe. It was through this work that I became connected with US Paralympics in May of 2018, and soon re-discovered my athletic prowess after attending a Talent Identification camp for cycling." (LinkedIn profile, 01 Mar 2020; bicycling.com, 07 Jan 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, and to attend a law school. (LinkedIn profile, 24 Mar 2020; teamusa.org, 01 Jan 2020)

Her family and friends. (teamusa.org, 13 Nov 2020)

General Interest

Classification
C3 (UCI, 26 May 2021)

Type of Impairment
Spinal Cord Injuries (bicycling.com, 07 Jan 2019)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (bicycling.com, 07 Jan 2019)

Impairment Details
At age 12 she fractured her C5 and C6 vertebrae at gymnastics practice. She initially had no feeling from the neck down but after two-and-a-half months of rehabilitation at a specialist medical centre, she was able to run on a treadmill. "My life was forever changed from that injury. I was already a very motivated and dedicated athlete, but that experience changed the way I now look at physical activity. It was a priority of mine to stay healthy, and I just always believed I'd recover." (bicycling.com, 07 Jan 2019)

General
PARTNER AND COACH
Her partner Noah Middlestaedt is also her coach. "It's actually a really good thing for both of us, because we can share so much. We share our training, our lives, everything. I love having him with me. I think it's really forced us to improve our communication, you need to talk about things in order to have it work. I think we have come a long way there." (teamusa.org, 15 Nov 2020)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She has served as an ambassador for Outride, an organisation that runs cycling programmes for children to improve social and mental health. She has also worked on obtaining her private pilot's license. (bicycling.com, 31 Mar 2021; teamusa.org, 01 Jan 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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