USA Cycling announced Tuesday that it has awarded grants to track athletes Megan Jastrab and Kendall Ryan, who will be on the team for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, as part of the Catlin Fund.
The fund honors the legacy of three-time world champion and 2016 Olympic silver medalist Kelly Catlin, who died in 2019.
Just Love, 19, won the 2019 UCI World Road Championships junior race title and took the rainbow jersey in the omnium and Madison at the junior track world championships. For the road season, he signed with Team DSM; he and Jennifer Valente finished ninth in Madison at the 2020 Track World Championships.
Ryan, 28, has been racing on the road with Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank since 2011, but started running on the track as a junior and won a national title in a points race. She resumed track racing with her sights set on Tokyo and won a bronze medal at the 2019 Track World Cup in Brisbane with Christina Birch.
Both athletes are part of USA Cycling's long team for Tokyo and train with Madison and Team Pursuit at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
The U.S. has qualified six athletes for the track events, five for the endurance events, and one for the sprint events at the Tokyo Olympics.
Chloe Dygert, Valente, Emma White, and Lily Williams won the team pursuit at the 2020 Track World Championships, earning an automatic spot on the long team. Sprinters Maddie Godby and Mandy Marquardt, as well as Ryan, Justlove, and Birch, were also automatic nominees to the long team.
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