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Kaia Schmid has long been one of the most promising young talents in American cycling, and the 18-year-old Marblehead native delivered on that promise in a big way in 2021.
Schmid has excelled in road cycling and in track—a specialized discipline where riders compete in short, high-speed races on banked circuits known as velodromes.
In her final season as a junior rider, Schmid won her first World Championship in the elimination race at Track Worlds in Cairo, Egypt, and