James (Jamie) Alvord III (born ) is an American male sprint track cyclist, representing Edge Cycling Team. Alvord is a Pan American Continental Championship bronze medalist and a 10-time American National Champion. He holds USA Cycling National Champion titles in the sprint, Time Trial and Team sprint.
Alvord is married to 27-time National Champion Mandy Marquardt. The pair met in 2010 and started dating in 2012 when they both raced for Edge Cycling Team
Alvord competed in the 2021–22 UCI Track Cycling season and 2022–23 UCI Track Cycling season.
Alvord represented the United States at the 2023 Pan American Games, in Santiago, Chile. He finished 4th in the Men's Team Sprint.
He competed at the 2023 Track Pan American Continental Championships, in San Juan, Argentina. He finished 5th in the Men's Team Sprint and 8th in the Men's 1 km Time Trial. In 2024, Alvord represented the United States at the 2024 Track Pan American Continental Championships. Alvord, part of the Men's Team Sprint, secured a bronze medal.
Career Alvord took up cycling at a young age, following in the path of his father Jim, who was a competitive cyclist during the 1980s.
In 2010, Alvord finished third in the Men's Tandem Road Race, Blind/Visually Impaired at the USA Cycling 2010 Paralympic Road Nationals in Bend, Oregon. He was the captain for stoker Steve Baskis. In 2013, a month after breaking his scapula and three ribs, Alvord and teammate Leandro Bottasso of Argentina won Tandemonium.
Alvord won his first national title, in the Team Sprint, along with David Espinoza and James Mellen, at the 2016 United States National Track Championships. That same year, he competed at the Milton International Challenge p/b Lexus, a UCI CL1 event in Milton, Ontario, Canada.
In 2021, Alvord won the Sprint, Time Trial and Team Sprint titles at his home track, the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. He added a UCI victory in the class 1 event, the T-Town Summer Games – Festival of Speed in the summer of 2021.
Alvord successfully defended his titles in the Sprint, Time Trial and Team Sprint events at the 2022 United States National Track Championships.
Major results Sources:
;2014 3rd Scratch Race, United States National Track Championships 3rd Team Sprint with Andrew Carlberg and Jonathan Fraley, United States National Track Championships 4th Miss and Out, United States National Track Championships 2016 1st Team Sprint with David Espinoza and James Mellen, United States National Track Championships 3rd Keirin, United States National Track Championships 4th Sprint, United States National Track Championships 5th, Keirin, UCI CL1 – Milton International Challenge p/b Lexus 6th, Sprint, UCI CL1 – Milton International Challenge p/b Lexus 2017 2nd Team Sprint with James Mellen and Tommy Quinn, United States National Track Championships 2nd 1 km Time Trial, United States National Track Championships 4th Sprint, United States National Track Championships 5th Sprint, UCI CL1 – Easter International Cycling Grand Prix II 2018 2nd Team Sprint with James Mellen and Zachariah McClendon, United States National Track Championships 4th Sprint, United States National Track Championships 2021 1st Sprint, United States National Track Championships 1st 1 km Time Trial, United States National Track Championships 1st Team Sprint with Tommy Quinn, Geneway Tang and Andrew Chu, United States National Track Championships 1st Sprint, UCI CL1 – T-Town Summer Games – Festival of Speed 2022 1st Sprint, United States National Track Championships 1st 1 km Time Trial, United States National Track Championships 1st Team Sprint with Andrew Chu, Barak Pipkins, and Nicholas Roberts, United States National Track Championships 7th, 1 km Time Trial, Pan American Track Cycling Championships, Lima, Peru 2023 1st Sprint, United States National Track Championships 1st 1 km Time Trial, United States National Track Championships 1st Team Sprint with Evan Boone, Dalton Walters, and Jashua Hartman, United States National Track Championships 5th, Team Sprint, Pan American Track Cycling Championships, San Juan, Argentina 8th, 1 km Time Trial, Pan American Track Cycling Championships, San Juan, Argentina
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