Jenny's Profile

An accomplished road and track rider in her own right, the young Scot made an instant impact in the world of para-cycling, as the pilot for Sophie Unwin, when she took on the role in March 2021. Two years later she is part of a well-established six-time world champion and double Paralympic medal-winning duo.  

Holl made a promising start to her individual career, racing in a number of international events on the road and making a strong showing in her native Women’s Tour of Scotland in 2019 before the pandemic wrote off the 2020 road season.

But her results on the track were even more impressive, the highlight coming in the 2019 European Games when she won a team pursuit silver medal with a Great Britain squad that comprised her, Jessica Roberts, Megan Barker and Josie Knight.

Other personal highlights included Holl, then just 18 years old, becoming Scotland’s youngest ever national champion in 2018 when she was part of the Team Breeze squad that won the team pursuit at the British National Track Championships.

Holl and Unwin became a tandem pair after Holl appeared to be coming to the end of her time with the Great Britain Senior Academy at the start of 2021, which started an incredibly quick elevation for the pair. Within three months of forming a partnership, the pair were world champions on the road and were selected for the Tokyo Paralympics where they delivered incredible debut performances, coming home with a silver medal in the tandem road race and bronze in the individual pursuit in the velodrome.

By June the two riders were making their competitive debut at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in Ostend Belgium where they placed third in both their chosen road disciplines.

They carried that form into the World Championships in Portugal just a few weeks later where they enjoyed a spectacular success taking gold in the road race, followed up by a hugely creditable fourth place. It instantly elevated the duo into the conversation for a Paralympic call-up which duly came for the delayed Tokyo Games.

Tokyo and beyond

The Games saw the culmination of the pair’s early success on the biggest stage as they went on to win an incredible two Paralympic medals; silver in the tandem B road race and bronze in the track pursuit, less than a year after coming together.  

Since the Tokyo Paralympic Games, the pair have gone from strength to strength, performing consistently across the UCI Para Road World Cup season, bringing home one gold and three silver medals over two rounds.

The 2022 UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships saw them crowned world champion in the tandem B time trial, later picking up a silver medal to add to their haul in the road race.

On the track, more success was delivered, showing their broad skillset, with bronze medals in the sprint and 1km time trial, before topping off the season with a world title in the Tandem B pursuit.

2023 continued to see success with one win and three silver medals across the para-cycling road world cup series. Their shining moment came at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships which saw them win an incredible three world titles on the track, in the first time the Olympic and Paralympic programmes were combined at a world championships. They followed this up on the roads of Dumfries and Galloway with a silver in the time-trial and a bronze medal in the road race, capping off a fantastic season for the pairing.

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