Nicole Freedman (born May 21, 1972) is an American Olympic cyclist.^[1]

Freedman, who is Jewish, was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts.^[1][2][3][4] She attended MIT, and then Stanford University.^[1][4] Among the teams she has competed on are Shaklee (1997–1998), Charles Schwab (1999–2000), Credit Suisse First Boston (2001), RONA (2002), and Basis (2003–).^[1]

In 1997, she was a US National Team member.^[1] She was a member of the US cycling team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia (and competed in the 119.7 km women's road race), and won the 64-mile (103 km) US National Championship Road Race.^[1][2] In 2001, she won the US National Championship Criterium. In 2003, she came in second in the Israel National Championship road race.^[1]

In 2001, she was honored by the US Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.^[5]

In 2007, Freedman became head of the "Boston Bikes" initiative for the City of Boston under Mayor Thomas Menino.^[6][7]

On April 3, 2012, Freedman announced that she would become the Executive Director of Maine Huts & Trails, transitioning into the role that April and replacing David Herring as the second full-time Executive Director for the organization.^[8]

Nicole returned to the position of Director of the Boston Bikes program in January 2013.^[9]

Freedman resigned from Boston Bikes in March 2015 pending a move to Seattle, Washington.^[10]

Subsequently she became the Chief of Active Transportation & Partnerships in the Seattle Department of Transportation per their organizational chart of July 2015^[11] She was located in the Transit and Mobility group and worked on the Puget Sound Bike Share initiative as well as a new Summer Parkways program.^[12]

On September 12, 2016, Nicole was appointed to be Director of Transportation for the City of Newton, MA.