Chloé Dygert
Personal information | |
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Full name | Chloé Dygert |
Born | Brownsburg, Indiana, United States | January 1, 1997
Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1] |
Weight | 147 lb (67 kg)[1] |
Team information | |
Current team | Canyon–SRAM |
Disciplines |
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Role | Rider |
Rider type |
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Amateur team | |
2020 | Twenty20 Pro Cycling |
Professional teams | |
2016–2019 | TWENTY16–Ridebiker[2] |
2021– | Canyon–SRAM |
Major wins | |
One-day races and Classics | |
Medal record |
Chloé Dygert (born January 1, 1997) is an American professional racing cyclist,[3] who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM.[4] She has won seven gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and a silver medal at the Olympic Games. She also won the Women's junior road race and Women's junior time trial at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships.
Career[]
Chloé Dygert was athletic from childhood on and played mainly basketball in her early years. However, she did not take cycling seriously until after a shoulder injury in 2013. After another injury she was forced to retire from basketball. In 2015 she became national junior champion, in road racing and individual time trial, as well as two-time Junior World Champion in the same disciplines. Then she received an invitation from the US cycling federation USA Cycling.[5]
In March 2016, Dygert started at the World Cup in London as a member of the US four-in-four team pursuit and won the world title with the team. In the same year, 19-year-old Dygert was nominated to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she won a silver medal in the team pursuit.
The 2016 Olympic Pursuit Team was marked by controversy. The head coach, Andy Sparks, was fired for fostering a hostile environment.[6] Dygert supported Sparks and continued to work with him until 2018.[7] A former teammate, Kelly Catlin, later took her own life in 2019.[8]
At the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong, she became World Champion in the team pursuit for the second time, along with Kelly Catlin, Jennifer Valente and Kimberly Geist and clinched the world title in the singles pursuit. In May 2017, she won her first Panamerican title, in the individual time trial on the road.
At the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Dygert won two titles: along with Kelly Catlin, Jennifer Valente and Kimberly Geist in the team pursuit and in the individual pursuit. She succeeded the victory in the individual pursuit in an outstanding manner: she set a world record two times in a row, in the qualification as well as in the final (3:20.060 minutes). Her record from the final caught the record of road cycling time-trial world champion, the Dutchwoman Annemiek van Vleuten. In the Pan American Games in 2019 she won gold in the individual time trial.[9]
On September 24, 2020, at the UCI Road World Championships, Dygert crashed during the women's time trial event,[10] suffering a laceration to her left leg which required surgery.[11] That November, Dygert signed a four-year contract with UCI Women's WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM, from the 2021 season.[12]
Personal life[]
In November 2016, she married fellow professional cyclist Logan Owen and took his surname.[13] However, the marriage ended in divorce in January 2020.[14]
A 2020 profile by her sponsor Red Bull notes, "She is a staunch conservative...she does not believe in feminism."[15] Dygert issued a public apology in November 2020 for social media conduct that was deemed inappropriate.[16] Her "likes" of social media posts were widely perceived as racist and transphobic. Apart from Canyon-SRAM, the cycling brand Rapha stated that it "whole-heartedly condemns" her social media conduct and found her apology "insufficient." Rapha described her actions as "offensive, divisive, and have no place in cycling or society."[17]
Career achievements[]
Major results[]
Road[]
- 2013
- Amateur National Road Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 2015
- UCI Junior Road World Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- Amateur National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 2016
- 6th Overall Tour of California
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT)
- 2017
- 1st Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
- 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2018
- Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stages 2 & 3 (ITT)
- 2nd Chrono Kristin Armstrong
- 6th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 4
- 2019
- 1st Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Time trial, Pan American Games
- 1st Overall Colorado Classic
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 4
- 1st Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stages 1 & 4
- 1st Chrono Kristin Armstrong
- 2nd Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 4
- Professional National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 4th Road race
- 2021
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
Track[]
- 2016
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2nd Team pursuit, Olympic Games
- 2017
- UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 1st Team pursuit
- UCI Track World Cup
- 1st Individual pursuit – Los Angeles
- 1st Team pursuit – Los Angeles
- 2018
- UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 2019
- 1st Team pursuit, Pan American Track Championships
- 2020
- UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Individual pursuit
World records[]
Event | Record | Date | Meet | Location | Ref |
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Individual pursuit | 3:17.283 | February 29, 2020 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | [18] |
3:16.937 | [18] |
References[]
- ^ a b "Chloé Dygert". teamusa.org. United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- ^ "Sho-Air TWENTY20 Announces 2019 Roster with 4 Canadians". CanadianCyclist.com. Canadian Cyclist. January 16, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- ^ "Chloe Dygert". Cycling Archives. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ^ "Canyon//SRAM Racing". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on January 10, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
- ^ "19-year-old Chloe Dygert ready to chase gold at Rio Olympics | NBC Olympics". August 4, 2016. Archived from the original on August 4, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^ Weislo, Laura (March 3, 2017). "USA women's team pursuit coach dismissed from program after SafeSport complaint". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- ^ "Dygert Owen's fierce drive and pure talent a golden combination". VeloNews.com. June 8, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- ^ "Olympic Cycling Medalist Kelly Catlin Dead At 23". NPR.org. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
- ^ "Chloé Dygert". Red Bull. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^ "Road World Championships: Chloe Dygert has leg surgery after crash". BBC Sport. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
- ^ "Chloe Dygert crashes out of time trial at Imola World Championships". CyclingNews. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
- ^ Frattini, Kirsten (November 10, 2020). "Chloe Dygert makes surprise transfer to Canyon-SRAM in 2021". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
- ^ Becerra Jr., John (December 19, 2016). "Owen cycling success 'almost overwhelming'". Kitsap Sun. Brent Morris, Gannett Company. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
She also got married to fellow standout pro cyclist and Bremerton native Logan Owen a little over a month ago.
- ^ Rogers, Neal (July 23, 2020). "Cyclists Kate Courtney and Chloé Dygert Go for God". Red Bull. Red Bull Bulletin. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
This past January, the divorce was finalized.
- ^ "American Muscle". Redbull. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- ^ "Chloe Dygert apologises for social media conduct". cyclingnews.com. November 15, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
- ^ "Rapha slams Chloé Dygert over social media conduct: 'An apology she issued was not sufficient'". VeloNews.com. November 27, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
- ^ a b "Chloe Dygert powers to new world record in gold-medal finale". Velonews.com. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
External links[]
- Official website
- Chloe Dygert at Cycling Archives
- Chloe Dygert at ProCyclingStats
- Chloe Dygert at Olympics.com
- Chloe Dygert at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee
- Chloe Dygert at Olympedia
- 1997 births
- Living people
- American female cyclists
- American track cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in cycling
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in cycling
- Pan American Games medalists in cycling
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- People from Brownsburg, Indiana
- UCI Road World Champions (women)
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women)
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- 21st-century American women
- Cyclists from Indiana