Chloé Dygert

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Chloé Dygert
File:UCI Track World Championships 2018 237.jpg
Dygert in 2018
Personal information
Full name Chloé Dygert
Born (1997-01-01) January 1, 1997 (age 27)
Brownsburg, Indiana, U.S.
Height 5 ft 9 in[1]
Weight 147 lb[1]
Team information
Current team Canyon–SRAM
Role Rider
Rider type
  • Time trialist (road)
  • Pursuitist (track)
Amateur team(s)
2020 Twenty20 Pro Cycling
Professional team(s)
2016–2019 TWENTY16–Ridebiker[2]
2021– Canyon–SRAM
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
World Time Trial Championships (2019, 2023)
National Time Trial Championships (2021, 2023)

Chloé Dygert (/ˈdaɪɡərt/; born January 1, 1997) is an American professional racing cyclist[3] who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM.[4] She has won seven gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and three medals (one silver and two bronze) 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, nineteen-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]

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.[8]

On September 24, 2020, at the UCI Road World Championships, Dygert crashed during the women's time trial event,[9] suffering a laceration to her left leg which required surgery.[10] That November, Dygert signed a four-year contract with UCI Women's WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM, from the 2021 season.[11]

Personal life

In November 2016, she married fellow professional cyclist Logan Owen and took his surname.[12] The marriage ended in divorce in January 2020.[13]

As of April 2024, Dygert was in a relationship with Axel Merckx 52, with whom she lives in Belgium.[14]

A 2020 profile by her sponsor Red Bull noted that she is a conservative who does not believe in feminism.[15]

Dygert issued a public apology in November 2020 for her social media conduct that was deemed inappropriate.[16] Some criticized her apology as "not sufficient".[17]

Career achievements

File:Chloe Dygert (cropped).jpg
Dygert in 2017.

Major results

Road

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2013
National Amateur Championships
3rd Road race
3rd Time trial
2015
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Road race
1st Jersey rainbow chrono.svg Time trial
National Amateur Championships
1st MaillotUSA.PNG Road race
1st MaillotUSA.PNG Time trial
2016
6th Overall Tour of California
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
2017
1st 20px Time trial, Pan American Championships
4th Time trial, UCI World Championships
2018
Tour of the Gila
1st Stages 2 & 3 (ITT)
2nd Chrono Kristin Armstrong
6th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 4
2019
1st Jersey rainbow chrono.svg Time trial, UCI World Championships
1st Gold medal blank.svg Time trial, Pan American Games
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Colorado Classic
1st Jersey orange.svg Points classification
1st Jersey blue.svg Mountains classification
1st Jersey green.svg Young rider classification
1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 4
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stages 1 & 4
1st Chrono Kristin Armstrong
2nd Overall Tour of the Gila
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 4
National Championships
2nd Time trial
4th Road race
2021
1st MaillotUSA.PNG Time trial, National Championships
7th Time trial, Summer Olympics
2023
1st Jersey rainbow chrono.svg Time trial, UCI World Championships
National Championships
1st MaillotUSA.PNG Road race
1st MaillotUSA.PNG Time trial
2nd Overall RideLondon Classique
1st Stage 2
4th Overall Vuelta a Burgos Feminas
2024
3rd Bronze medal olympic.svg Time trial, Summer Olympics
6th Classic Brugge–De Panne

Track

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2016
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2nd Silver medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
2017
UCI World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual pursuit
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
UCI World Cup
1st Individual pursuit, Los Angeles
1st Team pursuit, Los Angeles
2018
UCI World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual pursuit
2019
1st 20px Team pursuit, Pan American Championships
2020
UCI World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual pursuit
2021
3rd Bronze medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
2023
UCI World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual pursuit

World records

Event Record Date Meet Location Ref
Individual pursuit 3:17.283 February 29, 2020 World Championships Germany Berlin, Germany [18]
3:16.937 [18]

References

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