Chloé Dygert Owen
Chloé Dygert Owen (née Dygert; born January 1, 1997) is an American professional racing cyclist,[2] who currently rides for UCI Women's Team Sho-Air TWENTY20.[3] She has won five 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.
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Born | Chloé Dygert January 1, 1997 Brownsburg, Indiana, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 147 lb (67 kg)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Sho-Air TWENTY20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2016– | TWENTY16–Ridebiker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Career
Chloé Dygert was athletic from childhood on and played mainly basketball in her early years. However, she did not seriously start cycling 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.[4]
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. Experienced riders like Sarah Hammer praised her attitude and former cyclist Kristin Armstrong said about Dygert that she was a "natural". 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. At the 2017 UCI Track 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 UCI World Championships 2018 Chloé 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.[5]
Personal life
In November 2016, she married fellow professional cyclist Logan Owen.[6]
Career achievements
Major results
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- Road
- 2013
- National Novice Road Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 2015
- UCI Junior Road World Championships
- 1st
Road race - 1st
Time trial
- 1st
- National Novice Road Championships
- 1st
Road race - 1st
Time trial
- 1st
- 2016
- 6th Overall Tour of California
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 2 (TTT)
- 1st
- 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
- 1st
- 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
- 1st
Overall Joe Martin Stage Race- 1st
Points classification - 1st
Mountains classification - 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stages 1 & 4
- 1st
- 1st Chrono Kristin Armstrong
- 2nd Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 4
- 1st
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 4th Road race
- 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
- 1st
- UCI Track World Cup
- 1st
Individual pursuit – Los Angeles - 1st
Team pursuit – Los Angeles
- 1st
- 2018
- UCI Track World Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit - 1st
Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2019
- Pan American Track Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit
- 1st
- 2020
- UCI Track World Championships
- 1st
Team pursuit - 1st
Individual pursuit
- 1st
World records
Event | Record | Date | Meet | Location | Ref |
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Individual pursuit | 3:17.283 | February 29, 2020 | World Championships | ![]() | [7] |
3:16.937 | [7] |
References
- "Chloé Dygert Owen". teamusa.org. United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Chloe Dygert". Cycling Archives. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- "Sho-Air TWENTY20 Announces 2019 Roster with 4 Canadians". CanadianCyclist.com. Canadian Cyclist. January 16, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- "19-year-old Chloe Dygert ready to chase gold at Rio Olympics | NBC Olympics". web.archive.org. August 4, 2016. Archived from the original on August 4, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- "Chloé Dygert". Red Bull. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- 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.
- "Chloe Dygert powers to new world record in gold-medal finale". Velonews.com. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Chloe Dygert at Olympedia
- Chloe Dygert at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Chloe Dygert at Cycling Archives
- Chloe Dygert at ProCyclingStats
- Chloe Dygert at CycleBase