Chloé Dygert

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Chloé Dygert Road cycling
Chloé Dygert (2018)
Chloé Dygert (2018)
To person
Full name Chloé Dygert Owen
Date of birth January 1, 1997
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Road / train
Driver type Time trial woman
To the team
Current team TWENTY20 Pro Cycling
function driver
Most important successes
Olympic games
2016 silver - team pursuit
UCI track world championships
2017, 2018, 2020 World Champion - single chase
2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 World Champion - team pursuit
Pan American Games
2019 gold - team pursuit, individual time trial
Last updated: August 30, 2020
The 2020 World Cup four with Lilly Williams, Emma White, Chloé Dygert and Jennifer Valente
Dygert's trademark: pink stockings

Chloé Dygert Owen (born Dygert; born January 1, 1997 in Brownsburg ) is an American cyclist who is active on track and road .

Athletic career

Chloé Dygert was very athletic from childhood and mainly played basketball . She only started cycling seriously in 2013 after a shoulder injury, but had to stop playing basketball again after another injury. In 2015 she became national junior champion in road races and individual time trials , as well as two-time junior world champion in the same disciplines. She then received an invitation from USA Cycling .

In March 2016, Dygert started at the World Track Championships in London as a member of the US track four in the team pursuit ; the team became world champions. Experienced riders like Sarah Hammer praised their attitude, and the former cyclist Kristin Armstrong said of Dygert that she was a "natural talent". In the same year, the 19-year-old Dygert was nominated for participation 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 a second time, together with Kelly Catlin , Jennifer Valente and Kimberly Geist , and she won the world title in the single pursuit. In May 2017 she won her first Pan-American title, in the individual time trial on the road.

At the UCI Track World Championships 2018 , Chloé Dygert won two titles: together with Kelly Catlin, Jennifer Valente and Kimberly Geist in the team pursuit and in the single pursuit . She succeeded in winning the singles pursuit in an outstanding manner: In both the qualification and the final (3: 20.060 minutes) she set a world record ; in the final, she caught up with the time trial world champion on the road, the Dutchwoman Annemiek van Vleuten . She won gold in the individual time trial of the 2019 Pan American game winners .

In 2020 Dygert set a new world record in the single pursuit with 3: 16.937 minutes at the World Railroad Championships in Berlin and became world champion in this discipline, as well as with Jennifer Valente , Lily Williams and Emma White in the team pursuit.

Personal

She has been married to cyclist Logan Owen since November 2016 .

successes

train

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Street

2015
  • World Champion Junior world champion - road race, individual time trial
  • MaillotUSA.PNG American Junior Champion - Road Race, Individual Time Trial
2017
  • PanAmericanJersey.png Pan American Champion - Individual Time Trial
2018
2019

Teams

Web links

Commons : Chloé Dygert  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 19-year-old Chloe Dygert ready to chase gold at Rio Olympics. In: nbcolympics.com. July 20, 2016, archived from the original on August 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 4, 2016 .
  2. ^ John Becerra: Owen cycling success "almost overwhelming". She also got married to fellow standout pro cyclist and Bremerton native Logan Owen a little over a month ago. Kitsap Sun, December 19, 2016; accessed January 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dygert, Chloé
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dygert Owen, Chloé (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Brownsburg