Coryn Rivera

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Coryn Rivera Road cycling
Coryn Rivera (2018)
Coryn Rivera (2018)
To person
Full name Coryn G. Rivera
Nickname The G
Date of birth August 26, 1992
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Street / train /

Mountain bike / cross-country

To the team
Current team Team Sunweb
function driver
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2017 World Champion - team time trial
2018 bronze - team time trial
UCI Women's WorldTour
Tour of Flanders 2017
Overall ranking The Women's Tour 2018
Prudential RideLondon & Surrey Classic 2017
Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2017
Last updated: March 19, 2020
Rivera on the 2018 Women's Tour
Rivera in the road race at the UCI Road World Championships 2018 in Innsbruck

Coryn G. Rivera (born August 26, 1992 in Garden Grove ) is an American cyclist.

Athletic career

Coryn Rivera's parents immigrated to the United States from the Philippines . Her father had already competed in motocross races in his home country , and in the USA he took part in motorcycle and mountain bike races. Due to injuries, he eventually switched to road cycling . Coryn Rivera took with her father on a tandem on tour rides part. At the age of eleven she started a bike race for the first time, which she also won.

In 2010 Rivera won the bronze medal in the road race of the juniors at the road world championships , in the individual time trial she finished tenth. In 2011 she won a stage of the Tour Féminin en Limousin . In 2014 she got a contract with the women's team of the UnitedHealthcare team , for which she drove for three years. The following year, she decided a stage of the Thuringia Tour for herself, which she succeeded again in 2016. In the same year she started the road world championships in the race of the elite and finished 16th.

In 2017, Coryn Rivera won the Trofeo Alfredo Binda for the first time, a race that is part of the UCI Women's WorldTour . On April 2, 2017, she recorded the greatest success of her career to date by winning the Tour of Flanders in the mass sprint. In September of that year she became world champion in the team time trial with the Sunweb team . In 2018 she won two stages and the points classification of the Thuringia Tour , she also won the second stage of the Women's Tour and then the overall ranking. In addition, Coryn Rivera became American road racing champion for the first time after she had already won 71 national championship titles in various cycling disciplines and age groups. At the UCI Road World Championships in 2018 , she took third place with the Sunweb team in the team time trial.

successes

Street

2009
  • MaillotEEUU.PNG American Junior Champion - Road Race
2010
  • Tour Féminin en Limousin
  • bronze Junior World Championship - road racing
  • MaillotEEUU.PNG American Junior Champion - Road Race, Individual Time Trial
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

train

2008
  • MaillotEEUU.PNGAmerican Junior Champion - points race, scratch, 500-meter time trial, team sprint (with Colleen Hayduk )
2010

Cross country

2006
  • MaillotEEUU.PNG American Junior Champion - Cyclo-cross
2007
  • MaillotEEUU.PNG American Junior Champion - Cyclo-cross
2008
  • MaillotEEUU.PNG American Junior Champion - Cyclo-cross

Teams

Web links

Commons : Coryn Rivera  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fil-Am cyclist Coryn Rivera riding fast road to Rio. In: BusinessMirror. February 15, 2016, accessed March 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ Jen See: One of the Fast Girls: Coryn Rivera. In: podiumcafe.com. June 16, 2011. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rivera, Coryn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rivera, Coryn G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Garden Grove