Emma Johansson

Emma Johansson

Emma Johansson (2013)
To person
Full name	Emma Karolina Johansson
Date of birth	September 23, 1983
nation	Sweden
discipline	Road / mountain bike
To the team
Current team	Wiggle High5
function	driver
End of career	2017
Most important successes
Olympic Summer Games 2016 - road racing 2008 - road racing UCI Road World Championships 2013 - road racing 2010, 2014 - road racing
Last updated: December 14, 2017

Emma Johansson in the individual time trial of the 2015 Road World Championships

Emma Karolina Johansson (born September 23, 1983 in Sollefteå ) is a former Swedish cyclist .

Athletic career

At the 2008 Olympic Games , Emma Johansson won the silver medal in road racing behind Britain's Nicole Cooke . At the 2007 road cycling world championships in Stuttgart , she was sixth. In October 2010 she finished third in the road race at the 2010 UCI Road World Championships in Geelong . In 2012 she started at the Olympic Games in London and finished sixth in the road race.

In 2013, Johansson was runner-up in road racing; in the same year she was UCI world rankings- first before Marianne Vos , who had dominated this ranking for six years. In 2014 she won bronze for third place. In 2016 she started the road race at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and won her second silver medal.

Emma Johansson ended her cycling career at the end of 2017 after she had hardly competed in her last season due to pregnancy.

Palmarès

Street

2001

• Swedish junior champion - road race

2005

• Swedish champion - time trial

2007

• Swedish champion - time trial

2008

• Swedish champion - time trial
• Olympic road race
• Trophée d'Or Féminin and a stage

2009

• Ronde van Drenthe
• one stage tour of Thuringia
• one stage Holland Ladies Tour

2010

• Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
• UCI Road World Championships 2010 - Road Races
• one stage tour of Thuringia
• Trophée d'Or Féminin and a stage

2011

• Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire
• Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
• Omloop van het Hageland
• a stage Emakumeen Bira
• a stage Giro del Trentino Alto Adige
• Swedish champion - road race
• Thuringia tour and one stage
• a stage Trophée d'Or Féminin

2012

• Tour de Free State and one stage
• Swedish champion - road race
• Swedish Champion - Individual Time Trial
• a stage of the Giro d'Italia Femminile

2013

• Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire
• Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik
• Emakumeen Bira and two stages
• Swedish champion - time trial
• Thuringia tour and two stages
• Prologue Route de France Féminine
• World Championship - Road Race

2014

• Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire
• Trofeo Alfredo Binda
• World Championship - Road Race
• BeNe Ladies Tour

2015

• International Thuringia Tour

2016

• Swedish Champion - Individual Time Trial
• Swedish champion - road race
• Olympic Games - Road Racing

Mountain bike

2000

• Swedish Junior Champion - Mountain Bike (XC)

2001

• Swedish Junior Champion - Mountain Bike (XC)

Teams

• 2006 Bizkaia-Panda Software-Durango
• 2007 Vlaanderen-Capri Sonne-T-Interim
• 2008 AA Drink Cycling Team
• 2009 RedSun Cycling Team
• 2010 Redsun Cycling Team
• 2011 Hitec Products-UCK
• 2012 Hitec Products-Mistral Home Cycling Team
• 2013 Orica-AIS
• 2014 Orica-AIS
• 2015 Orica-AIS
• 2016 Wiggle High5
• 2017 Wiggle High5

Web links

Commons : Emma Johansson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Emma Johansson in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Emma Johansson in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Emma Johansson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emma Johansson Blog: Almost Half Way. Wiggle High5, accessed December 14, 2017 .