Emma White (cyclist)

Emma White
	Emma White (2020)
To person
Date of birth	August 23, 1997
nation	United States
discipline	Track (endurance) / road / cyclo-cross racing
To the team
Current team	Rally Cycling Women
Team (s)
2016–	Rally Cycling Women
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2020 - Team Pursuit
	Last updated: March 6, 2020

Emma White (born August 23, 1997 in Duanesburg , New York ) is an American cyclist who is active on track and road as well as cross-country races.

Athletic career

Emma White had her first successes when she became US youth champion in 2013 and junior champion in the individual time trial the following year . In 2015, she took second place in the road races of the juniors at the road world championships in both road races and individual time trials. At the same time, she started successfully in cyclo-cross races . In this discipline, she was US Junior Champion in 2105, U23 Champion at the Pan American Championships in 2017 and national U23 Champion the following year. At the 2017 cyclocross world championships in Beles , Luxembourg , she finished eighth in the U23 race. At the 2018 Cyclocross World Championships in Valkenburg , the Netherlands , she was seventh in the U23. In July 2019, she became the youngest female driver in the US elite in the criterion .

Starting in 2019, White became increasingly active in track cycling. With Lily Williams , Kendall Ryan and Christina Birch , she won silver in the team and bronze in the single pursuit at the Pan-American track championships . In a different composition ( Jennifer Valente , Chloé Dygert and Birch) the four-man won gold at the first run of the Track World Cup in Minsk - team pursuit (with Jennifer Valente, Chloé Dygert and Christina Birch) and in spring 2020 the sixth run with Valente, Dybert and Williams.

In February 2020 the successful quartet became world champions in the team pursuit in Berlin after the four had finished seventh the year before .

family

White is one of five siblings; she started cycling at the age of nine. Her older brother Curtis White is also a cyclist and rode with her on the same team, Rally Cycling , from 2016 .