Emma White (cyclist)
Emma White (2020) | |
To person | |
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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 | |
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 .
successes
train
- 2019
- Pan American Championship - Team Pursuit (with Lily Williams , Kendall Ryan and Christina Birch )
- Pan American Championship - Individual Pursuit
- World Cup in Minsk - team pursuit (with Jennifer Valente , Chloé Dygert and Christina Birch )
- 2020
- World Cup in Milton - Team Pursuit (with Jennifer Valente , Chloé Dygert and Lily Williams )
- World Champion - Team Pursuit (with Jennifer Valente , Chloé Dygert and Lily Williams )
Street
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- Junior World Championship - individual time trial, road racing
- 2017
- one stage Tour of the Gila
- 2018
- one stage Tour of the Gila
- 2019
Cross country
- 2015
- 2017
- 2018
Web links
- Emma White in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Emma White in the ProCyclingStats.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jessica Coulon: Emma White Becomes Youngest Woman Ever to Win National Criterium. In: bicycling.com. July 1, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Emma White. In: USA Cycling. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | White, Emma |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1997 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Duanesburg , New York |