Mara Abbott

Mara Abbott

Mara Abbott (2016)
To person
Full name	Mara Katherine Abbott
Date of birth	November 14, 1985
nation	United States
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
End of career	2016
Last updated: February 4, 2018

Mara Katherine Abbott (born November 14, 1985 in Boulder , Colorado ) is a former American cyclist . She competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics for the United States .

Athletic career

In 2007 and 2010, Mara Abbott was American road champion, and in 2007 she won the Tour of the Gila . In 2010 and 2013 she won the overall ranking of the Giro d'Italia Femminile . Abbott has won the Bob Cook Memorial Mount Evans Hill Climb five times (as of 2017).

After the 2011 season, Abbott took a long break from competition because she suffered from an eating disorder. She had problems coping with the pressure and felt a stranger as an American on an Italian team. She became so thin that she refused to be photographed for her then Diadora-Pasta Zara team .

In 2016 she started in the road race of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished fourth. She ended her cycling career at the end of the 2016 season. She had previously reported in an interview that despite her success, she earned so little that she had to work on a farm in winter.

successes

2007

• American road racing champion
• Overall victory and a stage Tour of the Gila
• a Redlands Bicycle Classic stage

2008

• a stage and team time trial Giro della Toscana Femminile
• one stage Tour de Feminin - Krásná Lípa
• a Redlands Bicycle Classic stage

2009

• a stage of the Giro d'Italia Femminile

2010

• Overall victory and two stages of the Giro d'Italia Femminile
• a stage Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
• American road racing champion

2013

• Overall victory and two stages of the Giro d'Italia Femminile

2014

• Overall victory and a stage Vuelta Ciclista Femenina a el Salvador

2015

• Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour of the Gila
• a stage of the Giro d'Italia Femminile

2016

• a stage of the Giro d'Italia Femminile

Teams

• 2008–2009 Team Columbia women's team
• 2011 Diadora pasta Zara
• 2013 Exergy Twenty16
• 2014 UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team
• 2015 Wiggle Honda
• 2016 Wiggle High5

Web links

Commons : Mara Abbott  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Mara Abbott in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Mara Abbott in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Mara Abbott in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Helen Pidd: Mara Abbott fighting anorexia and financial chasm as she chases third Giro. In: theguardian.com. August 23, 2016. Retrieved January 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Stephen Puddicombe: 11 notable pro riders who have retired in 2016. In: Cycling Weekly. December 9, 2016, accessed December 9, 2016 .