Mara Abbott
Mara Abbott (2016) | |
To person | |
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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
- 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
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Stephen Puddicombe: 11 notable pro riders who have retired in 2016. In: Cycling Weekly. December 9, 2016, accessed December 9, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Abbott, Mara |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abbott, Mara Katherine (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1985 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulder , Colorado |