Megan Guarnier

Megan Guarnier

Megan Guarnier (2018)
To person
Date of birth	May 4th 1985
nation	United States
discipline	Road cycling
To the team
Current team	Boels Dolmans
function	driver
End of career	2018
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships 2015 - road race UCI Women's WorldTour 2016 overall ranking 2015, 2016 overall ranking Giro d'Italia Femminile 2015 overall ranking California Tour
Last updated: September 17, 2018

Megan Guarnier (born May 4, 1985 in Glens Falls ) is a former American cyclist .

Athletic career

Megan Guarnier, whose ancestors come from Italy , comes from a sporty family. She and her brother, two years older than her, did a lot of sport and both became nationally successful swimmers . The brother fell while training on his bike and had to end his athletic career.

In 2010 Megan Guarnier received her first contract with TIBCO-To The Top . The following year she won the Giro della Toscana Femminile , and in 2012 she was American road racing champion .

2015 was Guarnier's most successful year to date: Among other things, she won the first Strade Bianche for women in Tuscany , won the Tour of Norway , became national road racing champion and finished third in the World Championship road race in Richmond . The following year 2016 began just as successfully for her when she won the California Tour . Among other things, she won the Giro d'Italia Femminile and was the winner of the UCI Women's WorldTour at the end of the season .

Megan Guarnier's greatest success in 2017 was winning the silver medal in the team time trial at the Road World Championships in Bergen, Norway together with the riders of the Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam . A few days later she started in a street race where she was involved in a fall that broke her jaw. A titanium plate had to be inserted into her during an operation .

In August 2018, Guarnier announced that she would end her active career at the end of the season. Before that, she had won the Tour de Yorkshire in May of that year .

Professional

Megan Guarnier graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont with a Bachelor of Arts ( summa cum laude ) degree in neuroscience .

successes

2011

• Overall ranking Giro della Toscana Femminile

2012

• American road racing champion

2014

• Pan American Championships - Road Racing
• Pan American Championships - Individual Time Trial
• US Championships - Road Racing

2015

• Team Time Trial New Zealand Women's Tour
• Strade Bianche
• American road racing champion
• a stage Emakumeen Bira
• a stage and points classification Giro d'Italia Femminile
• Overall ranking and one stage Tour of Norway
• World Championships - Road Racing

2016

• Emakumeen Saria
• a stage Emakumeen Bira
• Overall ranking and a stage California tour
• American road racing champion
• Philadelphia Cycling Classic
• Overall ranking and points classification Giro d'Italia Femminile
• General Classification - UCI Women's WorldTour

2017

• one stage Amgen Breakaway from Heart Disease Women's Race empowered with SRAM
• a stage of the Giro d'Italia Femminile
• one stage Ladies Tour of Norway
• World Championship - Team Time Trial

2018

• General classification, mountain classification and a stage Tour de Yorkshire

Teams

• 2010–2011 TIBCO-To The Top
• 2013 Rabobank Women Cycling Team
• 2014 Boels Dolmans cycling team
• 2015 Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam
• 2016 Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam
• 2017 Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam
• 2018 Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam

Web links

Commons : Megan Guarnier  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Megan Guarnier in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Megan Guarnier in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Imelda March: Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News. In: dailypeloton.com. March 1, 2012, accessed April 26, 2015 . 
2. ^ Guarnier out of hospital after Worlds crash. In: Cycling News. September 26, 2017, accessed September 27, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Guarnier keeps promises to her mother and stops. In: radsport-news.com. August 28, 2018. Retrieved August 29, 2018 .