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Lotta Henttala
Lotta Pauliina Henttala (née Lepistö; born 28 June 1989) is a Finnish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF Education–Cannondale.[7] She has won the Finnish National Road Race Championships seven times, consecutively between 2012 and 2018.
Henttala at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Lotta Pauliina Henttala | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Lotta Pauliina Lepistö 28 June 1989 Noormarkku, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | EF Education–Cannondale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2022 | Henttala Development Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2018 | Bigla Cycling Team[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Trek–Segafredo[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling[4][5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step[6] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | EF Education–Cannondale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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UCI Women's WorldTour
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Medal record
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Career edit
She competed in swimming and triathlon alongside cycling in her youth, before focusing on cycling after becoming Finnish Under-16 road racing champion.[1] She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence.[8] She qualified to represent Finland at the 2020 Summer Olympics,[9] but did not compete due to pregnancy.[10] After not competing professionally during the 2022 season, Henttala will return to the professional peloton in 2023 with UCI Women's Continental Team AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step.[11]
At the 2023 Tour de France Femmes, Henttala was disqualified after holding onto her team car; the directeur sportif of the team was also asked to leave the race.[12] Henttala and AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step later refuted the claims of the commissaires, stating that she "held onto a water bottle for a few seconds but did not hang onto the team car".[13]
Personal life edit
In October 2019, she married fellow professional cyclist Joonas Henttala,[14] and their first child – a son – was born in January 2022.[15]
Major results edit
Source:[16]
- 2008
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 2009
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 4th Road race
- 8th GP Stad Roeselare
- 2011
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 2012
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Tour de Helsinki
- 2013
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st De Pinte
- 1st Lebbeke
- 1st Festival Cycliste Preizerdaul ITT
- 5th Overall Naisten etappiajo
- 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 5
- 2014
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Frauen Prolog Grand Prix Gippingen
- 2nd Kriterium Meilen
- 2nd Kriterium Riehen
- 3rd Sparkassen Giro
- 3rd GP Osterhas
- 4th Trofee Maarten Wynants
- 4th Para+Cycling
- 6th Rund um Schönaich [LBS-Cup]
- 8th GP Comune di Cornaredo
- 9th Berner Rundfahrt
- 10th SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn
- 2015
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 1st Road race
- 1st Points classification Auensteiner–Radsporttage
- 3rd Berner Rundfahrt
- 3rd GP Oberbaselbiet
- 4th Grand Prix de Dottignies
- 4th Frauen Grand Prix Gippingen
- 4th Sparkassen Giro
- 5th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup
- 5th La Course by Le Tour de France
- 7th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 1st Stage 4
- 9th Novilon Eurocup
- 2016
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 1st Road race
- 1st SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn
- 1st Prologue Emakumeen Euskal Bira
- 1st Stage 5 The Women's Tour
- 2nd La Course by Le Tour de France
- Open de Suède Vårgårda
- 2nd Road race
- 2nd Team time trial
- UCI Road World Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 3rd Team time trial
- 3rd Omloop van het Hageland
- 3rd Chrono des Nations
- 3rd Pajot Hills Classic
- 8th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs
- 1st Stage 1
- 2017
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 1st Road race
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem
- Crescent Vårgårda
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Team time trial
- 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 1st Stage 6 Giro Rosa
- 2nd Prudential RideLondon Classique
- 3rd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 4th Omloop van het Hageland
- 5th Drentse Acht van Westerveld
- 6th Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
- 8th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
- 8th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
- 8th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway
- 2018
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 1st Road race
- 1st Stage 5 The Women's Tour
- 1st Prologue Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
- Crescent Vårgårda
- 3rd Road race
- 3rd Team time trial
- 4th Overall Festival Elsy Jacobs
- 5th Prudential RideLondon Classique
- 8th Amstel Gold Race
- 10th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
- 2019
- Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
- 1st Stages 2 & 4
- 2nd Omloop van het Hageland
- 4th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
- 7th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
- 1st Stage 1
- 2020
- 7th Omloop van het Hageland
- 8th Race Torquay
References edit
- ^ a b . Bigla Pro Cycling Team. Archived from the original on 7 June 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ^ "Lotta Lepistö". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ^ "Trek-Segafredo announce official 2019 rosters for men and women". Trek Bicycle Corporation. Intrepid Corporation. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- ^ . UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "14 riders, 11 re-signings, 9 nationalities, and 3 new riders complete the roster for CERATIZIT WNT Pro Cycling for 2021". Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling. Ceratizit Deutschland GmbH. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ . UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ "EF Education - Cannondale". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ (PDF). Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ "Tokio 2020: Suomen joukkueen olympiapaikat, karsintojen aikataulut ja kisoihin valitut urheilijat". mtvuutiset.fi (in Finnish). 22 March 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
- ^ Porvari, Riku; Kössö, Tuulia (7 July 2021). "Ammattipyöräilijä Lotta Henttala odottaa esikoistaan, eikä lähde Tokion olympialaisiin – "Voin sitten mennä seuraaviin, jos siltä tuntuu"" [Professional cyclist Lotta Henttala is expecting her firstborn and won't go to the Tokyo Olympics – "Then I can go to the next ones if it feels like it"]. Yle (in Finnish). Yleisradio Oy. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ Ronald, Issy (12 September 2022). "Lotta Henttala returns to racing with AG Insurance-NXTG after maternity leave". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- ^ Frattini, Kirsten (28 July 2023). "Lotta Henttala disqualified from Tour de France Femmes". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
The race jury has disqualified Lotta Henttala for reportedly holding onto the team car during stage 6 at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift into Blagnac. AG Insurance-Soudal-QuickStep's director sportif Servais Knaven, who was driving the team vehicle at the time, has also reportedly been excluded from the race.
- ^ Frattini, Kirsten (29 July 2023). "Lotta Henttala: I did not hold on to the car". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- ^ Valli, Jussi (26 October 2019). "Häähumua! Pyöräilijä Lotta Lepistön häistä julkaistiin upea ajokuva – koirillakin rusetti kaulassa" [Wedding festivities! Cyclist Lotta Lepistö's wedding featured a great movie – even dogs with a bow on the neck]. Iltalehti (in Finnish). Alma Media. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ Taipale, Juuso (13 January 2022). "Poika tuli! Lotta ja Joonas Henttala saivat perheenlisäystä" [The boy came! Lotta and Joonas Henttala received family support]. Iltalehti (in Finnish). Alma Media. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ "Lotta Henttala". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
External links edit
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