Anna Plichta (born 10 February 1992) is a Polish former

racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling s ...

, who rode professionally between 2016 and 2021 for five different teams. She rode at the

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

every year between

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and

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, and also represented Poland at the 2015 European Games in the women's road race and women's time trial.

Career

In September 2016 she was announced as part of the squad for 2017. Plichta was meant to join Belgian team in 2018, but the team was disbanded in late October 2017 when their title sponsor Lensworld's new parent company, LensOnline decided to not continue sponsorship of the cycling team. After it was announced that

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would leave at the end of 2017 to concentrate on cyclo-cross, Plichta was offered the position on in early November 2017. Ahead of the 2021 season, Plichta joined the team on a two-year contract, however she retired at the end of 2021.

Personal life

Her favourite place to ride is the Polish mountains.

Major results

;2014 : 4th

GP du Canton d'Argovie Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (german: Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau) is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of ...

: 10th Overall Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen ::1st Jersey light blue

Young rider classification ;2015 : 3rd Overall

Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska (Tour de Feminin – Krásná Lípa) is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Euro ...

: 7th Overall

Belgium Tour The Lotto Belgium Tour is an elite women's professional road bicycle stage race, held in Belgium since 2012. In the first year the tour consisted of three stages and grew with a team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race ...

: 9th Overall

Auensteiner–Radsporttage Auensteiner–Radsporttage was a women's cycle race that took place in Germany, and was previously rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale The ''Union Cycliste Internationale'' (UCI; ; en, International Cycling Union) is the world gover ...

;2016 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall

: 5th Overall

Tour of Zhoushan Island Tour of Zhoushan Island is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in China and is currently rated by the UCI as 2.2. Winners References Cycle races in China Women's road bicycle races Spring (season) events in China {{ ...

;2017 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships ;2019 : 1st MaillotPolonia

Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

, National Road Championships : 4th Overall

Gracia–Orlová Gracia–Orlová is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic and in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. It was created in 1987. Since 2004, it starts in Dětmarovice. A mountain stag ...

: 7th Overall

Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta La Vuelta Femenina (; "The Female Tour") is an elite women's professional bicycle race held in Spain. The race is organised by and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), which also organises the men's Vuelta a España. It is part of the UCI Women' ...

;2020 : 1st MaillotPolonia

, National Road Championships : 7th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Plichta, Anna 1992 births Living people Polish female cyclists People from Wadowice Cyclists at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Poland Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Poland Sportspeople from Lesser Poland Voivodeship 21st-century Polish sportswomen