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Chloé Dygert (born January 1, 1997) is an American professional
racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, 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 ...
, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She has won seven gold medals at the
UCI Track Cycling World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...
and a silver medal at the Olympic Games. She also won the Women's junior road race and Women's junior time trial at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships.


Career

Chloé Dygert was athletic from childhood on and played mainly basketball in her early years. However, she did not take cycling seriously until after a shoulder injury in 2013. After another injury she was forced to retire from basketball. In 2015 she became national junior champion, in road racing and individual time trial, as well as two-time Junior World Champion in the same disciplines. Then she received an invitation from the US cycling federation
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. In March 2016, Dygert started at the World Cup in
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as a member of the US four-in-four team pursuit and won the world title with the team. In the same year, nineteen-year-old Dygert was nominated to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she won a silver medal in the team pursuit. The 2016 Olympic Pursuit Team was marked by controversy. The head coach, Andy Sparks, was fired for fostering a hostile environment. Dygert supported Sparks and continued to work with him until 2018. At the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in
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, she became World Champion in the team pursuit for the second time, along with
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and Kimberly Geist and clinched the world title in the singles pursuit. In May 2017, she won her first Panamerican title, in the individual time trial on the road. At the
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, Dygert won two titles: along with
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and Kimberly Geist in the team pursuit and in the individual pursuit. She succeeded the victory in the individual pursuit in an outstanding manner: she set a world record two times in a row, in the qualification as well as in the final (3:20.060 minutes). Her record from the final caught the record of road cycling time-trial world champion, the Dutchwoman
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. In the
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in 2019 she won gold in the individual time trial. On September 24, 2020, at the
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, Dygert crashed during the women's time trial event, suffering a laceration to her left leg which required surgery. That November, Dygert signed a four-year contract with UCI Women's WorldTeam , from the 2021 season.


Personal life

In November 2016, she married fellow professional cyclist Logan Owen and took his surname. However, the marriage ended in divorce in January 2020. A 2020 profile by her sponsor Red Bull notes, "She is a staunch conservative...she does not believe in feminism." Dygert issued a public apology in November 2020 for social media conduct that was deemed inappropriate. Her "likes" of social media posts were widely perceived as racist and transphobic. Apart from Canyon-SRAM, the cycling brand Rapha stated that it "whole-heartedly condemns" her social media conduct and found her apology "insufficient." Rapha described her actions as "offensive, divisive, and have no place in cycling or society."


Career achievements


Major results


Road

;2013 : Amateur National Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::3rd Time trial ;2015 : UCI Junior Road World Championships ::1st Road race ::1st Time trial : Amateur National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st Time trial ;2016 : 6th Overall
Tour of California The Tour of California (officially sponsored as the Amgen Tour of California) was an annual professional road cycling stage race on the UCI World Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that ran from 2006 to 2019. It was the only event on the ...
::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stage 2 ( TTT) ;2017 : 1st Time trial, Pan American Road Championships : 4th
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 ...
,
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 ...
;2018 :
Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI Americ ...
::1st Stages 2 & 3 ( ITT) : 2nd Chrono Kristin Armstrong : 6th Overall
Joe Martin Stage Race Joe Martin Stage Race is a road cycling stage race held annually in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is part of the UCI America Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the ...
::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stage 4 ;2019 : 1st
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 ...
,
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 ...
: 1st
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 ...
,
Pan American Games The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held ...
: 1st Overall Colorado Classic ::1st Points classification ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 4 : 1st Overall
Joe Martin Stage Race Joe Martin Stage Race is a road cycling stage race held annually in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is part of the UCI America Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the ...
::1st Points classification ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stages 1 & 4 : 1st Chrono Kristin Armstrong : 2nd Overall
Tour of the Gila The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI Americ ...
::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stages 3 ( ITT) & 4 : Professional National Road Championships ::2nd Time trial ::4th Road race ;2021 : 1st
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


Track

;2016 : 1st Team pursuit,
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: 2nd
Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...
,
Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
;2017 :
UCI Track World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...
::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Team pursuit :
UCI Track World Cup The UCI Track Cycling World Cup (formerly known as the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics) is a multi race tournament held over a track cycling season - usually between October and February. Each series is divided into several rounds, each held i ...
::1st Individual pursuit – Los Angeles ::1st Team pursuit – Los Angeles ;2018 :
UCI Track World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...
::1st Team pursuit ::1st Individual pursuit ;2019 : 1st Team pursuit, Pan American Track Championships ;2020 :
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::1st Team pursuit ::1st Individual pursuit


World records


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dygert, Chloe 1997 births Living people American female cyclists American track cyclists Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2019 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in cycling Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in cycling Pan American Games medalists in cycling Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States People from Brownsburg, Indiana UCI Road World Champions (women) UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women) Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games 21st-century American women Cyclists from Indiana