Leah Thomas (born May 30, 1989) 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 .

Early life

Thomas grew up as a competitive gymnast in the Bay Area. She competed in Central Coast Section for

Monta Vista High School Monta Vista High School is a four-year Public school (government funded), public high school located in the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino, California, Cupertino, California, US. Part of the Fremont Union High School District, the school serves ...

Thomas graduated from Monta Vista High School in 2007 and from Northwestern University in 2011. She began running during her time at Northwestern, but due to injury, she was forced to stop. She began cycling shortly thereafter. In 2013 she moved to northeastern Arizona to teach, and she began to delve deeper into cycling there. She moved back to the Bay Area in 2014 to ride and live with her parents.

Major results

;2016 : 4th Overall

Cascade Cycling Classic The Cascade Cycling Classic was the longest running elite road bicycle racing stage race in the United States (1980–2019), with 2018 being the only year the race was not held. The race took place in the Central Oregon region and was based in ...

: 5th Overall

Tour of California The Tour of California (officially sponsored as the Amgen Tour of California) was an annual professional road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race on the UCI World Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that ran from 2006 to 2019. It was the ...

::1st Stage 2 (TTT) ;2017 : 2nd Winston Salem Cycling Classic : 3rd Overall

Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche is a women's staged cycle race which takes place in the Ardèche region in southeastern France. The race was rated by the UCI as a 2.2 race, until 2018 when it was promoted to 2.1 status. Fo ...

::1st

Combination classification : 3rd 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 America ...

::1st Stage 3 (ITT) : National Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::3rd

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 ...

: 4th 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 ...

: 5th

Chrono Gatineau Chrono Gatineau is an elite women's professional one-day time trial held in Canada and is currently rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 1.1 race. In the same week, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau Grand Prix cycliste de Gat ...

;2018 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: 1st

Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen The Chrono Champenois is a European individual time trial bicycle race held around Bétheny in France, in the Champagne region. The race has been organised as a 1.2 event since 1989 for women's and since 1998 there is also a men's race which is ...

: 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Valley of the Sun : 3rd Overall

: 3rd 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 ...

: 5th

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 ...

: 8th Overall

;2019 : 1st Gold medal blank

Time trial, Pan American Road Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Women's Tour of Scotland A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or Adolescence, adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female hum ...

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 3 : 1st

Chrono des Nations Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendée is a single-day individual time trial road bicycle race held annually in October in Les Herbiers, Vendée, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It was orig ...

;2021 : 1st Jersey pink

Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 3rd

, National Road Championships : 4th

Brabantse Pijl The Brabantse Pijl ( en, Brabant Arrow, french: italic=yes, Flèche Brabançonne or ''Flèche Branconne'') is a Flanders Classics road bicycle race held annually in Flemish Brabant and in Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Since 2005, the race has been or ...

References

External links

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Leah Thomas's Strava Profile
1989 births Living people American female cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic cyclists of the United States Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century American women Cyclists from California Sportspeople from Santa Clara, California {{US-cycling-bio-stub

Early life

Major results

See also

References

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