Lotta Pauliina Henttala (née Lepistö; born 28 June 1989) is a Finnish

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 rides for Finnish amateur team Henttala Development Team. She has won the

Finnish National Road Race Championships The Finnish National Road Race Championship is a cycling race where the Finnish cyclists decide who will become the champion for the year to come. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic cycling jersey, just like the national flag ...

seven times, consecutively between 2012 and 2018.

Career

She competed in swimming and triathlon alongside cycling in her youth, before focusing on cycling after becoming Finnish Under-16 road racing champion. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in

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. She qualified to represent Finland at the

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, but did not compete due to pregnancy. After not competing professionally during the 2022 season, Henttala will return to the professional peloton in 2023 with UCI Women's Continental Team .

Personal life

In October 2019, she married fellow professional cyclist

Joonas Henttala Joonas Henttala (born 17 September 1991) is a Finnish professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam UCI most commonly refers to: * University of California, Irvine, a public university in Irvine, California, United States * U ...

, and their first child – a son – was born in January 2022.

Major results

Source: ;2008 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd

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 ...

;2009 : National Road Championships ::2nd

::4th Road race : 8th

GP Stad Roeselare The GP Stad Roeselare is an elite women's road bicycle race held annually in Roeselare, Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordere ...

;2011 : 5th Road race, National Road Championships ;2012 : 1st MaillotFin

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Tour de Helsinki ;2013 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotFin

Road race ::2nd

: 1st De Pinte : 1st Lebbeke : 1st Festival Cycliste Preizerdaul ITT : 5th Overall Naisten etappiajo ::1st Stages 1 ( ITT) & 5 ;2014 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotFin

::1st

Road race : 2nd Frauen Prolog Grand Prix Gippingen : 2nd Kriterium Meilen : 2nd Kriterium Riehen : 3rd

Sparkassen Giro The Sparkassen Giro Bochum is a road bicycle race which is annually held for both men's and women's around an urban circuit in the German city of Bochum, Germany. Since 2005 the men's race is part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Ci ...

: 3rd GP Osterhas : 4th Trofee Maarten Wynants : 4th Para+Cycling : 6th Rund um Schönaich BS-Cup: 8th

GP Comune di Cornaredo The GP Comune di Cornaredo is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Italy and is currently rated by the UCI as a 1.2 race. Past winners References Cycle races in Italy Women's road bicycle races Rec ...

: 9th

Berner Rundfahrt Tour de Berne is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held in Berne, Switzerland with races for men and women. Men's event The men's event began in 1920 and has previously been a UCI 1.2 rated event on the UCI Europe Tour. Women' ...

: 10th SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn ;2015 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotFin

::1st

Road race : 1st Points classification

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 ...

: 3rd

: 3rd GP Oberbaselbiet : 4th

Grand Prix de Dottignies The Grand Prix de Dottignies is an elite women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country ...

: 4th Frauen Grand Prix Gippingen : 4th

: 5th

Tour of Chongming Island World Cup The Tour of Chongming Island International Cycling Race is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race held in Shanghai, China, named after Chongming Island. The Tour previously consisted of two races: a stage race and a one-day race ...

: 5th

La Course by Le Tour de France La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...

: 7th Overall

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::1st Stage 4 : 9th Novilon Eurocup ;2016 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotFin

::1st

Road race : 1st SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn : 1st Prologue

Emakumeen Euskal Bira The Emakumeen Euskal Bira was a women's cycling race held in the Basque Country, Spain. It was held annually from 1988 to 2019, starting out as a two-stage race and building up to five stages in 2007. One of these stages was always a double stag ...

: 1st Stage 5

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: 2nd

Open de Suède Vårgårda Open de Suède Vårgårda is an elite professional women's road bicycle event held annually in the Vårgårda Municipality of Sweden. Created in 2006, the Open de Suède Vårgårda was part of the UCI Women's Road World Cup until 2015 and sanc ...

::2nd Road race ::2nd Team time trial :

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 ...

::3rd

Road race ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ( ...

: 3rd

Omloop van het Hageland The Omloop van het Hageland (Tielt-Winge) is an elite women's professional road bicycle race held since 2007 in Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europ ...

: 3rd

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 UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI E ...

: 3rd Pajot Hills Classic : 8th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs ::1st Stage 1 ;2017 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotFin

::1st

Road race : 1st

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road bicycle racing, road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic cycle races, classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late ...

: Crescent Vårgårda ::1st Road race ::2nd Team time trial : 1st

Dwars door Vlaanderen Dwars door Vlaanderen ''( en, Across Flanders)'' is a semi-classic road bicycle race in Belgium, held annually since 1945. The race starts in Roeselare and finishes in Waregem, both in West Flanders. Since 2017 the event is included in the UCI W ...

: 1st Stage 6 Giro Rosa : 2nd Prudential RideLondon Classique : 3rd Bronze medal blank

: 4th

: 5th Drentse Acht van Westerveld : 6th Overall

Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. Since 2008 this event is on the UCI women's elite cycle racing ...

: 8th Road race, UEC European Road Championships : 8th Overall

Healthy Ageing Tour Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiz ...

: 8th Overall

Ladies Tour of Norway The Ladies Tour of Norway is a women's cycle stage race. The first edition of the race was held from 15 to 17 August 2014 based in the town of Halden in south east Norway. It consisted of an individual time trial prologue and two road race stages ...

;2018 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotFin

::1st

Road race : 1st Stage 5

: 1st Prologue Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini : Crescent Vårgårda ::3rd Road race ::3rd Team time trial : 4th Overall

Festival Elsy Jacobs The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. Since 2008 this event is on the UCI women's elite cycle racing c ...

: 5th Prudential RideLondon Classique : 8th

Amstel Gold Race The Amstel Gold Race is an annual one-day classic road cycling race held in the province of Limburg, Netherlands. It traditionally marks the turning point of the spring classics, with the climbers and stage racers replacing the cobbled classics r ...

: 10th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships ;2019 :

Setmana Ciclista Valenciana The Setmana Ciclista Valenciana is an annual professional road bicycle race Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, i ...

::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 2nd

: 4th

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: 7th Overall

::1st Stage 1 ;2020 : 7th

: 8th

Race Torquay Race Torquay is a one-day cycling race held annually in Australia since 2020. The race is held a few days before the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. It is rated as a 1.1 event on the UCI Oceania Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Henttala, Lotta 1989 births Living people Finnish female cyclists People from Noormarkku Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Finland Sportspeople from Satakunta