Sara Marie Penton (born 15 November 1988) is a Swedish former professional
racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2016 and 2021 for the , and teams.
Career
A former football player who retired from that sport at around 18 years old in 2006 due to medical issues with her knees, Penton started her first cycling race in 2013. She had begun to take cycling seriously for the first time in 2011 whilst working in a bike shop, completing the Vätternrundan sportive the same year. In 2017, Penton won the
Swedish National Road Race Championships, becoming the first rider other than
Emma Johansson and
Emilia Fahlin
Emilia Fahlin (born 24 October 1988) is a Swedish road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Fahlin has won the Swedish National Road Race Championships three times (2008, 2013, 2018) and the Swedish National Time Tria ...
– neither of whom raced the 2017 edition – to win the race in seven years. Penton retired from competition at the end of the 2021 season.
Major results
;2015
: 9th
Trofee Maarten Wynants
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: 9th
Erondegemse Pijl
Erondegemse Pijl (also known as Erpe-Mere) is an elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's professional one-day road bicycle race held in Belgium and is currently rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI as a 1.2 race.
Past winner ...
;2017
: 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
;2018
: 3rd
Road race, National Road Championships
See also
*
List of 2016 UCI Women's Teams and riders
References
External links
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1988 births
Living people
Swedish female cyclists
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Swedish women
21st-century Swedish women
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