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

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 spo ...

, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental 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 . At the 2023 Tour de France Femmes, Henttala was disqualified after holding onto her team car; the ''

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'' of the team was also asked to leave the race. Henttala and AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step later refuted the claims of the commissaires, stating that she "held onto a water bottle for a few seconds but did not hang onto the team car".

Personal life

In October 2019, she married fellow professional cyclist Joonas Henttala, and their first child – a son – was born in January 2022.

Major results

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

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;2009 : National Road Championships ::2nd

::4th Road race : 8th GP Stad Roeselare ;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

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: 3rd GP Osterhas : 4th Trofee Maarten Wynants : 4th Para+Cycling : 6th Rund um Schönaich BS-Cup: 8th GP Comune di Cornaredo : 9th

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: 10th

SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn The SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn is a women's one-day road bicycle race held in Switzerland. Between 2015 and 2019, it was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale The Union Cycliste Internationale (; UCI; ) is the world governing body for s ...

;2015 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotFin

::1st

Road race : 1st Points classification Auensteiner–Radsporttage : 3rd

: 3rd GP Oberbaselbiet : 4th Grand Prix de Dottignies : 4th Frauen Grand Prix Gippingen : 4th

: 5th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup : 5th

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: 7th Overall

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

::1st

Road race : 1st

: 1st Prologue

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: 1st Stage 5

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: 2nd

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

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::3rd

Road race ::3rd Bronze medal blank

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: 3rd

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: 3rd Chrono des Nations : 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

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

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: 1st Stage 6

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: 2nd Prudential RideLondon Classique : 3rd Bronze medal blank

: 4th

: 5th Drentse Acht van Westerveld : 6th Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs : 8th Road race,

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: 8th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour : 8th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway ;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 : 5th Prudential RideLondon Classique : 8th

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: 10th Time trial,

;2019 :

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::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 2nd

: 4th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne : 7th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour ::1st Stage 1 ;2020 : 7th

: 8th Race Torquay ;2024 : 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas : 5th

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;2025 : 1st Trofeo Marratxi-Felanitx

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Henttala, Lotta 1989 births Living people Finnish female cyclists People from Noormarkku Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Finland Sportspeople from Satakunta Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Germany 21st-century Finnish sportswomen