Sara Penton
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.jpg) Penton at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Sara Marie Penton |
| Born | 15 November 1988 |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team | |
| 2015 | De Jonge Renner |
| Professional teams | |
| 2016 | Lares–Waowdeals |
| 2017–2019 | Team VéloCONCEPT[1] |
| 2020–2021 | Drops[2][3] |
Sara Marie Penton (born 15 November 1988) is a Swedish former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2016 and 2021 for the Lares–Waowdeals, Team Virtu Cycling and Drops–Le Col teams.
Career
[edit]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.[4] She had begun to take cycling seriously for the first time in 2011 whilst working in a bike shop, completing the 300-kilometre (190-mile) Vätternrundan sportive the same year.[5] In 2017, Penton won the Swedish National Road Race Championships, becoming the first rider other than Emma Johansson and Emilia Fahlin – neither of whom raced the 2017 edition – to win the race in seven years.[6] Penton retired from competition at the end of the 2021 season.[7]
Major results
[edit]- 2015
- 9th Trofee Maarten Wynants
- 9th Erondegemse Pijl
- 2017
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 2018
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Team Virtu Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Drops". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
- ^ "Drops-Le Col supported by Tempur". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
- ^ "About Sara". 29 September 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "Women's Cycling Profiles: Sara Penton". ProCyclingUK.
- ^ "National Road Championships – Sweden". UCI. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ Timms, Joe (18 October 2021). "Who is retiring from pro cycling in 2021?". Rouleur. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
External links
[edit]- Sara Penton at UCI
- Sara Penton at Cycling Archives
- Sara Penton at ProCyclingStats
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