# Lotta Henttala

Lotta Pauliina Henttala (née Lepistö; born 28 June 1989) is a Finnish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF Education–Oatly. She has won the Finnish National Road Race Championships 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 Florence. She qualified to represent Finland at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 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 AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step.
At the 2023 Tour de France Femmes, Henttala was disqualified after holding onto her team car; the directeur sportif 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 Time trial

### 2009

    National Road Championships
       2nd Time trial
       4th Road race
    8th GP Stad Roeselare

### 2011

    5th Road race, National Road Championships

### 2012

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Tour de Helsinki

### 2013

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       2nd Time trial
    1st De Pinte
    1st Lebbeke
    1st Festival Cycliste Preizerdaul ITT
    5th Overall Naisten etappiajo
       1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 5

### 2014

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Road race
    2nd Frauen Prolog Grand Prix Gippingen
    2nd Kriterium Meilen
    2nd Kriterium Riehen
    3rd Sparkassen Giro
    3rd GP Osterhas
    4th Trofee Maarten Wynants
    4th Para+Cycling
    6th Rund um Schönaich [LBS-Cup]
    8th GP Comune di Cornaredo
    9th Berner Rundfahrt
    10th SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn

### 2015

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Road race
    1st Points classification Auensteiner–Radsporttage
    3rd Berner Rundfahrt
    3rd GP Oberbaselbiet
    4th Grand Prix de Dottignies
    4th Frauen Grand Prix Gippingen
    4th Sparkassen Giro
    5th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup
    5th La Course by Le Tour de France
    7th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
       1st Stage 4
    9th Novilon Eurocup

### 2016

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Road race
    1st SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn
    1st Prologue Emakumeen Euskal Bira
    1st Stage 5 The Women's Tour
    2nd La Course by Le Tour de France
    Open de Suède Vårgårda
       2nd Road race
       2nd Team time trial
    UCI Road World Championships
       3rd Road race
       3rd Team time trial
    3rd Omloop van het Hageland
    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 Time trial
       1st Road race
    1st Gent–Wevelgem
    Crescent Vårgårda
       1st Road race
       2nd Team time trial
    1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
    1st Stage 6 Giro Rosa
    2nd Prudential RideLondon Classique
    3rd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    4th Omloop van het Hageland
    5th Drentse Acht van Westerveld
    6th Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
    8th Road race, UEC European Road Championships
    8th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
    8th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway

### 2018

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Road race
    1st Stage 5 The Women's Tour
    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 Amstel Gold Race
    10th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships

### 2019

    Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
       1st Stages 2 & 4
    2nd Omloop van het Hageland
    4th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
    7th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour
       1st Stage 1

### 2020

    7th Omloop van het Hageland
    8th Race Torquay

### 2024

    1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas
    5th Dwars door de Westhoek

### 2025

    1st Trofeo Marratxi-Felanitx