Chloé Dygert

Chloé Dygert (born January 1, 1997) is an American professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She has won seven gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and a silver medal at the Olympic Games. She also won the Women's junior road race and Women's junior time trial at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships.
Career
Chloé Dygert was athletic from childhood on and played mainly basketball in her early years. However, she did not take cycling seriously until after a shoulder injury in 2013. After another injury she was forced to retire from basketball. In 2015 she became national junior champion, in road racing and individual time trial, as well as two-time Junior World Champion in the same disciplines. Then she received an invitation from the US cycling federation USA Cycling.
In March 2016, Dygert started at the World Cup in London as a member of the US four-in-four team pursuit and won the world title with the team. In the same year, nineteen-year-old Dygert was nominated to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she won a silver medal in the team pursuit.
The 2016 Olympic Pursuit Team was marked by controversy. The head coach, Andy Sparks, was fired for fostering a hostile environment. Dygert supported Sparks and continued to work with him until 2018.
At the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong, she became World Champion in the team pursuit for the second time, along with Kelly Catlin, Jennifer Valente and Kimberly Geist and clinched the world title in the singles pursuit. In May 2017, she won her first Panamerican title, in the individual time trial on the road.
At the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Dygert won two titles: along with Kelly Catlin, Jennifer Valente and Kimberly Geist in the team pursuit and in the individual pursuit. She succeeded the victory in the individual pursuit in an outstanding manner: she set a world record two times in a row, in the qualification as well as in the final (3:20.060 minutes). Her record from the final caught the record of road cycling time-trial world champion, the Dutchwoman Annemiek van Vleuten. In the Pan American Games in 2019 she won gold in the individual time trial.
On September 24, 2020, at the UCI Road World Championships, Dygert crashed during the women's time trial event, suffering a laceration to her left leg which required surgery. That November, Dygert signed a four-year contract with UCI Women's WorldTeam , from the 2021 season.
Personal life
In November 2016, she married fellow professional cyclist Logan Owen and took his surname. The marriage ended in divorce in January 2020.
Dygert issued a public apology in November 2020 for her social media conduct that was deemed inappropriate. The cycling brand Rapha condemned her endorsement of what it viewed as racist and transphobic posts on Twitter and found her apology insufficient. Rapha described her actions as "offensive, divisive, and have no place in cycling or society.
Career achievements
Major results
Road
2013
National Amateur Championships
3rd Road race
3rd Time trial
2015
UCI World Junior Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
National Amateur Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
2016
6th Overall Tour of California
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
2017
1st Time trial, Pan American Championships
4th Time trial, UCI World Championships
2018
Tour of the Gila
1st Stages 2 & 3 (ITT)
2nd Chrono Kristin Armstrong
6th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 4
2019
1st Time trial, UCI World Championships
1st Time trial, Pan American Games
1st Overall Colorado Classic
1st Points classification
1st Mountains classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 4
1st Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
1st Points classification
1st Mountains classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stages 1 & 4
1st Chrono Kristin Armstrong
2nd Overall Tour of the Gila
1st Young rider classification
1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 4
National Championships
2nd Time trial
4th Road race
2021
1st Time trial, National Championships
2023
1st Time trial, UCI World Championships
1st Road race, National Championships
Track
2016
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2nd Team pursuit, Olympic Games
2017
UCI World Championships
1st Individual pursuit
1st Team pursuit
UCI World Cup
1st Individual pursuit, Los Angeles
1st Team pursuit, Los Angeles
2018
UCI World Championships
1st Team pursuit
1st Individual pursuit
2019
1st Team pursuit, Pan American Championships
2020
UCI World Championships
1st Team pursuit
1st Individual pursuit
2023
UCI World Championships
1st Individual pursuit
World records
References
External links
1997 births
Living people
American female cyclists
American track cyclists
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in cycling
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in cycling
Pan American Games medalists in cycling
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
People from Brownsburg, Indiana
Sportspeople from the Indianapolis metropolitan area
UCI Road World Champions (women)
UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women)
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
21st-century American sportswomen
Cyclists from Indiana