Lotta Henttala

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 . 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 .
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
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
Finnish female cyclists
People from Noormarkku
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Finland
Sportspeople from Satakunta