Chloé Dygert

Chloé Dygert

Dygert in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Chloé Dygert
Born	January 1, 1997 Brownsburg, Indiana, United States
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight	147 lb (67 kg)
Team information
Current team	Canyon–SRAM
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time trialist (road) Pursuitist (track)
Amateur team
2020	Twenty20 Pro Cycling
Professional teams
2016–2019	TWENTY16–Ridebiker
2021–	Canyon–SRAM
Major wins
One-day races and Classics World Time Trial Championships (2019, 2023) National Time Trial Championships (2021, 2023)
Medal record Representing the United States Women's track cycling Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team pursuit 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit World Championships 2016 London Team pursuit 2017 Hong Kong Individual pursuit 2017 Hong Kong Team pursuit 2018 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2020 Berlin Individual pursuit 2020 Berlin Team pursuit 2023 Glasgow Individual pursuit Pan American Games 2019 Lima Team pursuit Women's road bicycle racing World Championships 2015 Richmond Time trial (junior) 2015 Richmond Road race (junior) 2019 Harrogate Time trial 2023 Glasgow Time trial Pan American Games 2019 Lima Time trial

Chloé Dygert (; born January 1, 1997) is an American professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM. 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 Canyon–SRAM, 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

Track

World records

Event	Record	Date	Meet	Location	Ref
Individual pursuit	3:17.283	February 29, 2020	World Championships	Berlin, Germany
	3:16.937