Lotta Henttala
Henttala at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships.
Personal information
Full nameLotta Pauliina Henttala
BornLotta Pauliina Lepistö
(1989-06-28) 28 June 1989 (age 34)
Noormarkku, Finland
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Team information
Current teamAG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter[1]
Amateur team
2022Henttala Development Team
Professional teams
2014–2018Bigla Cycling Team[2]
2019–2020Trek–Segafredo[3]
2021Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling[4][5]
2023–AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step
Major wins
UCI Women's WorldTour
Gent–Wevelgem (2017)
Open de Suède Vårgårda (2017)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2012–2018)
National Time Trial Championships (2014–2018)
Dwars door Vlaanderen (2017)
Medal record
Women's road cycling
Representing  Finland
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Doha Road race
Representing Cervélo–Bigla Pro Cycling
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Doha Team time trial
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Bergen Team time trial
Henttala in the 2015 World Championship time trial

Lotta Pauliina Henttala (née Lepistö; born 28 June 1989) is a Finnish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step.[6] 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.[1] She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence.[7] She qualified to represent Finland at the 2020 Summer Olympics,[8] but did not compete due to pregnancy.[9] 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.[10]

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.[11] 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".[12]

Personal life

In October 2019, she married fellow professional cyclist Joonas Henttala,[13] and their first child – a son – was born in January 2022.[14]

Major results

Source:[15]

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

  1. ^ a b "Lotta Lepistö". Bigla Pro Cycling Team. Archived from the original on 7 June 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Lotta Lepistö". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Trek-Segafredo announce official 2019 rosters for men and women". Trek Bicycle Corporation. Intrepid Corporation. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Ceratizit – WNT Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  5. ^ "14 riders, 11 re-signings, 9 nationalities, and 3 new riders complete the roster for CERATIZIT WNT Pro Cycling for 2021". Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling. Ceratizit Deutschland GmbH. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  6. ^ "AG INSURANCE – SOUDAL QUICK-STEP TEAM". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Final Results / Résultats finaux: Road Race Women Elite / Course en ligne femmes élite" (PDF). Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  8. ^ "Tokio 2020: Suomen joukkueen olympiapaikat, karsintojen aikataulut ja kisoihin valitut urheilijat". mtvuutiset.fi (in Finnish). 22 March 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  9. ^ Porvari, Riku; Kössö, Tuulia (7 July 2021). "Ammattipyöräilijä Lotta Henttala odottaa esikoistaan, eikä lähde Tokion olympialaisiin – "Voin sitten mennä seuraaviin, jos siltä tuntuu"" [Professional cyclist Lotta Henttala is expecting her firstborn and won't go to the Tokyo Olympics – "Then I can go to the next ones if it feels like it"]. Yle (in Finnish). Yleisradio Oy. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  10. ^ Ronald, Issy (12 September 2022). "Lotta Henttala returns to racing with AG Insurance-NXTG after maternity leave". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  11. ^ Frattini, Kirsten (28 July 2023). "Lotta Henttala disqualified from Tour de France Femmes". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 29 July 2023. The race jury has disqualified Lotta Henttala for reportedly holding onto the team car during stage 6 at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift into Blagnac. AG Insurance-Soudal-QuickStep's director sportif Servais Knaven, who was driving the team vehicle at the time, has also reportedly been excluded from the race.
  12. ^ Frattini, Kirsten (29 July 2023). "Lotta Henttala: I did not hold on to the car". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  13. ^ Valli, Jussi (26 October 2019). "Häähumua! Pyöräilijä Lotta Lepistön häistä julkaistiin upea ajokuva – koirillakin rusetti kaulassa" [Wedding festivities! Cyclist Lotta Lepistö's wedding featured a great movie – even dogs with a bow on the neck]. Iltalehti (in Finnish). Alma Media. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  14. ^ Taipale, Juuso (13 January 2022). "Poika tuli! Lotta ja Joonas Henttala saivat perheenlisäystä" [The boy came! Lotta and Joonas Henttala received family support]. Iltalehti (in Finnish). Alma Media. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  15. ^ "Lotta Henttala". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 24 December 2022.

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