Personal information | |
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Born | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.[1] | September 3, 1977
Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)[1] |
Weight | 130 lb (59 kg)[1] |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road cycling, Mountain bike racing, Tandem Para-cycling[1] |
Amateur teams | |
2006 | DeFeet Women's Elite Team[1] |
2007 | Target Training Women's Elite[1] |
Professional teams | |
2008 | Cheerwine Women's Professional Cycling Team[1] |
2009 | ValueAct Capital Women's Pro Cycling[1] |
2010 | Team Vera Bradley Professional Cycling[1] |
2011-2013 | NOW and Novartis for MS[2][3] |
2015- | BMW p/b Happy Tooth Dental[4][5] |
Major wins | |
2011 National Road Race Champion, Overall GC win 2008 Joe Martin Stage Race and multiple other stages and criteriums, In 2017 she won a national championship in Para Cycling by piloting a tandem on the track (with stoker Shawn Cheshire). |
Robin Farina (born September 3, 1977) is a road cyclist from the United States. She made her road racing debut in 2006,[1] transitioning from a mountain biking background.[6] She won in 2011 the United States National Road Race Championships. She represented her country at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships and 2011 Pan American Games.[7] With her team BMW p/b Happy Tooth Dental she participated in the team time trial at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships.
In 2013, Farina and Janel Holcomb co-founded the Women's Cycling Association, a United States-based lobby group of professional cyclists and other supporters, established to create a unified voice that could raise the profile and financial viability of women's professional cycling.[8][9] Farina served as Team Director of the Happy Tooth Dental Professional Racing team during the 2016 season.[10]
2011 United States National Road Race Championships (Georgia, USA)
2017 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
2016 Lost & Found Gravel Road Race
2015 Lost & Found Gravel Road Race