Mara Abbott
Abbott at the 2016 Le Samyn des Dames | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Mara Katherine Abbott |
Born |
Boulder, Colorado, United States | November 14, 1985
Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[1] |
Weight | 115 lb (52 kg)[1] |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Climbing specialist[2] |
Amateur team(s) | |
2015 | LA Sweat |
Professional team(s) | |
2007 | Webcor Builders |
2008–2009 | HTC-Highroad Women |
2010 | Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12 |
2011 | Diadora-Pasta Zara |
2013 | Exergy TWENTY16 |
2014 | UnitedHealthcare Women’s Team |
2015–2016 | Wiggle High5 |
Major wins | |
Stage races
One day races
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Infobox last updated on 9 May 2016 |
Mara Katherine Abbott (born November 14, 1985) is a U.S. professional women's bicycle racer who rides on the Wiggle High5 team. In 2010, Abbott became the first U.S. cyclist ever to win the Giro Donne, one of the Grand Tours of women's bicycle racing. Abbott retired after the 2016 Olympic Games road race.[3]
Early life and amateur career
Abbott was born in and, as of 2016, still lives in Boulder, Colorado.[1] She was a competitive swimmer, primarily specializing in distance freestyle races, at Whitman College, which is where she took up road bicycle racing as a springtime activity.[4] After competing for Whitman in two straight National College Cycling Association Division II championships, where the team won back-to-back championships in both the team time trial and the team omnium, and Abbott won back-to-back championships in the road race and also won the criterium and the individual omnium in 2006, Abbott placed fifth in the USA National Championship Women's Road Race. She also won back-to-back championships in the Mount Evans Hill Climb in 2005 and 2006.
Professional career
Abbott turned professional in 2007 and joined the Webcor Builders team.[5] In addition to a repeat of her college successes, she won one stage and the overall title in the Tour of the Gila and the 2007 National Cycling Championships women's road race championship, defeating former champions Kristin Armstrong and Amber Neben in a sprint to the finish.[6] She also continued to swim for Whitman in the fall and graduated with a degree in economics from Whitman.[1][7]
Abbott joined the HTC-Columbia Women's Team in 2008 and began to excel in European races, winning a mountain stage in the Giro della Toscana.[8] The next year, she won stage 3 and the King of the Mountains jersey in the Giro Donne, finishing second overall.[1] In 2010, Abbott joined the Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12 team and repeated her victories at the Tour of the Gila and the USA NAtional Championship Women's Road Race.[1] She won two more stages and the overall championship at the Giro Donne, which was the only women's Grand Tour event held in 2010.[9][10] That same month, she won one stage and the overall title at the Cascade Cycling Classic.[11] She also won one stage and finished second in the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin.[12][13]
For 2011, Abbott moved to the Diadora-Pasta Zara-Manhattan team.[14] She won one stage and finished second overall in the Tour of the Gila, behind 1996 Canadian Olympic medalist Clara Hughes.[15][16]
In 2013, Abbot won her second Giro Rosa.[17] Later that season it was announced that she would join the new UnitedHealthcare Women’s Team in 2014.[18]
On October 7 Wiggle High5 announced that Abbott has signed with them for the 2015 season.[19]
Off the bike
In addition to cycling, Abbott is a yoga instructor.[20]
Palmares
Source:[21]
- 2005
- 3rd U23 National Road Cycling Championships
- 2006
- 3rd Overall Mount Hood Classic
- 2007
- 1st
Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st
National Road Cycling Championships
- 2nd Overall Redlands Cycling Classic
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Montréal World Cup
- 2nd Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix
- 2nd Overall Tour de Toona
- 1st stage 1
- 2008
- 1st Stage 4 Mount Hood Classic
- 1st Stage 1 Krasna Lipa Tour Féminine
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) & 3 Giro della Toscana
- 2nd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Prologue
- 2nd Overall Giro del Trentino
- 2nd National Time Trial Championships
- 3rd Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 1st Stage 1
- 2009
- 2nd Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 3rd Boulder Criterium
- 3rd Overall Emakumeen Bira
- 2010
- 1st
National Road Cycling Championships
- 1st
Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st Stages 8 & 9
- 1st Overall Cascade Classic
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st
Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Overall Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
- 1st Stage 4
- 3rd National Time Trial Championships
- 2011
- 2nd Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stage 1
- 10th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 2013
- 1st Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Stage 3 Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st
Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stages 1 & 5
- 1st
Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st Stages 5 and 6
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Cascade Classic
- 2014
- 1st Grand Prix de Oriente
- 1st
Overall Vuelta a El Salvador
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st
Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stages 1 & 5
- 2015
- 1st
Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st
Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stages 1 & 5
- 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 1st Stage 9
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Tour of the Gila
- 1st Stages 1 & 5
- 1st Stage 5 Giro d'Italia Femminile
- 4th Olympic road race
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Mara Abbott". USA Cycling. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ↑ Frattini, Kirsten (15 April 2016). "The who's who of elite women in American bike racing". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mara-abbott-announces-retirement-from-professional-cycling/
- ↑ "World-class cyclist credits Whitman for start". Whitman College. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ "2007 Biography of Mara Abbott". Webcor Builders. Archived from the original on 22 August 2012. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Press release (2007-08-30). "National Magazines Turn Spotlight on Whitman Cycling Phenom". Whitman College. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Press release (2007-09-27). "Mara Abbott '08 places ninth in Italian stage race; prepares for World Championship race". Whitman College. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
- ↑ "Mara Abbott Biography" (PDF). HTC-Highroad Women. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Press release (2010-07-11). "Mara Abbott 1st American to win overall Giro Donne". USA Cycling. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Caley Fretz (2010-07-11). "Mara Abbott becomes first American to win Giro Donne, Shelley Evans takes final stage". VeloNews. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Brian Holcombe (2010-07-25). "Abbott and Sutherland secure Cascade Cycling Classic wins after final road race". VeloNews. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Greg Johnson (2010-05-18). "Abbot victorious in Osseja". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Stephen Farrand (2010-05-23). "Emma Pooley wins Tour de l'Aude". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Ben Atkins (2010-09-23). "Transfer News: Mara Abbott signs for Safi-Pasta Zara". Velonation.com. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Kirsten Frattini (2011-04-27). "Abbott, Mancebo prevail on windy Mogollon stage". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Cycling News (2011-05-02). "Mancebo wins final stage and overall at Gila". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ "Mara Abbott clinches title in 2013 Giro Rosa". VeloNews.com.
- ↑ Weislo, Laura (7 September 2013). "Abbott, Tamayo and Powers to headline new UnitedHealthcare women's team". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
- ↑ "Mara Abbott and Anna Christian sign for Wiggle Honda in 2015". wigglehonda.com.
- ↑ Kris Thompson (2010-03-23). "Yoga with Mara Abbott". 303cycling.com. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
- ↑ Profile at Cycling Archives; Profile at Cycling Quotient
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