Chloé Dygert Explained

Chloé Dygert
Birth Date:1 January 1997
Birth Place:Brownsburg, Indiana, U.S.
Fullname:Chloé Dygert
Height:5 ft 9 in[1]
Weight:147 lb
Role:Rider
Amateuryears1:2020
Proyears1:2016–2019
Proteam1:[2]
Proyears2:2021–
Majorwins:
RoadOne-day races and Classics
  • World Time Trial Championships (2019, 2023)
    Track
  • Olympic Games
  • Team pursuit (2024)
  • World Championships
  • Individual pursuit (2017, 2018, 2020, 2023)
  • Team pursuit (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)

    • Chloé Dygert (; born January 1, 1997)[3] is an American professional racing cyclist[4] who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .[5] She has won eight gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and four medals (one gold, one silver, and two bronze) 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.[6]

    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.[7] Dygert supported Sparks and continued to work with him until 2018.[8]

    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.[9]

    On September 24, 2020, at the UCI Road World Championships, Dygert crashed during the women's time trial event,[10] suffering a laceration to her left leg which required surgery.[11] That November, Dygert signed a four-year contract with UCI Women's WorldTeam, from the 2021 season.[12]

    Personal life

    In November 2016, she married fellow professional cyclist Logan Owen and took his surname.[13] The marriage ended in divorce in January 2020.[14]

    As of April 2024, Dygert was in a relationship with Axel Merckx, with whom she was living in Belgium.[15]

    A 2020 profile by her sponsor Red Bull noted that she is a conservative who does not believe in feminism.[16]

    Dygert issued a public apology in November 2020 for her social media conduct that was deemed inappropriate.[17] Some criticized her apology as "not sufficient".[18]

    Career achievements

    Major results

    Road

    2013
  • National Amateur Championships
  • 3rd Road race
  • 3rd Time trial
    2015
  • UCI World Junior Championships
  • 1st Road race
  • 1st Time trial
  • National Amateur Championships
  • 1st Road race
  • 1st Time trial
    2016
  • 6th Overall Tour of California
  • 1st Young rider classification
  • 1st Stage 2 (TTT)
    2017
  • 1st Time trial, Pan American Championships
  • 4th Time trial, UCI World Championships
    2018
  • Tour of the Gila
  • 1st Stages 2 & 3 (ITT)
  • 2nd Chrono Kristin Armstrong
  • 6th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
  • 1st Young rider classification
  • 1st Stage 4
    2019
  • 1st Time trial, UCI World Championships
  • 1st Time trial, Pan American Games
  • 1st Overall Colorado Classic
  • 1st Points classification
  • 1st Mountains classification
  • 1st Young rider classification
  • 1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 4
  • 1st Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
  • 1st Points classification
  • 1st Mountains classification
  • 1st Young rider classification
  • 1st Stages 1 & 4
  • 1st Chrono Kristin Armstrong
  • 2nd Overall Tour of the Gila
  • 1st Young rider classification
  • 1st Stages 3 (ITT) & 4
  • National Championships
  • 2nd Time trial
  • 4th Road race
    2021
  • 1st Time trial, National Championships
  • 7th Time trial, Olympic Games
    2023
  • 1st Time trial, UCI World Championships
  • National Championships
  • 1st Road race
  • 1st Time trial
  • 2nd Overall RideLondon Classique
  • 1st Stage 2
  • 4th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
    2024
  • UCI World Championships
  • 2nd Road race
  • 3rd Time trial
  • 2nd Classic Lorient Agglomération
  • 3rd Time trial, Olympic Games
  • 6th Classic Brugge–De Panne

    Track

    2016
  • 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
  • 2nd Team pursuit, Olympic Games
    2017
  • UCI World Championships
  • 1st Individual pursuit
  • 1st Team pursuit
  • UCI World Cup
  • 1st Individual pursuit, Los Angeles
  • 1st Team pursuit, Los Angeles
    2018
  • UCI World Championships
  • 1st Team pursuit
  • 1st Individual pursuit
    2019
  • 1st Team pursuit, Pan American Championships
    2020
  • UCI World Championships
  • 1st Team pursuit
  • 1st Individual pursuit
    2021
  • 3rd Team pursuit, Olympic Games
    2023
  • 1st Individual pursuit, UCI World Championships
    2024
  • 1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
  • 2nd Individual pursuit, UCI World Championships

    World records

    Event Record Date Meet Location Ref
    3:17.283 February 29, 2020 Berlin, Germany [19]
    3:16.937

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Chloé Dygert . https://web.archive.org/web/20160708044002/http://www.teamusa.org/usa-cycling/athletes/Chloe-Dygert . dead . July 8, 2016 . teamusa.org . . November 9, 2019.
    2. News: Sho-Air TWENTY20 Announces 2019 Roster with 4 Canadians . CanadianCyclist.com . Canadian Cyclist . January 16, 2019 . March 9, 2019.
    3. Web site: DYGERT Chloe . . 8 August 2024.
    4. Web site: Chloe Dygert . March 3, 2016 . Cycling Archives.
    5. Web site: Canyon//SRAM Racing . UCI.org . . January 10, 2021 . https://archive.today/20210110214752/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15267/1002004/281 . January 10, 2021.
    6. Web site: 19-year-old Chloe Dygert ready to chase gold at Rio Olympics NBC Olympics. https://web.archive.org/web/20160804164648/http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/19-year-old-chloe-dygert-ready-chase-gold-rio-olympics . August 4, 2016 . August 4, 2016. September 25, 2019.
    7. Web site: Laura . Weislo . March 3, 2017 . USA women's team pursuit coach dismissed from program after SafeSport complaint . October 1, 2020 . cyclingnews.com . en.
    8. Web site: June 8, 2017 . Dygert Owen's fierce drive and pure talent a golden combination . October 1, 2020 . VeloNews.com.
    9. Web site: Chloé Dygert . Red Bull . September 25, 2019.
    10. News: Road World Championships: Chloe Dygert has leg surgery after crash . BBC Sport . September 25, 2020 . September 25, 2020.
    11. Web site: Frattini . Kirsten . September 24, 2020 . Chloe Dygert crashes out of time trial at Imola World Championships . September 24, 2020 . CyclingNews.
    12. News: Kirsten . Frattini . Chloe Dygert makes surprise transfer to Canyon-SRAM in 2021 . . . November 10, 2020 . November 10, 2020.
    13. News: Owen cycling success 'almost overwhelming' . . . December 19, 2016 . January 2, 2018 . John . Becerra Jr. . She also got married to fellow standout pro cyclist and Bremerton native Logan Owen a little over a month ago..
    14. News: Cyclists Kate Courtney and Chloé Dygert Go for Gold . . Red Bull Bulletin . July 23, 2020 . September 23, 2020 . Neal . Rogers . This past January, the divorce was finalized..
    15. Web site: 'I want to be the best in the world' - sitting down with Chloé Dygert . August 2, 2024 . Cycling Weekly . August 2024.
    16. Web site: American Muscle . October 1, 2020 . Redbull.
    17. Web site: November 15, 2020 . Chloe Dygert apologises for social media conduct . November 17, 2020 . cyclingnews.com.
    18. Web site: November 27, 2020 . Rapha slams Chloé Dygert over social media conduct: 'An apology she issued was not sufficient' . August 19, 2021 . VeloNews.com.
    19. Web site: Chloe Dygert powers to new world record in gold-medal finale . Velonews.com . February 29, 2020 . March 1, 2020.

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