Lotta Henttala Explained

Lotta Henttala
Fullname:Lotta Pauliina Henttala
Birth Name:Lotta Pauliina Lepistö
Birth Date:28 June 1989
Birth Place:Noormarkku, Finland
Height:1.64m
Weight:58kg
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Ridertype:Sprinter[1]
Amateuryears1:2022
Amateurteam1:Henttala Development Team
Proyears1:2014–2018
Proteam1:[2]
Proyears2:2019–2020
Proteam2:[3]
Proyears3:2021
Proteam3:[4] [5]
Proyears4:2023
Proteam4:[6]
Proyears5:2024–
Majorwins:UCI Women's WorldTour

Gent–Wevelgem (2017)

Open de Suède Vårgårda (2017)One-day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships (2014–2018)

Dwars door Vlaanderen (2017)

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Lotta Pauliina Henttala (née Lepistö; born 28 June 1989) is a Finnish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team .[7] 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. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence.[8] She qualified to represent Finland at the 2020 Summer Olympics,[9] but did not compete due to pregnancy.[10] After not competing professionally during the 2022 season, Henttala will return to the professional peloton in 2023 with UCI Women's Continental Team .[11]

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.[12] 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".[13]

Personal life

In October 2019, she married fellow professional cyclist Joonas Henttala,[14] and their first child – a son – was born in January 2022.[15]

Major results

Source:[16]

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
    2024
  • 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Lotta Lepistö . . 26 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160607010104/http://www.bpct.ch/staff-page/lotta-lepisto/ . 7 June 2016 . dead.
    2. Web site: Lotta Lepistö. cyclingnews.com. 17 March 2015.
    3. News: Trek-Segafredo announce official 2019 rosters for men and women. Trek Bicycle Corporation. Intrepid Corporation. 27 December 2018. 7 March 2019.
    4. Web site: Ceratizit – WNT Pro Cycling Team. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 19 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210119224825/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15406/1002131/277. 19 January 2021.
    5. News: 14 riders, 11 re-signings, 9 nationalities, and 3 new riders complete the roster for CERATIZIT WNT Pro Cycling for 2021.. . Ceratizit Deutschland GmbH. 11 November 2020. 11 November 2020.
    6. Web site: AG INSURANCE – SOUDAL QUICK-STEP TEAM. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 9 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230209151102/https://www.uci.org/team-details/18516. 9 February 2023.
    7. Web site: EF Education - Cannondale. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. April 1, 2024.
    8. Web site: Final Results / Résultats finaux: Road Race Women Elite / Course en ligne femmes élite. Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. 28 September 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131012063031/http://cycling.sportresult.com/results/cr/2013/WM/11RES00.pdf. 12 October 2013. dead.
    9. Web site: 22 March 2021. Tokio 2020: Suomen joukkueen olympiapaikat, karsintojen aikataulut ja kisoihin valitut urheilijat. 11 April 2021. mtvuutiset.fi. fi.
    10. News: Riku. Porvari. Tuulia. Kössö. Ammattipyöräilijä Lotta Henttala odottaa esikoistaan, eikä lähde Tokion olympialaisiin – "Voin sitten mennä seuraaviin, jos siltä tuntuu". Finnish. 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. Yleisradio Oy. 7 July 2021. 17 February 2022.
    11. News: Issy. Ronald. Lotta Henttala returns to racing with AG Insurance-NXTG after maternity leave. Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 12 September 2022. 24 December 2022.
    12. Web site: Frattini . Kirsten . 2023-07-28 . Lotta Henttala disqualified from Tour de France Femmes . 2023-07-29 . cyclingnews.com . 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..
    13. Web site: Frattini . Kirsten . 2023-07-29 . Lotta Henttala: I did not hold on to the car . 2023-07-30 . cyclingnews.com.
    14. News: Häähumua! Pyöräilijä Lotta Lepistön häistä julkaistiin upea ajokuva – koirillakin rusetti kaulassa. Finnish. Wedding festivities! Cyclist Lotta Lepistö's wedding featured a great movie – even dogs with a bow on the neck. 26 October 2019. 15 January 2020. Iltalehti. Alma Media. Jussi. Valli.
    15. News: Juuso. Taipale. Poika tuli! Lotta ja Joonas Henttala saivat perheenlisäystä. Finnish. The boy came! Lotta and Joonas Henttala received family support. 13 January 2022. 17 February 2022. Iltalehti. Alma Media.
    16. Web site: Lotta Henttala. FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. 24 December 2022.

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