Rider Profile
Chloe Dygert
Canyon-Sram
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2024 - Canyon-Sram
- 2023 - Canyon-Sram
- 2022 - Canyon-SRAM Racing
- 2021 - Canyon-Sram Racing
- 2019 - Sho-Air Twenty20
- 2018 - Twenty20 p/b Sho-Air
- 2017 - Sho-Air Twenty20
- 2016 - Twenty16 - Ridebiker
Biography:
USA’s Chloe Dygert is one of the fastest women on two wheels, accumulating four road World titles and seven track World Titles since 2015. Along the way, she overcame a plethora of health issues which may have kept other mortals away from comebacks.
Born on January 1, 1997 in Brownsburg, Indiana, Dygert began her athletic career in basketball like most other youngsters in her part of the US. She turned to cycling in 2015 and immediately won the women’s junior time trial and road race titles. Three months later with Team USA, she swept both events at the World Championships for junior women.
The following season Dygert signed with US Continental team TWENTY16-Ridebiker, where as a 19-year-old she won the youth classification at her first Women’s WorldTour event, Amgen Tour of California. On the track, she helped Team USA to a gold medal in the Team Pursuit at the World Championships and earned a silver medal in the same discipline at the Rio Olympic Games.
Across 2017 and 2018, Dygert earned four gold medals at Track World Championships - twice in Team Pursuit and twice in Individual Pursuit. She would later score the double again in 2020, setting a world record in Berlin for the Individual Pursuit title.
It was in 2019 at 22 that Dygert had her most prolific year on the road, in 23 race days, scoring 18 top five placings across 23 race days. This included a sweep of stage wins for the GC title at the 2.1-level Colorado Classic and her first elite women’s time trial title at the World Championships, a dominant performance ahead of Anna van der Breggen, Annemiek van Vleuten and compatriot Amber Neben.
2020 was marred by Dygert’s horrific downhill crash at the World Championships in Imola when she went off course into a metal barrier which lacerated and partially severed her left quadriceps. However, in the off season she signed a four-year deal with Canyon-SRAM to move to the WorldTour and focused on building strength and endurance in her left leg.
Dygert surprised many by winning the 2021 US elite women’s ITT championship in June, and followed in July with seventh in the elite women’s race against the clock at the Tokyo Olympic Games. But she then suffered a series of health setbacks, from Epstein Barr virus and back problems, and in 2022 ended the year with heart surgery to treat tachycardia.
Her 2023 season began with a crash at team camp, where she damaged the same leg that was injured in 2020, so did not restart racing until May. She wasted no time in earning five podiums in her first pair of stage races before finishing second overall at RideLondon Classique. She then scored double national titles in June at the USA Cycling Road Championships and finished the year with a second women’s elite time trial world title. Her 2023 season also included another World title in the Individual Pursuit.
Key Results
2023
🥇 Road World Championships ITT
🥇 Track World Championships Individual Pursuit
🥇 US National Championships ITT and road race
🥇 One stage at RideLondon Classique
🥈 One stage and points classification at Giro d’Italia Donne
🥈 One stage and GC at RideLondon Classique
🥈 One stage at Vuelta a Burgos Feminas
🥈 One stage at La Vuelta Femenina
🥉 One stage at Giro d’Italia Donne
🥉 Two stages La Vuelta Femenina
2021
🥇 US National Championships ITT
2020
🥇 Track World Championships Team Pursuit
🥇 Track World Championships Individual Pursuit
2019
🥇 Road World Championships ITT
🥇 Four stages and GC at Colorado Classic
🥇 Pan American Road Championships ITT
🥇 Two stages and youth classification at Tour of the Gila
🥇 Two stages and GC at Joe Martin Stage Race
🥈 US National Championships ITT
2018
🥇 Track World Championships Team Pursuit
🥇 Track World Championships Individual Pursuit
🥇 Two stages at Tour of the Gila
🥇 One stage and youth classification at Joe Martin Stage Race
2017
🥇 Track World Championships Team Pursuit
🥇 Track World Championships Individual Pursuit
🥇 Pan American Road Championships ITT
2016
🥇 One stage and youth classification at Amgen Tour of California
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