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.jpg) Penton at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Sara Marie Penton |
| Born | (1988-11-15) 15 November 1988 (age 36) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team | |
| 2015 | De Jonge Renner |
| Professional teams | |
| 2016 | Lares–Waowdeals |
| 2017–2019 | Team VéloCONCEPT |
| 2020–2021 | Drops |
Sara Marie Penton (born 15 November 1988) is a Swedish former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2016 and 2021 for the Lares–Waowdeals, Team Virtu Cycling and Drops–Le Col teams.
Career
A former football player who retired from that sport at around 18 years old in 2006 due to medical issues with her knees, Penton started her first cycling race in 2013. She had begun to take cycling seriously for the first time in 2011 whilst working in a bike shop, completing the 300-kilometre (190-mile) Vätternrundan sportive the same year. In 2017, Penton won the Swedish National Road Race Championships, becoming the first rider other than Emma Johansson and Emilia Fahlin – neither of whom raced the 2017 edition – to win the race in seven years. Penton retired from competition at the end of the 2021 season.
Major results
- 2015
- 9th Trofee Maarten Wynants
- 9th Erondegemse Pijl
- 2017
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 2018
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
See also
References
- "Team Virtu Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- "Drops". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
- "Drops-Le Col supported by Tempur". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
- "About Sara". 29 September 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- "Women's Cycling Profiles: Sara Penton". ProCyclingUK.
- "National Road Championships – Sweden". UCI. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- Timms, Joe (18 October 2021). "Who is retiring from pro cycling in 2021?". Rouleur. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
External links
- Sara Penton at UCI
- Sara Penton at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Sara Penton at ProCyclingStats
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