Lotta Pauliina Henttala (née Lepistö; born 28 June 1989) is a Finnish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF Education–Cannondale.[7] She has won the Finnish National Road Race Championships seven times, consecutively between 2012 and 2018.
.jpg) Henttala at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Lotta Pauliina Henttala |
| Born | Lotta Pauliina Lepistö 28 June 1989 Noormarkku, Finland |
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | EF Education–Cannondale |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter[1] |
| Amateur team | |
| 2022 | Henttala Development Team |
| Professional teams | |
| 2014–2018 | Bigla Cycling Team[2] |
| 2019–2020 | Trek–Segafredo[3] |
| 2021 | Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling[4][5] |
| 2023 | AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step[6] |
| 2024– | EF Education–Cannondale |
| Major wins | |
UCI Women's WorldTour
| |
Medal record | |
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Career
She competed in swimming and triathlon alongside cycling in her youth, before focusing on cycling after becoming Finnish Under-16 road racing champion.[1] 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 AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step.[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
- 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
- 1st
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
References
External links
- Lotta Lepistö at UCI
- Lotta Lepistö at Cycling Archives
- Lotta Lepistö at ProCyclingStats
- Lotta Lepistö at Cycling Quotient
- Lotta Lepistö at CycleBase
