Sara Penton
Penton at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships.
Personal information
Full nameSara Marie Penton
Born (1988-11-15) 15 November 1988
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur team
2015De Jonge Renner
Professional teams
2016Lares–Waowdeals
2017–2019Team VéloCONCEPT[1]
2020–2021Drops[2][3]

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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] Penton retired from competition at the end of the 2021 season.[7]

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

  1. ↑ "Team Virtu Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "Drops". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "Drops-Le Col supported by Tempur". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  4. ↑ "About Sara". Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Women's Cycling Profiles: Sara Penton". ProCyclingUK.
  6. ↑ "National Road Championships – Sweden". UCI. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  7. ↑ Timms, Joe (18 October 2021). "Who is retiring from pro cycling in 2021?". Rouleur. Retrieved 24 December 2021.


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