Chloé Dygert was born on January 1, 1997, and is an American professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI Women’s WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM.
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She has won seven gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and a silver medal at the Olympic Games.
She also won the Women’s junior road race and Women’s junior time trial at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships.
In March 2016, Dygert started at the World Cup in London as a member of the US four-in-four team pursuit and won the world title with the team.
In the same year, nineteen-year-old Dygert was nominated to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she won a silver medal in the team pursuit.
The head coach, Andy Sparks, was fired for fostering a hostile environment. Dygert supported Sparks and continued to work with him until 2018.
At the 2017 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong, she became World Champion in the team pursuit for the second time, along with Kelly Catlin, Jennifer Valente, and Kimberly Geist, and clinched the world title in the singles pursuit.
In May 2017, she won her first Panamerican title, in the individual time trial on the road.
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At the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Dygert won two titles: along with Kelly Catlin, Jennifer Valente and Kimberly Geist in the team pursuit and in the individual pursuit.
She succeeded in the victory in the individual pursuit in an outstanding manner: she set a world record two times in a row, in the qualification as well as in the final (3:20.060 minutes).
In the Pan American Games in 2019 she won gold in the individual time trial.
That November, Dygert signed a four-year contract with UCI Women’s WorldTeam Canyon–SRAM, from the 2021 season.
Is Chloe Dygert still married?
What happened to Chloe Dygert?
Dygert crashed into the guardrail and skidded down a steep grassy pitch, and the gash to her thigh resulted in extensive blood loss. It took Dygert nine months before she was sufficiently recovered to ride again.
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