Emma Johansson in November 2015
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Emma Johansson |
Born |
Sollefteå, Sweden |
23 September 1983
Team information | |
Current team | Wiggle High5 |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional team(s) | |
2005–2006 | Bizkaia Panda software Durango |
2007 | Vlaanderen–Capri Sonne–T-Interim |
2008 | AA-Drink Cycling Team |
2009–2010 | Red Sun Cycling Team |
2011–2012 | HiTec Products-UCK |
2013–2015 | Orica-AIS |
2016– | Wiggle High5 |
Major wins | |
UCI Womens World Cup Stage races
One day races
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Medal record
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UCI Womens World Cup
Stage races
One day races
Emma Johansson (born 23 September 1983 in Sollefteå) is a Swedish professional racing cyclist. She won the silver medal in the women's road race at both the 2008 and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
After having finished second in the 2009 Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio and third in Ronde van Vlaanderen, she won the Ronde van Drenthe and took the overall lead of the UCI Women's Road World Cup, a lead which she kept after another second place in La Flèche Wallonne Féminine. Johansson is the second Swedish cyclist to have worn the UCI World Cup leader jersey after Susanne Ljungskog.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in women's road race finishing 6th and in the women's time trial finishing 14th.
On 8 January 2011, she married the former Norwegian cyclist Martin Vestby, who is also her personal manager.
In August 2015, it was announced that Johansson would join Wiggle High5 on a two-year deal.
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