Emma Karolina Johansson (born 23 September 1983[3]) is a Swedish retired professional racing cyclist. Nicknamed Silver Emma, Johansson accumulated many second and third places at major championships and one-day classics.[1] In 2013 she finished the year as number one on the UCI Women's World Ranking.[4]
Swedish cyclist
For the Swedish orienteer, see Emma Johansson (orienteer).
Emma Johansson
Johansson at the 2016 Swedish National Road Race Championships
(1983-09-23) 23 September 1983 (age39) Sollefteå, Sweden
Height
1.67m (5ft 6in)
Weight
58kg (128lb)
Team information
Currentteam
Retired
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Ridertype
All-rounder
Professional teams
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
Stage races
Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen (2011, 2013, 2015)
Emakumeen Euskal Bira (2013, 2016)
Belgium Tour (2015)
One day races
National Road Race Championships (2010–2012, 2014–2016)
National Time Trial Championships (2005, 2007–2008, 2012–2016)
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio (2014)
Ronde van Drenthe (2009)
Other
UCI World Ranking (2013)
Medal record
Women's road cycling
Representing Sweden
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing
Road race
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Road race
World Championship
2013 Toscana
Road race
2010 Geelong
Road race
2014 Ponferrada
Road race
Orica–AIS
World Championship
2014 Ponferrada
Team time trial
2013 Toscana
Team time trial
She won the silver medal in the women's road race at both the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics,[5][6] as well as one silver and two bronze medals at the Road World championships. She also holds a record four podium finishes at the Tour of Flanders for Women, with one second and three third places.[7] Despite her amassing of podium places, she won several one-day races, including Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Ronde van Drenthe, Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio, Omloop van het Hageland, Le Samyn and the Holland Hills Classic.
Johansson was also successful in stage races. She won the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen three times, the Emakumeen Euskal Bira twice and the Belgium Tour once. In addition, she won one stage in the 2012 Giro d'Italia Femminile and finished in the top ten in all three of her Giro d'Italia Femminile participations.[8]
Biography
Emma Johansson in 2005
Early life and amateur career
Emma Johansson was born in Sollefteå, in northern Sweden. She engaged in cross-country skiing with the Sollefteå Ski Club at an early age, before taking an interest in mountainbiking through her older brother. She trained on military training fields, close to her house, which offered dirt roads and illuminated trails. She won her first silver medal in 1996, at the age of 12, at the Swedish national mountainbike championships in Uddevalla.
2008
Johansson's breakthrough year was 2008. She signed with AA-Drink Cycling Team and had a successful spring classics campaign, claiming third place at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, 7th at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio and 9th in the Tour of Flanders.[9] On 10 August, Johansson won the silver medal in the women's road race at the Beijing Olympics. She followed an attack by Tatiana Guderzo, at 13 kilometres (8.1 miles) from the finish, which brought her in the lead group with Nicole Cooke, Christiane Soeder and Linda Villumsen. Cooke won the event in the five-woman sprint, Johansson claimed the silver ahead of Guderzo.[10] Three day later, she placed 21st in the women's time trial.
After the Summer Olympics, she claimed the general classification of the Trophée d'Or Féminin after she won the fifth stage in a six-woman breakaway.[11][12] At the World Championships Road Race in Florence, Johansson was again in a winning five-woman breakaway after she followed an attack of Marianne Vos. The race, like the Olympic road race, was won by Nicole Cooke, who beat Vos in the sprint. Johansson finished fourth.[13]
2009
After finishing 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 was the second Swedish cyclist to wear the UCI World Cup leader jersey after Susanne Ljungskog.
Post-2009
At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in the women's road race finishing 6th and in the women's time trial finishing 14th.
In August 2015, it was announced that Johansson would join Wiggle High5 on a two-year deal.[14]
Personal life
On 8 January 2011, she married the former Norwegian cyclist Martin Vestby[sv], who is also her personal manager. They live in Zingem, Belgium, and have two children: a son born in April 2018,[15] and a daughter born in April 2020.[16]
Johansson at the 2015 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen; she won the race for the third time in five years, equalling Judith Arndt's record of overall race victories.
Johansson, Emma. "MEET MORRIS". emmajohansson.com. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
Bergström, Kristoffer (16 October 2020). "Emma Johansson: Som om världen rasade"[Emma Johansson: As if the world was collapsing]. Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Lena K. Samuelsson, Schibsted. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
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