Personal information | |
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Full name | Emma Karolina Johansson |
Nickname | Silver Emma [1] [2] |
Born | Sollefteå, Sweden | 23 September 1983
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) |
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | 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
One day races
Other | |
Medal record |
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]
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]
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.
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]
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.
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]
On 8 January 2011, she married the former Norwegian cyclist Martin Vestby , who is also her personal manager. They live in Zingem, Belgium, and have two children. [15] [16]
Source: [17]
Grand Tour results timeline | |||||||||||||
Stage race | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
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Giro d'Italia Femminile | — | 47 | — | — | — | — | 7 | 5 | — | 10 | — | — | |
Stage race results timeline | |||||||||||||
Stage race | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin | — | — | — | 13 | 17 | 3 | Race did not exist | ||||||
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs | Race did not exist | — | 28 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 13 | |||
Tour of California | Race did not exist | — | 8 | ||||||||||
Emakumeen Euskal Bira | — | — | — | 14 | DNF | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | |
Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 6 | — | — | — | |
The Women's Tour | Race did not exist | 2 | 4 | 8 | |||||||||
Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen | — | — | — | 6 | 5 | DNF | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 9 | |
Belgium Tour | Race did not exist | — | 3 | 6 | 1 | 7 | |||||||
Ladies Tour of Norway | Race did not exist | 6 | 7 | — | |||||||||
Holland Ladies Tour | 78 | — | 9 | — | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | — | 5 | — | 11 | |
Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | DNF | — | — | — |
Classics results timeline | |||||||||||
Race | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
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Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | — | 3 | 40 | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 |
Tour of Flanders | 81 | 55 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 2 |
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio | — | 45 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | — | 4 |
La Flèche Wallonne | 68 | 34 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 7 |
Major championships timeline | ||||||||||||||||
Event | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
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Olympic Games | Time trial | Not held | — | Not held | 21 | Not held | 14 | Not held | — | |||||||
Road race | — | 2 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||||||
World Championships | Time trial | — | — | — | — | — | 26 | 14 | — | 11 | 14 | 12 | 10 | — | 17 | — |
Road race | — | — | — | 100 | 63 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 49 | |
National Championships | Time trial | 5 | — | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Road race | — | — | 4 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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