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Teenaged Dygert’s talent still seems limitless
- Updated: May 24, 2016
SACRAMENTO, California (VN) — The meteoric rise of Chloe Dygert has been detailed with myriad superlatives. But from coaches to competitors, the 19-year-old rider’s talents are also often described succinctly — “she’s an engine.”
Dygert, the former Indiana high school basketball player, finished sixth in the general classification Sunday in the four-day women’s Amgen Tour of California. While claiming the best young rider classification, she also finished 59 seconds behind race winner Megan Guarnier.
Dygert placed 29th in the opening stage in South Lake Tahoe. Her Twenty16 – Ridebiker squad then claimed stage 2, the team team trial in Folsom. Dygert finished eighth in the stage 3 road race in Santa Rosa and 15th in the main field in same time as stage 4 circuit race winner Kirstin Wild.
It was Dygert’s first UCI WorldTour race, and it occurred eight months after her junior double gold medals at the world championships in Richmond, Virginia, and two months after her third world title, a team win in the UCI Track World Championships in London. Dygert, Kelly Catlin, Jennifer Valente, and Sarah Hammer claimed the team pursuit gold medal. The winning quartet was …
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