Emma Johansson
 Emma Johansson at the 2016 Swedish National Road Race Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Emma Karolina Johansson |
| Nickname | Silver Emma[1][2] |
| Born |
23 September 1983 Sollefteå, Sweden |
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) |
| 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 | |
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Stage races
One day races
Other | |
Medal record
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Emma Johansson (born 23 September 1983[3]) is a Swedish retired professional racing cyclist. Nicknamed Silver Emma, Johansson accumulated a large number of 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] as well as one silver and two bronze medals at the Road World championships. She also holds a record four podium finishes at the women's Tour of Flanders, with one second and three third places.[6] Despite her amassment of podium places, she won several one-day races, including Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Ronde van Drenthe, Trofeo Alfredo Binda, Omloop van het Hageland, Le Samyn and the Holland Hills Classic.
Johansson was also successful in stage races. She won the Thüringen Rundfahrt three times, the Emakumeen Euskal Bira twice and the Belgium Tour once. In addition, she won one stage in the 2012 Giro Rosa and finished in the top ten in all three of her Giro Rosa participations.[7]
Biography
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 and 9th in the Tour of Flanders.[8]
On 10 August 2008, Emma Johansson won the silver medal in the women's road race at the Beijing Olympics. She followed an attack by Tatiana Guderzo, at 13 km from the finish, which brought her in the lead group with Nicole Cooke, Christiane Soeder and Linda Villumsen. Britain's Nicole Cooke won the event in the five-woman sprint, Johansson claimed the silver ahead of Guderzo.[9] 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.[10][11] 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.[12]
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.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in 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.[13]
Personal life
On 8 January 2011, she married the former Norwegian cyclist Martin Vestby (in Swedish), who is also her personal manager. They live in Zingem, Belgium, and have one son, born on 11 April 2018.[14]
Career highlights
Source:[15]
- 2008
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd National Road Race Championships
- 2nd
- 2009
- 1st Ronde van Drenthe
- 2nd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 2nd La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal
- 2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 2010
- 1st
- 1st Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
- 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 1st GP Mameranus
- 2nd Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo
- 3rd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 3rd World Championships road race
- 3rd GP de Plouay
- 3rd Open de Suède Vargarda
- 2011
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Cholet Pays de Loire Dames
- 1st Omloop van het Hageland
- 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2nd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
- 1st Stage 3b
- 2nd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
- 2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 2nd GP Stad Roeselare
- 3rd GP Ciudad de Valladolid
- 3rd Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs
- 2012
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Overall Tour de Free State
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
- 6th Olympic Road race
- 2013
- 1st UCI World Ranking
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1 & 5
- 1st Cholet Pays de Loire Dames
- 2nd GP de Plouay
- 2nd Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup
- 2nd UCI Road Race World Championships
- 2nd Tour of Flanders
- 2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 2nd Draai van de Kaai
- 3rd World Cup, Ronde van Drenthe
- 2014
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Cholet Pays de Loire Dames
- 1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda
- 1st Le Samyn
- 1st Boels Rental Hills Classic
- 1st Stage 6 Holland Ladies Tour
- 2nd Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup
- 2nd Overall The Women's Tour
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2nd Omloop van het Hageland
- 3rd UCI Road Race World Championships
- 3rd Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen)
- 3rd Emakumeen Saria
- 2015
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
- 2nd Boels Rental Hills Classic
- 2nd GP de Plouay
- 3rd Overall Emakumeen Euskal Bira
- 3rd Le Samyn des Dames
- 2016
- 1st
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st
- 2nd
- 2nd Tour of Flanders
- 3rd Strade Bianche
Results timelines
| Grand Tour results timeline | |||||||||||||
| Stage race | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giro d'Italia Femminile | — | — | — | — | — | — | 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 | — | — | — | — | 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 | |||||||||
| Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen | — | — | — | 6 | 5 | DNF | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 9 | |
| Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour | Race did not exist | 3 | 6 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||
| Ladies Tour of Norway | Race did not exist | 6 | 7 | — | |||||||||
| Holland Ladies Tour | — | — | — | — | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | — | 5 | — | 11 | |
| Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | |
| Classics results timeline | |||||||||||||
| classic | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | — | — | 3 | 40 | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | 9 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 2 | |
| Trofeo Alfredo Binda - Comune di Cittiglio | — | — | — | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | |
| La Flèche Wallonne | — | — | — | 12 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 7 | |
| Major championships timeline | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Time trial | Not held | 21 | Not held | 14 | Not held | — | |||||||
| Road race | 2 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||||
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Time trial | — | — | 26 | 14 | — | 11 | 14 | 12 | 10 | — | 17 | — | |
| Road race | 100 | 63 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 49 | ||
References
- 1 2 ""Silver-Emma" kan byta till ny gren". Aftonbladet. 29 August 2016.
- ↑ "Emma Johansson tog OS-silver i Rio". Expressen. 7 August 2016.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 September 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2008.
- ↑ "Ranking - Cycling - Road 2013 Women Elite UCI Ranking Individual: Final result". UCI. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ↑ "Cooke wins women's road cycling race". Associated Press. 10 August 2008. Archived from the original on 12 August 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2008.
- ↑ "Tour of Flanders wins for Sagan and Armitstead - Weekend Wrap". Cyclingnews. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ↑ "Johansson tops Vos in final Giro Donne stage". Cyclingnews. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ↑ Atkins, Ben; Decaluwé, Brecht. "Arndt takes the Flanders High Road". autobus.cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ↑ Atkins, Ben. "Britain's Cooke fulfils her Olympic destiny. Silver and bronze for Johansson and Guderzo". autobus.cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ↑ "Stage 5 > Cosne-sur-Loire - Cosne-sur-Loire". Cyclingfever.com. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ↑ "Trophée d'Or Féminin 2008". cyclingfever.com. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ↑ "Cooke strikes gold again". VeloNews. 2008-09-27. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/johansson-joins-wiggle-honda-for-2016-season/
- ↑ Johansson, Emma. "MEET MORRIS". emmajohansson.com. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ↑ Profile at Cycling Quotient
- ↑ Gustav Sveidquist (23 July 2015). "Emma Johansson cyklade hem Thüringen runt" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
External links
- Official website
- Emma Johansson at Cycling Archives